Opinion

• Opinion

  Weapons of Mass Deception

  With all the attention to Condoleezza Rice’s testimony to the 9/11 Commission and the fighting in Iraq, it’s been easy to overlook the explosive news about Iran’s nuclear program. In early April, Iran announced it will start building a “research” reactor which just so happens to be of the right design and size to produce…

  By Patrick Clawson

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  Home Is Where the Heart Isn’t

  Estelle N’Gambi came to New York from Zambia four years ago to take a position as a live-in nanny with a family in Yonkers. She labored 18 hours a day, seven days a week, earning only $250 a month — and she had to sleep on the floor. N’Gambi’s story is an all too familiar…

  By Alisa Solomon Apr 16, 2004 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Targeted Killings: Two Israeli Perspectives

  He was the de facto ruler of Gaza and represented a revolution that challenged Israel’s right to exist. His involvement in Palestinian terror attacks against Israel led to his assassination. On July 19, 1956, Colonel Musfasa Hafez, President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s intelligence chief in what was then Egyptian-controlled Gaza, was killed by an Israeli bomb….

  By Ehud Eiran Apr 9, 2004 | 3 min read

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• Rob Eshman I have the answer to Jon Stewart’s toughest question about Israel

  

• Nora Berman ‘Eddington’ is full of conspiracy theories but it’s not about Jews. Or is it?

  

• Dan Perry Recognizing a Palestinian state is a great way to doom Palestinians

  

• Emily Tamkin Is starvation in Gaza really Israel’s fault? The facts are clear

  

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• Letters

  April 9, 2004

  Caricaturing Yeshiva U. Howard Jonas’s unbridled critique of Yeshiva University (“Philanthropist Attacks University for Right Turn,” April 2) expresses in particularly sharp language a growing but simplistic perception of a complex institution. Y.U. contains a broad ideological spectrum of both students and rabbinic faculty, who, on the whole, embody the university’s classic position on combining…

  Apr 9, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Destroying Enemies, Before They Destroy Us

  The decision to target Sheikh Ahmed Yassin last month was taken by the Israeli Cabinet following the double suicide bombing in Ashdod. That attack was perceived as a major step up in terror activity because it targeted a chemical storage site. Had it exploded, the devastation would have been enormous. In response, Prime Minister Sharon…

  By Amira Schiff Apr 9, 2004 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Beyond the Euphrates: A War of Truth vs. Lies

  From Iraq came the revolting photos. Barbarians in Falluja had strung up the burnt bodies of American civilians on a bridge over the River Euphrates. Apart from the sheer horror of it — the teenagers merrily dancing as the blackened corpses swung in the background — Jews in particular may have been struck by the…

  By David Klinghoffer Apr 9, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  In Sudan, A Modern-Day Story of Slavery

  It is during Passover that we Jews are most sharply reminded that we walk the earth as redeemed slaves. But while human bondage may for us be a thing of the distant past, for many others slavery is not a matter of history. This year, as we celebrate our redemption at Seder tables around the…

  By Charles Jacobs Apr 9, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Mr. Sharon Goes To Washington

  Beg your pardon? A referendum of the Likud Party to determine whether Israel will or will not withdraw from Gaza? It is excruciatingly difficult to feel sympathy toward George W. Bush, but the imminent arrival of Prime Minister Sharon in Washington must move even the stone-hearted to just such an emotion. What will poor President…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 9, 2004 | 4 min read
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  Victims, Born and Unborn

  No children, born or otherwise, will be protected by the so-called Unborn Victims of Violence Act that President Bush signed into law last week. The new measure is a legal trifle that makes it a crime to harm a fetus during the commission of another federal crime. The presumed logic of the bill is that…

  Apr 9, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  All Who Are Hungry, Come Eat

  It’s customary at holiday-time for the press to bombard the public with heartwarming stories about unfortunate souls unable to share in the joy. The message is invariably about the difference one charitable individual can make in the life of one poor kid. It’s a necessary ritual, helping to fund those charities that step in when…

  Apr 9, 2004 | 2 min read
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  Europe’s Media Echo Chamber

  An unexpected event has taken place in the European media: Jean Daniel, editor of Le Nouvel Observateur, the highly influential Paris weekly, rebuked his colleagues for the manner in which they cover suicide terrorism. “All of the media outlets in France, and there are many, condemn terror and extremist fundamentalism, but the same media report…

  By Amnon Rubinstein Apr 9, 2004 | 3 min read