SPME Research

Anti-Semitism in France

Madam, Sir, I am a French jewish journalist. I live in an apartment in a good neighborhood in Paris. I am the owner of the apartment. My parents are also owners of another apartment in the same building. They are…

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Explaining Islamic terror

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=107460907234 3&apage=2 ‘Anyone concerned with what’s happening in our world ought to spend some time reading the Koran.” Andy Rooney, the famed CBS commentator, gave this advice shortly after 9/11, as did plenty of others. His suggestion makes intuitive sense,…

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KEEP THE COURTS OUT OF THIS TERRITORY

(Ed Morgan is a law professor at the University of Toronto and a member of SPME. He also founded Canadian Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, a separate organization from SPME) Having denounced as illegal the building of a…

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Analysis: Regional arms control revisited

Wednesday’s meeting of the security cabinet to consider regional arms control issues was the first such discussion in many years. It was prompted by a number of developments, including Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi’s declaration that he would give up his…

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A chance to change the agenda?

http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=2231&s=1 The actions of the United Nations in leading the campaign to demonize Israel have also led to the organization’s decline in prestige and influence. Recently, the process accelerated with the General Assembly decision to refer Israel’s construction of a…

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Building a Palestinian “Peace Now” model

I heard so much about the Israeli organization Peace Now which was founded by 348 reserve officers of the Israeli military back in 1978. But it wasn’t until I attended a recent dinner hosted by it’s American support group that…

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