Civic Ventures Akbar Ahmed, left, and Judea Pearl, recipients of the new Purpose Prize for their campaign against intolerance and terrorism. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5 (JTA) – The father of slain Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl will share a prize…
read morehttp://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/19242/Civilization’s_Lament.html As the Hizbullah-Israel war wound down last week, pundits were quick to label winners and losers. Some said Hizbullah won because it survived, bombed Israel with 4,000 rockets, and earned the applause of the Arab “street.” Others maintain that…
read moreBEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 15 – As stunned Lebanese returned Tuesday over broken roads to shattered apartments in the south, it increasingly seemed that the beneficiary of the destruction was most likely to be Hezbollah. A major reason – in addition…
read moreThe UN Security Council ceasefire resolution is not so bad in theory but everything will depend on how it is implemented–and there are some very big problems on that front.There are two basic parts of the resolution. The introductory (“PP”)…
read moreThe kidnapping of an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, and an 18-year-old civilian, by the Palestinian group Hamas is not merely another incident in the long conflict but a turning point of tremendous importance.Why this is so should be very clear:–…
read moreEven the most ardent fans of acronyms will not recognize this one – BDS. That is, unless they are involved with peace movements concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. BDS means Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions. It has recently become a popular acronym…
read moreIsrael SeminarJerusalem Nov. 5 – 14, 2006a grass-roots program for community leadership Eight Days Learning the Intricacies of Middle East Peacehttp://IsraelSeminar.Info Nov. 5 – 14, 20068 days of learning in Israel, airfare, hotel, speakers, bus trips, two meals daily, and…
read moreThis weekend, as expected, and despite an international petition drive launched by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Britain’s National Association of Teachers in Higher and Further Education (NATHFE) voted to boycott Israeli academics. Theirs is a kinder, gentler…
read moreHow times change–or rather don’t. Back in 1971, Egypt’s leading journalist Muhammad Husanayn Heikal wrote, “There are only two well-defined goals on the Arab scene: erasing the traces of the 1967 aggression by Israel’s withdrawal from all the areas occupied…
read moreAccording to Hizbullah’s Al-Manar TV network, Professor Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) visited Hizbullah headquarters this week, meeting with the organization’s secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a Beirut suburb as well as with other Hizbullah leaders.…
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