This past Friday at the Brookings Institute, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta excoriated Israel for the lack of progress in the peace process.  Sandwiching his remarks between the usual boilerplate platitudes, our Secretary of Defense made it absolutely clear that he and the administration feel that the responsibility  for the sorry state of affairs...
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“The Holocaust gave the Jewish people a fifty year respite from antisemitism. I am afraid it is back again”. —Eliot Cohen,  Renowned Author, Scholar and Professor at the SAIS school at John Hopkins. Hatred. Sheer, unadulterated, potent hatred.  It is back again, in full force, and it is directed against my people in an...
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By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler The Palestinian UN statehood bid — statehood without negotiations — which is now before the Security Council, is just the latest step in a never-ceasing effort by the Palestinian leadership to erase the State of Israel. This is the Two State Solution on the way to Hitler’s “Final...
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Many schools around the country have what is called a “zero tolerance” policy on fighting. When two students are involved in a fight, the policy of the school is to punish them both equally, regardless of the circumstances or who started it. Put simply, the punishment for the bully and the victim is the...
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President Barack Obama took the opportunity while speaking before a crowd of thousands at the AIPAC annual meeting this week to reiterate his Middle East policy as presented in an earlier speech to the State Department — a speech which raised serious concerns among the pro-Israel policy community.  The general message of his remarks...
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As the political earthquake continues to rock the Middle East, one standard complaint has been notably absent. We have heard nothing from the people on the Middle East and North Africa streets about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In fact, the Palestinians themselves have been relatively quiet throughout this period. The words, “Israel,” “Zionism” and “Palestinian”...
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speeches to the United Nations, have something of a Barnum & Bailey feel to them. There are crowds outside the circus tent (most of them organized by pro-Israel organizations protesting his calls to genocide against the Jews, his Holocaust denial and his nuclear weapons program,) and usually Ahmadinejad can be counted on...
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After several weeks of dominating the news, the preacher of a small Florida church, Terry Jones, has finally disappeared from the front pages, after promising that he would end his plans to hold a public burning of the Koran. The proposed stunt was sophomoric, childish, and roundly condemned by everyone. The image of books...
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In our article last week, we made mention of the Material Support law, and how it specifically prevents the transfer of money or other support, even on humanitarian grounds, when the provider of those funds have reason to believe that the money will go to a designated terrorist organization.We used this to point out...
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by: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler Earlier this month we watched as the high seas had become the theater for staging yet another hate-infested anti-Israel drama, costumed in heart-rendering, humanitarian language.  This premeditated performance had been cynically calculated to pirate the international sympathy for the people who in open and democratic elections, freely elected...
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