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Between an Ax And a Scalpel
There’s a reason the Left (or the liberals or the progressives, or whatever nom de guerre you prefer) seems so bereft of a positive agenda. The Right, by and large, knows precisely what it seeks to accomplish. It seeks to dismantle government. It wants to privatize medical care, and social security, and our prisons, and…
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Opinion Bush and the Terrorists
President Bush got at least one thing dead-right at the Tuesday night press conference where he attempted to defend his floundering counterterrorism policy. The terrorists, the president said, “can be right one time. We got to be right 100% of the time in order to protect the country.” What was missing from Bush’s remarks was…
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Opinion Genocide and Conscience
The continuing agonies of the African continent — in Liberia and Sierra Leone, Congo and now Sudan — are a constant reminder to the rest of the world of the fragility of what we call societal decency. The inability of the international community to address those agonies and aid the sufferers is an ongoing stain…
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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…
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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…
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Opinion 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…
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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…
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Opinion 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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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