Posts Tagged: palestinian
Justifying Murder: An Abomination
Even before the Middle Ages, we encountered marginal Jews who turned against their own people. Among apostates to Christianity, there were those who...
Al-Qaida Gains Strength in Sinai
At the height of the Iraq War, the U.S. intelligence agencies got hold of a secret letter dated July 9, 2005, written by...
Is the U.S. Willing to Fight Against Islamic Terrorism No Matter How Long, No Matter How Costly in Blood and Treasure?
In his address to Congress after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said it was "a...
Erekat’s Deceptive Numbers Game
That leaves the Palestinians with the more modest goal of obtaining a U.N. resolution that increases international acknowledgement of the 1967 lines as...
The Israel and Hamas Untenable Status Quo
Israel and Hamas are currently locked in a perpetual standoff. Hamas is emboldened by the flurry of international attention on the situation in Gaza, despite...
Root Causes Behind the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
On the surface, the current stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process seems illogical. After all, each side knows, with the exception of the Netanyahu...
The Legal Status of Israel’s Blockade
As Albert Einstein once sagely quipped, insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. The quote rightly applies to those who are...
He Said It, He Meant It, You Applauded It
The image of the AIPAC, as developed by its detractors (and secretly embraced by many gleeful Jews in US and Israel) is one of the sabre-toothed tiger,...
Bernard Henri Levy and Israel (part 2)
In my first blog post, you learnt about Bernard Henri Levy's lifelong pro-Israel comitment. As the Jewish State turns 63 and faces new major challenges,...
Retraction, Renunciation, Rejection, Repudiation: Reconsidering the Goldstone Report
At the close of a week heavy with international change, natural and political trauma, as the American nation awaited news about its economy and its...
Goldstone’s Apology and Samantha Power’s Problem with Israel
On my recent lecture tour in South Africa the subject of Judge Richard Goldstone came up quite a lot. Whether it was the dinner in...
The Goldstone Mea Culpa
One would surely have expected that when Richard Goldstone felt impelled to belatedly retract his previous appalling defamation of Israel, he might have selected a...
Netanyahu Demands Cancellation of Goldstone Report
At his April 3, 2011 cabinet meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on the Washington Post printed remarks of Judge Richard Goldstone, saying "There are very few...
Reagan’s Real Legacy
As Prepared for Delivery to the Leadership Program of the Rockies—March 11, 2011—Aurora, Colorado I want to talk about how we use our conservative principles;...
