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FOR YASSER ARAFAT, CRIME CERTAINLY PAID Amir Oren Haaretz, August 26, 2011 Crime doesn’t pay” is a nice saying. When it comes to diplomacy, however, it nearly always does pay. Without murderous terrorism, Yasser Arafat would not have led the Palestinian national movement to many of its achievements, including his successor Mahmoud Abbas’ plan to […]

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“VICTORY” IN LIBYA: NO MODEL FOR U.S. FOREIGN POLICY Doug Bandow Huffington Post, August 31, 2011 It took the greatest military alliance in history five months to push the Libyan rebels across the finish line. Nevertheless, Western politicians are claiming victory. Yet the ultimate consequences of allied intervention remain uncertain. While few mourn the demise […]

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JUSTIFYING MURDER—AN ABOMINATION Isi Leibler Jerusalem Post, August 28, 2011 Even before the Middle Ages, we encountered marginal Jews who turned against their own people. Among apostates to Christianity, there were those who wrote inflammatory libels against the Jews, paving the way for pogroms; socialists like Karl Marx whose vile anti-Semitic tirades speak for themselves; […]

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FROM 9/11 TO THE ARAB SPRING Fouad Ajami Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2011 The Arabic word shamata has its own power. The closest approximation to it is the Germanschadenfreude—glee at another’s misfortune. And when the Twin Towers fell 10 years ago this week, there was plenty of glee in Arab lands—a sense of wonder, […]

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Complot européen sur scène dans le monde arabe: Le Protocole des sages de Sion dans les médias arabes Menahem Milson MEMRI.org, 6 septembre 2011   Ci-dessous un article du cofondateur et conseiller académique du MEMRI, le professeur Menahem Milson, traitant de la large diffusion du Protocole des sages de Siondans le monde arabe, et de […]

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THE 9/11 ‘OVERREACTION’? NONSENSE. Charles Krauthammer Washington Post, September 8, 2011 The new conventional wisdom on 9/11: We have created a decade of fear. We overreacted to 9/11—al-Qaeda turned out to be a paper tiger; there never was a second attack—thereby bankrupting the country, destroying our morale and sending us into national decline. The secretary […]

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WE’LL NEVER GET OVER IT, NOR SHOULD WE Peggy Noonan Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2011 People are discussing the geopolitical implications of 9/11 and how the tragedy changed our country, and most of what’s been said has been worthy and serious. But my thoughts, as we hit the 10th anniversary, are more local and […]

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PALESTINIAN LEADERS TO SEEK THE U.N.’S BLESSING Clifford D. May National Review, September 1, 2011 Late this month, leaders of the Palestinian Authority are expected to issue a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) and ask, in the words of PA foreign minister Nabil Shaath, that it receive “the blessing of the U.N.” That blessing will […]

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“Let me give it to you straight. I believe that President Obama exhibited great hostility to the state of Israel and to its Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu. So I said, what we should do is frame the issue; those people who are upset with Obama’s position on Israel…should vote against the Democrats.”—Former New York City […]

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          ÉLOGE DE LA LUTTE ANTITERRORISTE MUSCLÉE DE LA VILLE DE NEW YORK Daniel Pipes National Review Online, 13 septembre 2011 Version originale anglaise: In Praise of NYC's Muscular Counterterrorism Adaptation française: Anne-Marie Delcambre de Champvert   Les organismes américains d'application de la loi ont généralement réagi au 11 septembre par […]

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THE PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD GAMBIT Editorial Wall Street Journal, September 18, 2011 Are Palestinians entitled to a state? Before certain readers erupt at the mere suggestion that Palestinians may not be so entitled, we’d note that the Kurds—one of the oldest ethnic groups in the world—don’t have a state. Neither do the Tamils of Sri Lanka, […]

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AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN: PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD WOULD SET A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT [National PostManaging Editor for Comment], Jonathan Kay, sat down with Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman during his recent visit to Toronto. Below is an edited transcript of their conversation: Kay: If the Palestinians get what they want at the United Nations General Assembly, how will […]