With gratitude toward that person of dubious repute, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, many of us  now know with  one hundred  per cent certitude what our instincts have been telling us for years:  The Sunni Arab world, and in particular Saudi Arabia, despises and fears Iran, and their concerns for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is exceedingly...
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Times of crisis bring out both the very worst and the very best in people. If one is intrinsically motivated by empathy, acts of kindness and benevolence emerge. If one is basically evil, then one revels in the misfortune of the other. A heartwarming, global humanity began emerging last week, when the fire in...
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As the attention of much of the United States has been primarily focused, due to today’s elections, on domestic issues, as well as on the sardonic Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert non-rally-rally on the National Mall, the foreign policy stage remains deadly serious. Yet, we as a nation have lost our focus. First and...
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This week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Lebanon to throngs of thousands upon thousands of cheering supporters who threw candies and rose petals at his passing motorcade. In a highly symbolic move, the Iranian leader went to Bint Jubail, just four miles north of the border with Israel, a southern Lebanese village that...
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“Get your facts first…then you can distort them as you please”- Mark Twain I left Israel, this week, with a heavy heart, wondering how the tables have been turned around so dramatically and in so remarkably short a time, against the Jewish state. It is with  incredible deft, that a physical war to eradicate...
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“When the pursuit of peace becomes the entire objective of foreign policy, it becomes a weapon in the hands of the most ruthless. It produces moral disarmament.” —Henry Kissinger Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent announcement that peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians, which are set to resume on Thursday, “should resolve...
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By Sarah N. Stern and Kyle Shideler After Lebanon’s August 3rd cross-border sniper attack that killed Israel Defense Forces Colonel Dov Harari and injured a second officer, the U.S. Congress, led by Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) and Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) ordered a hold placed on $100 million in military aid for the Lebanese...
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By: Emmanuel Navon, member of EMET’s Board of Advisors, and an instructor at Tel Aviv University. Cross-posted from http://navonsblog.blogspot.com/ In today’s France, Jewish items are being burnt on the streets again. Not Jewish books by the Church, but Jewish food by the Mosque. Food items are publicly thrown out of stores and burnt on...
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By: Kyle Shideler, Senior Research Fellow The recent announcement of a proposed $30 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia, which includes 84 F-15E fighter jets, has once again raised questions on whether the United States is honoring its oft-stated commitment to help maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge (QME). It has long been an unwritten...
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(Cross-posted at EMET with Emmanuel’s Permission) By. Emmanuel Navon René Descartes’ Discours de la Méthode opens with one of the most nonsensical sentences ever written: « Common sense is the most evenly shared thing in the world. »  Then there is Immanuel Kant, who wrote in his Zum ewigen Frieden that republics are less...
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