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State Department Moves Jerusalem Out of Israel

May 25th, 2011

By Dan Miller Mohamed couldn’t move a mountain, but the State Department has no such difficulty with Jerusalem. Here is a news release issued by the U.S. Department of State: May 18, 2011 MEDIA NOTE Deputy Secretary Steinberg’s Visit to Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg visits Israel, Jerusalem [...]

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Tags: contiguous, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, peace process, State Department
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A Soft Spot for Jimmy Carter

April 26th, 2011

By Tom Carter My friend Dan Miller had some fun with Jimmy Carter in the article just below, and with good reason. In recent years, anyway, President Carter has behaved in questionable ways, particularly on issues involving Israel and the Palestinians. When he launches off to places like North Korea, explicitly criticizing sanctions and implicitly [...]

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Tags: DPRK, engineer, governor, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Navy, nuclear, Palestine
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Helen Thomas

June 12th, 2010

By Larry Ennis Having become a victim of old age myself, I have a certain affinity for Helen Thomas and old people in general. Never a fan of Thomas because of her liberal venom and self-righteousness, I should be delighted with her present predicament. I say “should” be, but in fact I’m far from it. [...]

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Tags: Helen Thomas, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, retirement
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Jimmy Carter and Israel

September 8th, 2009

On Sunday, September 6 The Washington Post published another article by former President Jimmy Carter on issues involving Israel and the Palestinians. Carter’s article reported on a trip he made to the region with several other people he referred to as “Elders,” people who in the past have shown no evenhandedness on Middle East issues. [...]

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Tags: Elliott Abrams, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Palestine, settlements, terrorism
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Will Obama Betray Israel?

July 7th, 2009

Jeff Robbins wrote an interesting review and commentary on a new book at The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal. Robbins’ comments are particularly relevant at a time when the Obama Administration, Democrats in general, and most of the media are taking a studied know-nothing approach to policy regarding Israel and problems in the Middle East. Despite [...]

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Tags: Israel, Obama, Palestine, peace process
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The World After Daniel Pearl

February 3rd, 2009

Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was murdered by islamist terrorists seven years ago this week. His cold-blooded murderer, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is a guest of the U.S. government at Guantanamo and the subject of humanitarian angst in some quarters. Judea Pearl, writing at Opinion Journal, wondered if his son would believe the way things have [...]

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Tags: Israel, Palestine, terrorism
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The NYT and Qaddafi

January 23rd, 2009

The New York Times doesn’t have much respect left, but they just lost some more. On January 21 they published a column attributed to Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan dictator with a history of supporting terrorism. Qaddafi proposes a “one-state” solution for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Beneath a thin veneer of moderate statements [...]

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Tags: Israel, Palestine, terrorism
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Religion and Conflict

January 9th, 2009

Comparative Religion is an academic field of study that’s particularly relevant to issues the world is struggling with today. In the broadest sense, it’s an attempt to understand religion by comparing beliefs, practices, histories, political and economic factors, and formal and informal structures. I’ve been at it for many years, mostly informally and self-directed. Everyone comes to the [...]

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Tags: Israel, Palestine, religion, terrorism
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Analysis of Israeli Action

January 8th, 2009

Time magazine published an interesting article today about the Israeli assault on Gaza and broader issues Israel faces, to include inevitable demographic pressures. Time’s analysis isn’t pro-Israel, but it’s more objective than might be expected. The article includes one statement that I strongly agree with: …there’s something tragic, too, in Israel’s predicament: in any confrontation with its [...]

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Tags: Arab, Israel, Palestine
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Israel-Palestine Videos

January 6th, 2009

The conflict in Gaza has widened the divide between people who support Israel and those who support the Palestinians. Others who try to remain in the middle are finding that where survival is concerned, there is no viable middle ground. Based on objective history and current reality, I find it impossible to accept moral equivalence arguments which hold that both sides are equally at fault [...]

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Tags: Israel, Palestine, terrorism
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Reality in Gaza

January 3rd, 2009

There are three items in the press that should be read by anyone interested in understanding the reality of the conflict now raging in Gaza. Alan Dershowitz has written an article in the Christian Science Monitor, ”Israel, Hamas, and Moral Idiocy.” Charles Krauthammer’s column in The Washington Post is headlined “Moral Clarity in Gaza.” The Boston Globe has published a [...]

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Tags: Israel, Palestine, terrorism
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