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Opinion Behold, It Was Good
In the end, Americans were simply fed up. They were tired of being lied to, tired of watching their country’s blood spilled pointlessly in the deserts and alleyways of Iraq, along with its fiscal sanity and its good name around the world. They were tired of the hypocrisy, of the posing, of the fakers who…
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Opinion How To Save the Planet
Last Monday, a scant eight days before America’s critical midterm elections, the British government released a new report on global warming and its consequences that is being described — in Britain, at least — as the most thorough, authoritative study of the topic to date, and the most apocalyptic. Commissioned by the British Treasury, prepared…
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Opinion Balfour’s Message
This Thursday, November 2, marked the 89th anniversary of the historic Balfour Declaration, the British government statement that marked the first international recognition of the goals of Zionism. It was a simple letter, addressed from the British foreign secretary, Arthur James Balfour, to a Jewish community leader, Lord Rothschild, expressing sympathy with the goal of…
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Opinion The Lieberman Perplex
By a curious coincidence of events and timing, America and Israel appear poised in the coming days to take big steps in opposite political directions: America to the left, Israel to the right. More curious still, the traumatic changes that are convulsing the political systems in both countries may be captured, at least symbolically, in…
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Opinion Ben Meed z”l
Every death embodies a world of loss, but the passing this week of Benjamin Meed at age 88 leaves a void that can never be filled. A quiet, soft-spoken man in his private life, Meed was a towering presence in the public sphere, combining indomitable will, matchless organizational skill and, most of all, lifelong heroism….
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Opinion Human Rights in Wartime
Liberals and human rights activists are loudly decrying the new anti-terrorism measure signed into law this week by President Bush as a historic assault on the American tradition of justice and fair play — “one of the worst civil liberties measures ever enacted in American history,” in the words of the American Civil Liberties Union….
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Opinion Pyongyang’s Big Bang
In a season of deep gloom and dark fears, no recent news has stricken more terror into more hearts than the reports this week that North Korea had conducted its first nuclear weapons test. The reports remain unconfirmed, to be sure, and the size of the tremor suggests that the bomb, if that’s what it…
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Opinion The Leadership Follies
When all is said and done, the most shocking aspect of the Mark Foley congressional sex scandal now unfolding in Washington is that it’s not terribly surprising. It’s just another misadventure by politicians from the ruling party whose sordid deeds are poles apart from their self-righteous, moralizing blather. It’s another example of America’s political leaders…
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