International

List of property stolen by Nazis now on searchable data base

NEW YORK (Press Release) – A large-scale international effort to help Jewish victims of the Holocaust redress claims of lost property confiscated, looted or forcibly sold under the Nazi regime was jumpstarted this week with the unveiling of a large, publicly available and searchable database of more than 650,000 Holocaust era property records in its first […]

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International

Reactions to Bin-Laden’s killing should instruct U.S. to true sympathies of various groups

DOROTHY: “I thought you said she was dead.” GLINDA: “That was her sister–the Wicked Witch of the East. This is the Wicked Witch of the West. And she’s worse than the other one was.” –“The Wizard of Oz” By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — It’s astounding that Hamas, Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades, and the Egyptian Muslim

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International, Middle East, USA

Revolutionary Islamism still strong following Bin Laden’s demise

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Usama bin Laden is dead. But revolutionary Islamism is very much alive and stronger than ever. Thinking that bin Laden is the main problem and his death is the solution is very dangerous indeed and might well intensify the policies that have been leading toward the victory of his

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International, Middle East, USA

Israel should make no concessions to Palestinian ‘unity’ government

By Morton A. Klein NEW YORK — Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas, which controls Gaza, have initialed a unity agreement, which they are likely to formally sign in a matter of days. This means that Fatah, which calls in its Constitution for the destruction of Israel (Article 12) and the use of

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Middle East

Not an academic, but an ‘acridemic’ persists in attacking Israel

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California –The appointment at my alma mater,  Brooklyn College, of an adjunct, Kristofer Petersen, to teach Middle East politics in the Political Science department was defended as academic freedom. This was despite his involvement in touting Gazans as virtual lambs and Israel as a beast, and his heavily slanted reading list.

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Middle East

Muslim Brotherhood makes bid for power in Egypt

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Remember when we were told that the Muslim Brotherhood was moderate and weak? Why it was so benign that the Brotherhood had even promised only to contest one-third of the seats. And a revolutionary Islamist, antisemitic and genocide-oriented, anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Christian organization would never lie to us, right?

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Middle East

No instant experts in Israel

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –I’ve always pleaded with visitors to Israel not to believe that, after a brief visit or an orchestrated “mission,” they really understand the situation here. Instead, I’ve urged them to be settling for being confused even after – or because of – all they’ve seen and heard, but if possible

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Middle East