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J Street praises congressional letter seeking continued aid to Israel, P.A.

March 18, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – J Street welcomed a congressional letter on Friday to President Obama, led by Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) and Anna Eshoo (CA-14) and signed by 116 members of Congress, in support of the Administration’s efforts to maintain current levels of foreign aid to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The letter is signed by nearly […]

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Itamar murders question validity of arming and training Palestinian police

March 18, 2011

By Shoshana Bryen WASHNGTON, D.C. — It appears that members of the American-trained Palestinian Security Force on the West Bank abetted the Itamar terrorists, prompting outrage over the fact that American military personnel are training Palestinian Security Forces in the first place. The outrage looks through the back end of the microscope – minimizing and

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Settlements are Israel’s leaky reactors

March 17, 2011

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Despite dramatic events in this region that directly affect Israel, the situation in Japan continues to dominate the media here. Journalists and experts repeatedly point to the implications for this country: oil will be even more expensive; the stock exchange will report further losses; the economy will suffer; the danger of

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Uh-Oh! Egyptian revolutionaries ungrateful to Obama Administration

March 16, 2011

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Who’d possibly have thought it? Answer: Anybody who understands the Middle East. You see, the Obama Administration rushed to get rid of the Mubarak government in the belief that this action would make Egyptians see that they are simply wonderful people. This would assure that Egypt and America remained good

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Middle East, USA

Open letter to the Fogel family

March 16, 2011

By Rabbi Shmully Hecht NEW HAVEN, Connecticut –Following is an open letter to the Fogel letter of Itamar, Israel Dear Tamar, Roi, and Yishai, We have never met but I write to you with tears in my eyes, and a sad and heavy heart that is shared by our people, Am Yisroel. Like your parents, I too long to settle

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On preventing terrorism–on land and at sea

March 15, 2011

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Where is the connection between the vicious murder of two parents and three of their five children in Itamar last weekend and the Peter King hearing? Some time after 9-11, someone in America coined the term “Sudden Jihad Syndrome” to account for people – Muslims – who “went berserk”

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Some Mideast tips for U.S. policymakers

March 15, 2011

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — People ask me what the United States should be doing toward the upheavals in the Middle East. Here’s a short, quick list of themes: 1. Understanding that there are some people who want real democracy and others who don’t, U.S. policy should be focused on battling the latter, especially

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Middle East, USA

Ending ‘occupation’ won’t end hatred, terror

March 15, 2011

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–“Mourning for the victims has barely begun, but the government has already managed to discredit their memory.” So writes Bernard Avishai, the Canadian born Israeli political commentator and consultant who spends much time in the United States. He’s referring to the ways in which the Government of Israel has exploited the

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U.S. policy makers should apply Cold War lessons to Middle East

March 14, 2011

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — I just don’t get it. The more degrees from famous universities U.S. leaders have, the less they seem to know, especially about history. Consider this in light of their inability to understand that not only al-Qaida but also Syria, Hamas, Hizballah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the AKP government in

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Carson to teach MLK’s non-violence to Palestinians

March 14, 2011

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–One is torn and in anguish between rage and passion: The cold-blooded, brutish slaying with knives of the Fogel family, including parents, small children and an infant, in the Jewish community of Itamar on the West Bank boils up torrid feelings of antipathy and regret—why did I ever feel compassion

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StandWithUs says U.S. should require P.A. to end anti-Israel incitement

March 14, 2011

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– StandWithUs is horrified and grief-stricken by the savage murder of five members of the Fogel family. Palestinian terrorists slipped into the house while the family slept, stabbed the parents, slashed the throat of 11-year-old Yoav, knifed 3-year-old Elad in the heart, and slit the throat of their three-month-old baby, Hadas. The

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The ripple effects of political murders

March 14, 2011

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–A spurt of angry speech and activity that leaves little behind, or a spark of change in direction? After the Sabbath killing of five members of the Fogel family in the settlement Itamar: Israeli politicians across the spectrum from right to left expressed revulsion and rage. The Prime Minister, in a public

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Listening anew to President Obama’s Cairo speech

March 13, 2011

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — I listened again to President Barack Obama’s main speech on Egypt back during the revolution and two phrases caught my ear. They were both intended, perhaps, as bland rhetoric yet they carry an awesome amount of meaning. The first was this: “Suppressing ideas never make them go away.” At

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Middle East, USA

Murders in Itamar fuel extremism on both sides

March 13, 2011

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Terrorist attacks are unpredictable, but in Israel they tend to happen especially whenever there’re signs of movements toward peace with the Palestinians. Though there’s no evidence as yet that the attack last Friday night on the Jewish settlement of Itamar near Nablus in the West Bank, which took the lives of

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Middle East

J Street praises congressional letter seeking continued aid to Israel, P.A.

Itamar murders question validity of arming and training Palestinian police

Settlements are Israel’s leaky reactors

Uh-Oh! Egyptian revolutionaries ungrateful to Obama Administration

Open letter to the Fogel family

On preventing terrorism–on land and at sea

Some Mideast tips for U.S. policymakers

Ending ‘occupation’ won’t end hatred, terror

U.S. policy makers should apply Cold War lessons to Middle East

Carson to teach MLK’s non-violence to Palestinians

StandWithUs says U.S. should require P.A. to end anti-Israel incitement

The ripple effects of political murders

Listening anew to President Obama’s Cairo speech

Murders in Itamar fuel extremism on both sides

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