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…
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…
read moreShould the editors of the Globe & Mail be discharged for violating basic journalistic norms? You wont see this question in any instant newspaper or television poll, but it deserves to be asked. A single sentence, in the form of…
read morePrime Minister Ariel Sharon’s decision to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip may represent a historical watershed. Despite the chaotic manner in which the initiative was launched and unpleasant accompanying allegations concerning Sharon’s motives, most Israelis are desperate to separate…
read moreWhen Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon revealed his plan to evacuate Israeli settlements from Gaza and beyond, he was not simply shifting the focus away from the scandals facing his family. The investigations may have accelerated or delayed the process,…
read moreDear Mr. Prime Minister, The two articles below attest to a new and welcome trend in Palestinian Authority politics. The rank and file of party leaders are rebelling against Arafat and his Old Guard (his “outsiders” or “Tunis Gang”, as…
read moreWhen Ariel Sharon revealed his plan to evacuate Israeli settlements from Gaza and beyond, he was not simply shifting the focus away from the scandals facing his family. The investigations may have accelerated or delayed the process, but from an…
read moreTo the Editors, Today’s editorial, “Pragmatism and Peace” (SF Chron, 2/04/04) http://sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/04/EDGMO4NHAH1.DTL, is comprehensive, but it omits one crucial component of the formula for peace in the Middle East. Since 1937, the UK, the UN, Israel and/or the USA have…
read more(The Honorable Irwin Cotler, a Canadian MP when he wrote this article, is now Canada’s Minister of Justice). [This paper was originally published by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute in November 2002.] What we are witnessing today…is a new,…
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