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  Candor Among Friends

  ‘Friends owe it to friends to be as candid as possible,” Vice President Dick Cheney told the 6,200 delegates at this week’s annual gathering of Aipac, the vaunted pro-Israel lobbying organization. “So let me say that a precipitous American withdrawal from Iraq would be a disaster for the United States and the entire Middle East.”…

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  What Was Once a Revolutionary Guard Is Now Just a Mafia

  Back in October 1978, none of us in exile with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini imagined that victory for the Islamic Revolution would be attained only a few months later. It was during those days in Neuf-le-Chateau that the notion of starting a “people’s army” first took hold, and expecting that our battle would be a long…

  By Mohsen Sazegara Mar 16, 2007 | 11 min read
• Opinion

  Authoritarian Rule May Be Iraq’s Only Hope

  The only sacred cow left to slaughter in Iraq is the illusion that somehow, if the United States persists, democracy will survive and reign and be good for America and its interests. Admitting that democratization has failed and abandoning the democratization project is the real issue still to be confronted in the course of extricating…

  By Yossi Alpher Mar 13, 2007 | 4 min read

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• Alyssa Katz My summer plans prove it: The Jewish Catskills are alive and kicking

  

• Rob Eshman ‘Remember the Liberty’ has become code for ‘Israel Is Evil’ 

  

• Dan Perry The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel

  

• Emily Tamkin Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point

  

• Jay Michaelson You’re wrong, Ken Paxton: Obviously God is nonbinary

  

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  War Clouds Gather Over the Golan

  While the world’s attention is riveted on the conflict in Iraq and a possible American attack on Iran, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad may be quietly preparing for a war against Israel. From the mid-1950s until the end of the Cold War, what made Syria’s aggression against Israel possible was the fact that Damascus got its…

  By Martin van Creveld Mar 10, 2007 | 6 min read
• Opinion

  Recognize Resurgence of Antisemitism in France

  Physical attacks on Jews in France increased by 45% last year, and verbal attacks increased by 71%, according to a new report prepared by CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jewish organizations. That is bad enough news. But to make matters worse, the French ambassador to the United States has been quoted as claiming that…

  By Edward Koch and Rafael Medoff Mar 9, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Finally, a Jewish Population Study Worth Studying

  A study recently released by The Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University shows that the Jewish population in America is actually about 20% larger than previously estimated. Whereas the National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01 put the figure for the “core Jewish population” at 5.2 million, the new numbers range from 6 million to 6.4…

  By Bethamie Horowitz Mar 9, 2007 | 4 min read
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  Amir Peretz Turns His Lens Inward

  The question: What did he see? By now, you may well have watched or heard about Amir Peretz’s blooper the other day. It made the front page of Israel’s two mass circulation dailies and has been featured on Jay Leno, on NPR’s “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” quiz show, and approximately everywhere else as well….

  By Leonard Fein Mar 9, 2007 | 4 min read
• Letters

  March 9, 2007

  Applaud Gov’t Defense Of Religious Freedom A March 2 article on the recent speech by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before a meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention was a disservice to the excellent work the Justice Department is doing in the defense of religious freedom (“Speech by Attorney General Sparks Church-State Furor”). The important news…

  Mar 9, 2007 | 3 min read
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  The Cover-up and the Crime

  Conventional wisdom in Washington has it that the cover-up is always worse than the crime. Just as Al Capone was nailed for tax evasion, so the pundits like to recount, White House schemers end up paying not for their actual schemes, but for the fibs they tell Congress and the grand jury as they try…

  Mar 9, 2007 | 2 min read
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  A New Wind

  There are still those who believe that the frenzy of diplomatic initiatives coming out of Saudi Arabia in the past few weeks — the brokering of the Palestinian unity government deal, the weekend visit to Riyadh by Iran’s president, the planned Arab League summit where the 2002 Saudi peace plan is to be revived —…

  Mar 9, 2007 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The Jefferson Y

  We know a thing or two about Virginia politicians with secret Jewish roots. Just ask George Allen. But Thomas Jefferson? As The New York Times reported Wednesday, “Researchers studying Jefferson’s Y chromosome have found it belongs to a lineage that is rare in Europe but common in the Middle East, raising the possibility that the…

  Mar 2, 2007 | < 1 min read