International

Pro-Israel groups organize to combat Palestinians, leftists on campus

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California –The old “gentlemen’s agreement” worked sub rosa to discriminate against Jews and preserve the homogeneity of neighborhoods or work places. General indifference permitted this. The new “gentlemen’s agreement” works similarly on many campuses to preserve the homogeneity of leftist and pro-Palestinian thought, again permitted by indifferent administrators. As many of […]

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USA

Israel’s immigration ministry hurts Americans’ feelings with ill-conceived ad campaign

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Emigration from Israel is one of those issues that erupts every so many years to excite the fearful. Americans might think about abortion, prayer in the schools, gun control, or the placement of a Christmas tree and Hanukkah menorah on a public place. What is common to them all is

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Nuclear sabotage in Iran preferable to all-out war

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–There has been another explosion in Iran. This one in the city of Isfahan, home to spectacular Muslim architecture, and industrial facilities linked to the country’s nuclear program. There are no reports that the explosion damaged the mosques or madrases. Among the Iranian reports are that it occurred at a gas station.

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Rational Egyptians, haters and the U.S. government

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, the White House pulled the props out from under the military government in Cairo, calling for it to yield power. Now. “The United States strongly believes that the new Egyptian government must be empowered with real authority immediately…we believe that the full transfer of power to a

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Israeli Arabs could be more politically powerful

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of the great failures of my professional life is an inability to convince Israeli Arabs (or Palestinians with Israeli citizenship) to adopt the model of African-Americans as a way of political and social advancement. Arab intellectuals and political activists are well schooled in good reasons to reject the comparison.

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Behind Israel’s debate over an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities

  By Yaakov Lappin  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was one of the first to sound the alarm over Iran’s nuclear armament program, identifying the threat it posed to global security in the early 1990s. The last time he spoke openly about his views on the Iranian threat was when he was head

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Middle East

JFK now longer dead than alive

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Forty-eight years ago today, Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy, 46, was slain while riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza, Dallas.  The world stopped; the kinetic, violent, transformational 1960s truly sprung, at 12:30 PM CST, when the shots were fired from the Texas School Book Depository

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USA

There’s learning about Israel, and then there’s experiencing it!

By Mara Hochberg-Miller LA JOLLA, California — I decided to study in Israel because it is the place where my Judaism, interest in politics and the Middle East, love for eretz yisrael, and career path in international relations meet. Back home in California, I could study Middle Eastern history and international diplomacy all I wanted, but

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