The writer is a professor of economics at Ben-Gurion University and an SPME Member Instead of addressing the question of how Israeli soldiers should deal with terrorism, the critics of Professor Asa Kasher, whom they disparage as “the court philosopher,”…
read moreIn November, 2003, Sébastien Selam, a popular 23-year old Jewish DJ, known to his fans as DJ LamC, was murdered by an Arab neighbor. His throat was slit twice; his face was atrociously mutilated. The grisly crime was barely reported…
read moreInternational Court of Justice proceedings at the Hague, political statements by the International Red Cross, one-sided UN resolutions, and biased reports from nongovernmental organizations are all manifestations of how human rights norms are manipulated to demonize Israel. The international human…
read morePARIS, FRANCE – Two days after the murderous attack against the Number 14 bus in Jerusalem, and smack in the middle of the “off the wall” deliberations of the International Court at the Hague, France’s public channel France 2 broadcast…
read moreThe Palestinian Authority’s (PA) chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, is the latest PA official to demonstrate that PA leaders send one message to their people in Arabic and an entirely different message to the world media in English. This week’s news…
read morePhilip Carl Salzman is Professor of Anthropology at McGill University, author of Black Tents of Baluchistan, and a member of the Board of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Last fall (2003), after a long lapse, in a senior…
read moreA Wall as a Weapon by Noam Chomsky NYT February 23, 2004 Chomsky’s title speaks volumes: Israel builds a fence and in the words of the eloquent linguist it becomes a wall and a weapon. If Israel held out a…
read moreConsider the following information and then please stop and ask yourself some questions: . • Sunday’s suicide bombing of Jerusalem bus No. 14, has thus far resulted in at least 8 Israelis dead and 64 injured, 32 remain in the…
read moreIN A.D. 122, the Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered construction of a wall that would run 73 miles across the width of England, from the River Tyne to Solway Firth. The idea was to keep barbarians from making trouble for the…
read moreThe controversy was set in motion when Armitage’s comments were printed in Foothill’s student paper Jan. 28. In an interview with the Sentinel, Armitage said of Israeli treatment of Palestinians, “And what they’re doing with Palestinians every day? They’re killing…
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