“The Middle East has gone from an addiction to a distraction”
And too often we forget that the people in these countries are not just...
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“Emotional reactions have had – and are likely to continue to have – little affect on terror”
As long as Palestinian Arabs refuse to take any responsibility for their condition and...
“Palestinian Arabs have been somewhat stumped by what has been dubbed ‘lone-wolf operations'”
Palestinian Arabs have been somewhat stumped by what has been dubbed “lone-wolf operations.” In...
“Middle Eastern states are imploding and exploding all around, and what is coming to replace them is, interestingly, not nationalism”
Regionally — we are, finally, witnessing the collapse of the nation state order put...
“Israel today is surrounded on four out of five borders…. No other country faces such a threat”
Israel today is surrounded on four out of five borders — South Lebanon, Gaza,...
“We seem to take for granted that Arab countries can’t catch up to Israel on the freedom front, but isn’t that the bigotry of low expectations?”
Imagine if the young people who risked their lives protesting during the long-gone Arab...
“Gaza could have become a showcase of Arab enlightenment and enterprise”
Gaza could have become a showcase of Arab enlightenment and enterprise after Israel withdrew from the territory in 2005. It could have become a tourism haven and a crucible for learning and arts, science and technology.
Instead, Gaza has become a one-party Islamic dictatorship under Hamas, dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel.
Thousands of precious lives have been lost in this macabre display of hatred disguised as piety.
Its not just Israeli Jews that have been targeted for death. Palestinians opposed to Hamas have been massacred to consolidate its power.
Tarek Fatah, “Stop the Jew-hatred and build Palestine”, Toronto Sun (22 July 2014) [Available online at http://www.torontosun.com/2014/07/22/stop-the-jew-hatred-and-build-palestine]
“All sides have reasons to cling to the Two-State illusion”
All sides have reasons to cling to this illusion. The Palestinian Authority needs its...
Biblical Events “might indeed offer some guidance for the future”
Do the foregoing events bear any lessons for modern Israel? In one sense they...
“When the enemy is nested in homes and apartments and no one wears a uniform but everyone has a cellphone camera, you have a real strategic and moral challenge”
You don’t want to be in these wars. This is not your grandfather’s battlefield. When the enemy is nested in homes and apartments and no one wears a uniform but everyone has a cellphone camera, you have a real strategic and moral challenge — as the U.S. has discovered with its own drone wars. It’s hard to defeat this enemy without killing a lot of civilians. It’s no accident that every Israeli brigade now has a legal adviser.
Thomas L. Friedman, “A Wonderful Country”, The New York Times (2 February 2014), SR11.