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How Arab Governments Manage the Israel Issue

Using the Israel issue is so attractive and useful because there is a lot of popular support for this attitude… Continue reading

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Murdered Diplomacy: How the Israel-Palestinian Conflict Has Been Totally Transformed

If the Israel-Palestinian situation were to be considered to be like a hand grenade, the “international community” has just pulled the pin and thrown it away… Continue reading

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Digging Up Arafat

Suddenly, I received all of these phone calls from journalists asking me to talk about who murdered the late Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat… Continue reading

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Yasir Arafat Is Still Dead and We Know Who Really Did Him In

Yasir Arafat is still dead. True, he was once alive…Continue reading

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Where Did All the Billions of Dollars Given to the Palestinian Authority Go?

Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says that his regime is short of funds… Continue reading

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The Year the Arabs Discovered Palestine

Judging from news reports, one might think that Palestinian nationalism has been active as long as… Continue reading

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Jordan Is Palestinian

Thus far the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has weathered the storm that has swept across the Middle East… Continue reading

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Radical Chic Catastrophes: When Romanticism Trumps Reason

The radical is always the more glamorous… Continue reading

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It Isn’t Israel in Danger of Disappearing, It’s The People Who Think That Way

I’m standing on the edge of the Roman Forum, by the Arch of Titus. This is the marble structure built by… Continue reading

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I Hate Israel! I Hate America! I’m a Muslim! I’ve Got it All! Let Me Be Your Leader!

I hate Israel and want to destroy it! And besides we’re all Muslims. So let me lead the Middle East… Continue reading

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The “Oslo Syndrome” and the Terror Attack in Norway

One of the most sensitive aspects of the very sensitive subject of the murderous terrorist attack in Norway by… Continue reading

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Palestinian “Moderate” Shows Why Real Peace is Impossible At Present

Nabil Shaath has given a fascinating and insightful interview that is well worth analyzing… Continue reading

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Why Did Fatah Expell Its Number-One Anti-Hamas Guy?

Muhammad Dahlan has been expelled from Fatah by that group’s Central Committee… Continue reading

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The Unbearable Lightness of Mainstream Thinking on Israel-Palestinian Issues

An analysis of the Lying-for-Peace Movement and of how the main arguments on the… Continue reading

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Why Does the Media Report the Opposite of What’s True in the Middle East?

Here’s one of a thousand examples of how Middle East reality is being misrepresented. I’m told by people that the deputy head of… Continue reading

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The NYT Promotes Muslim Brotherhood Lies, Covering Up for Nazi Collaborators

Recently, Tariq Ramadan, considered by the Western intelligentsia to be the very epitome of enlightened Islamism, wrote a New York Times op-ed in which… Continue reading

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Media and Middle East: Wow, These People are Repressive Dictators! Who Knew?

For those of us who have been trying to talk about Middle East dictators for a long time it is amusing to see how people are lining up to be “horrified” by… Continue reading

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A Garland Of Myths

The distortion of history, ancient and modern, basic to the Arab-British resistance to Jewish restoration, had been fully articulated by 1948. After 1948, the Arabs added greater depth and vehemence in presentation and with it a theme of hatred of the Jews, comparable only to the demonology of medieval Christianity or the excesses of German Nazi propaganda in our own age… Continue reading

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Arafat and His Legacy: No To Peace, No To Compromise

Today, the Arafat era’s lessons have been largely swept under the rug: his persistent mendacity, use of terrorism, cynical exploitation of an “underdog” posture to garner sympathy, and unfailing devotion to the dream of wiping Israel off the map. The placing of that last priority over creating a Palestinian state is why… Continue reading

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Yitzhak Rabin’s Vision

On November 1, 1995, just three days before Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, Avner asked him why he made the Oslo agreement deal with Yasir Arafat. Rabin’s answer is… Continue reading