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Kerry should remember Einstein’s maxim

By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Recently, a good number of American Jews, self-declared pro-Israel Zionists, wrote Israel P.M. Netanyahu a finger-wagging letter, asking him “to make painful concessions and sacrifices” to the Palestinians to achieve peace. This was not a discreet expression of opinion, permitted to anyone, but a public admonition full […]

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How to fight terrorism on line

By Joshua Sinai      The Internet is a crucial tool that terrorist groups and their extremist supporters use to distribute their propaganda and attack planning beyond the “physical” space where they operate clandestinely into the worldwide “cyber” space, where it is easier to reach vast audiences that have Internet connectivity. Terrorist presence and appeal on the

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Does U.S. believe endless talk is an alternative to war?

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” The source is Winston Churchill, on the occasion of a White House meeting with Dwight Eisenhower in 1954, to co-ordinate positions against Communism when Vietnam was a serious blot on the horizon. It also helps to explain the efforts of Barack Obama and John

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Obama’s week: Sequester con game, fence-mending in Israel

By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In my previous writings, I repeatedly denounced the mainstream media “dereliction of duty,” their blind unconditional support for the president and his party, their selective reporting of the news, their self-imposed silence and even coverups of  Obama’s deficiencies, failures, and scandals. This silence, much akin to the “omerta” en

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Pro and con: U.S. Jewish support for Israel government

My debate with J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami By Roz Rothstein/JNS.org   On Monday evening, March 11, I had a public discussion with Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder and president of J Street, at Temple Isaiah in Los Angeles. The topics included how American Jews should approach pro-Israel advocacy, whether peace is currently attainable between Israel and Palestinian Authority

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