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Sunday Apr 15, 2012
  What’s so special about a country’s 64th birthday?   Well, in the case of most nations, perhaps not all that much, unless the country happens to be Israel, which celebrates its birthday this year on April 25 and 26.   Israel has the dubious distinction of being the only UN member state whose right to exist is regularly challenged, whose elimination from the world map is the aim of at least one other UN member...
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Sunday Mar 18, 2012
Here we go again.   First, it was the various “Freedom Flotillas” that tried to enter Hamas-controlled Gaza by sea.    Now it’s the “Global March to Jerusalem” (GMJ), slated for March 30th.   Whether by sea or land, the goals are the same: to provoke confrontations with Israel, give Israel a black eye in the world media, and pursue a strategy of delegitimizing Israel’s very right to exist...
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Tuesday Mar 06, 2012
The name Avi Shlaim may not be widely known on the street, but in the United Kingdom, and particularly in academic settings, it is.   An emeritus professor of international relations at Oxford University, he has been a prodigious writer on the Middle East.    When it comes to Israel, where he once lived, Shlaim can barely contain himself, throwing any semblance of scholarship to the wind and working himself into a lather at its...
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Sunday Feb 26, 2012
I don’t sleep well.    The prospect of an Iranian bomb keeps me up at night. And when coupled with the missile threat from Iran’s allies, Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as Syria should Assad stay in power (or perhaps even if he doesn’t), the danger to Israel – and the world – only grows, while the sleep diminishes further.   I happen to believe that, through tried-and-tested courage, ingenuity, and...
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Sunday Feb 19, 2012
Let’s begin with the tweets themselves.   From Narayan Lakshman, Washington-based correspondent for The Hindu, a prominent Indian left-of-center newspaper, to his foreign affairs editor in New Delhi, R.K. Krishnan, citing an article he wrote for the paper last week:   “India can seek oil elsewhere in West Asia: American Jewish Committee.”   From Krishnan:   “Will the Jews lend money to refurbish...
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