Almost five years ago I posted an article on this topic. My comment at the time:
…with the completion of the “security fence” Israel will effectively have annexed a good part of the West Bank and Gaza and will maintain de facto control of the rest for years to come. The Palestinian struggle will then shift from a [...]
A extremely well-written and intelligent analysis of the war in Georgia and its aftermath.
The first essential step for the leader of the Western alliance is to tone down the bombast and restore a dialogue with Russia. Our peripatetic secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, should have jetted off to Moscow, not Tbilisi. Careless talk about throwing [...]
The war in Yugoslavia was a turning point in the human rights movement. Appalled by the atrocities they saw, many Western war correspondents advocated for military intervention by the US and the EU. The rallying cry was “how can we stand by and let another Holocaust happen?” Eventually (not soon enough for what would soon be known as the [...]
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Yesterday while reading AMNY I saw an article about Kosovo. As with the so-called “Cedar Revolution” and “Orange Revolution” there was the obligatory picture of a pretty girl sitting on someone’s shoulders and waving a flag. Given the parallels my skeptical nature kicked in. While knowing very little about the issue, I began to wonder [...]
Starting from Benny Morris’ diatribe, Kathleen Christison analyzes how many Jews deal with the Israel/Palestine conflict. Her analysis leads me to some thoughts of my own.
“Halper writes that as one of the few Israelis who have ever even been to Palestine, he finds it ‘impossible to convey to my own people, my own neighbors (good [...]
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