SPME Research

Targeted killings can save lives

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,”…

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Israelis have no ‘human rights

International 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…

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PA Minister Saeb Erekat’s Duplicity:

The 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…

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DECONSTRUCTING CHOMSKY’S WAIL

A 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…

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Now Just A Minute!

Consider 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…

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Fencing out the Barbarians

IN 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…

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Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Misfortune

The 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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