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Applying Jim Crow to Israel: An Open Letter to Secretary Rice
Madame Secretary,
Allow me to introduce myself. I am an American-born Israeli, and since my early childhood I have been sympathetic to the civil rights movement in the US, and human rights movement around the...
Iran’s blood-drenched mullah: Human rights getting worse
Students face riot police near Tehran University, during a clash which started when police occupied and closed the main entrance gate of the university, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday July 13, 1999. In a flashback...
Insight into the News
Posting: September 28, 2008
"Rosh Hashana"
Tomorrow night begins the Jewish New Year: Rosh Hashana. It is time of serious contemplation, acknowledgement of our failings, and efforts for improvement -- coupled with prayers to the Almighty...
The Holocaust Did not Begin in the Gas Chambers – it Began with Words
On this United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day, words may ease the pain, but they may also dwarf the tragedy. For the Holocaust is uniquely evil in its genocidal singularity, where biology was inescapably...
Has Netanyahu Become Mainstream Israel?
"If Israel hosts an Arab minority, why can't a few thousands of Jews reside
in a Palestinian state, which occupies part of the Jewish homeland?"
Antisemitism and Introspection
Robert s. Wistrich
This year, Tisha B'Av (the annual Jewish fast day commemorating the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem) once again reminded us of the dangers of “gratuitous hatred” without...
A critical new text for understanding the Middle East: “The Sources of Iranian negotiating...
There are basically two ways to approach the Middle East:
* Option 1: Understand what makes Farsi- and Arabic-speaking, Muslim-majority societies different from the West given their history, experiences, culture, politics, and other features.
* Option...
(Rejecting the Notion of the “Iranian-supported Gaza Regime”) Thanks to International Aid, Gaza Is...
http://www.gloria-center.org/gloria/2010/12/gaza-going-to-be-well-off-islamist-republic
The Gaza Strip is doing really well economically and the Hamas regime seems set to go on forever. It's raking in the aid money but every dollar and every project is shaped to ensure...
“The Shepherd Hotel in Perspective”
This is going to be a two-part posting. I participated in a tour of eastern Jerusalem, which incorporated the Shepherd hotel of Sheikh Jarrah as well as part of the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood.
Today, I...
Bibi, Barack and Tom Friedman
Reading a Tom Friedman column on Bibi and Barack is to take a step into a virtual reality show, where the director, Tom Friedman, says there will be no connection to any real facts...
