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Time Does Not Favor the Jewish State
Habonim Camp Moshava, which I attended as a camper many years ago, was then located on Maryland’s Severn River. The landmark (or watermark, I suppose) was significant, since the Severn was frequently infested with antisemitic jellyfish. (“Jellyfish” are actually not fish at all, since they are not vertebrates. They have no brain, either, but oh…
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Letters November 16, 2007
Recognize Importance Of the Temple Mount I was pleased to read Tzvi Hersh Weinreb and Stephen Savitsky’s vigorous defense of the future of a continued, unified Jerusalem (“We Cannot Forget Jerusalem,” November 9). I was utterly dismayed, however, by their description of the Western Wall as Judaism’s holiest site. We have come to expect such…
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Opinion The Bomb and the Taliban
Distant though it may seem from our day-to-day reality, Pakistan’s sudden descent into political chaos this month presents America and the West with a diplomatic and security challenge unlike any other on our crisis-ridden horizon. Simply put, the world’s second-largest Muslim nation — and the only one with nuclear weapons — is teetering on the…
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Opinion Defining a Nation
Every time Middle East peace negotiations loom, leaders on both sides begin to strut and posture, loudly proclaiming how little they intend to give away. It’s intended partly to placate the domestic opposition before the tough decisions arrive, and partly to soften up the other side. The latest example is Palestinian spokesman Saeb Erekat, a…
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Opinion In Annapolis, Damascus Is More Important Than Ramallah
America and its moderate friends and allies in the Middle East are already in bad enough shape without the setback awaiting them at Annapolis in a few weeks. It is not too late, however, to rethink this summit. As matters now stand, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will sit down in Annapolis with Palestinian President…
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Opinion Beating Stereotypes in China
Three percent of all Americans are Jews. They have left themselves to be a minority. Although they are very clever and have much control over America, it is still considered almost impossible that a Jew could be elected President of the United States, because of Protestant prejudice that they are too sneaky… The sentences above…
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Opinion The Charter School Temptation
Florida’s Ben Gamla Charter School is more than just a place of learning. It represents a radical new vision for the future of Jewish education in America. The Ben Gamla school, which opened this summer, is the country’s first publicly funded, Hebrew-themed charter school. Its founder, former Democratic congressman Peter Deutsch, has said he wants…
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Opinion Oh, the Fun Walt and Mearsheimer Will Have
Perhaps Iran does not intend to develop a nuclear weapons capability. That’s what they’ve said, but who knows what to believe? Perhaps even if they do intend to develop such a capability, they will not succeed; that’s what some experts say, but others tell us it’s imminent. How can we be sure? It is likely…
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Letters November 9, 2007
Religious Committed to Dialogue With Israelis A November 2 editorial perceptively links Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit’s proposal to drop the law of return and the efforts of American Jewish philanthropists to disconnect the Jewish Agency from the World Zionist Organization (“One People”). Both reflect the growing distance separating Israeli and American Jewry. Let me add…
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Opinion And Now, Turkey
The crisis coming to a boil along Turkey’s border with Iraq, pitting Turkish troops against Iraqi-based Kurdish rebels, could hardly come at a worse time for America or the West. Turkey, population 70 million, straddling the Asian and European continents, is the most secularized of Muslim nations and the one most critical to the strategic…
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Opinion The Jewish Lobby Israel Needs
The next few weeks may determine the future of Zionism. This is not an exaggeration. If the upcoming Annapolis peace conference ends the same way as the Camp David summit of 2000, the future of the Jewish state will be in jeopardy. The Israeli people can deal with another deadlock in the endless “peace process.”…
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