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July 25, 2006 (Dhaka): In a statement to the Overseas Correspondents Association of Bangladesh last week, Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan said, “We are deeply concerned over the current situation in the Middle East. We feel the world community should…
read moreIn addition to the release of the two soldiers abducted by Hizbullah, the declared objectives of Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon include the dismantling of Hizbullah’s militia and the deployment of the Lebanese armed forces up to the common border.…
read moreA “ceasefire” would occur should Hezbollah give back kidnapped Israelis and stop launching missiles; it would never follow a unilateral cessation of Israeli bombing. In fact, we will hear international calls for one only when Hezbollah’s rockets are about exhausted.…
read moreThe unconscious aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict “A rich combination of history, culture, religion, and psychology…A most engaging, articulate, and sensible overview that isremarkably nonpartisan.”-Library Journal (Pub Date: February 17, 2005; $35.00, 0-299-20250-X Cloth, Available for $23.10 from Amazon.com at…
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One of the many failings of our educational system is that it sends out into the world people who cannot tell rhetoric from reality. They have learned no systematic way to analyze ideas, derive their implications and test those implications…
read moreEver since the Hamas attack on the Israeli army post at Kerem Shalom in late June, the zeitgeist in Israel has been that the unilateral “disengagement” from Gaza was apparently a strategic mistake. When Hizbullah poured gasoline onto the fire…
read moreEdward H. Kaplan School of Management, Yale University; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University; Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yale University Charles A. Small Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, Institute for the Study of…
read moreIf by chance you have the search engine LexisNexis and you punch in the words “Israel” and “disproportionate,” you run the risk of blowing up your computer or darkening your entire neighborhood. Just limiting the search to newspapers and magazines…
read moreThe current round of hostilities between Israel and its enemies differs from prior ones in that it’s not an Arab-Israeli war, but one that pits Iran and its Islamist proxies, Hamas and Hizbullah, against Israel. This points, first, to the…
read moreDiscussions about security arrangements in Lebanon at the end of the war have included the proposal to station an international force in that country. Yet the UN has a very bad name in terms of confronting strong forces in areas…
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