International

By overdemanding, Palestinians removed their goals from serious consideration

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–There are several ways of describing the essence of politics. All of them mean pretty much the same thing: Go along in order to get along Compromise Recognize your limits One who demands too much may end up with nothing There is no absolute justice Justifications for one or another demand are […]

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

To preserve internal power, Egyptian military may seek confrontation with Israel

By Dr. Ehud Eilam WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two intertwined problems confront Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces: the deteriorating economy and the looming elections. The military has always been the dominant actor in Egypt since the July 1952 overthrow of King Farouk and the termination of the constitutional monarchy. After then, every president

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Middle East

As Yom Kippur ends, social protest and peace with Palestinians return to fore

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The New Year has begun and Yom Kippur is behind us. Two prominent issues  wait for treatment: peace with the Palestinians and a response to domestic  social protest. The Prime Minister says that he is working hard to achieve both  goals. Optimists are asking themselves if they can expect decisive

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Turkey is not just Israel’s problem; it’s the West’s

WASHINGTON, D.C. (JINSA)–Bellicose threats directed at  Israel by the Turkish government delivered over the past two months are  extremely disturbing and demand an American response. Never before in the  history of the alliance has a NATO member used such strident and threatening  language at a fellow democratic country. This is in addition to nine years

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Middle East

On meeting the President

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — “Mr. President, three years ago I met you at a similar venue and told you then that I worried about you—you answered that you were worried about yourself too—you were a candidate then. I must admit that I have not stopped worrying since and that you are

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Natasha Josefowitz, USA

Polish Odyssey: 2nd Generation Survivor visits ancestral homeland

-First in a Series- By Jeanette Friedman WARSAW–My first glimpse of Poland came through an airplane window. The thick turbulent clouds had just thinned, and from my aisle seat I could see a lush checkerboard of fields punctuated by small forests, and realized that these were the fields and forests where the Jewish Partisans I

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International

Nazi nonsense in Thailand

By Danny Bloom TAIPEI, Taiwan — When a British newspaper recently splashed some color photos of high school girls at a private Catholic school in Thailand sporting Nazi uniforms during a sports day festival, all hell broke loose on the Internet after the German and Israeli embassies in Bangkok issued statements to the English-language media

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