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Where Rhetoric Lines Up for a Lashing
Deborah Danino / “I cannot stand him anymore,” said S. “He is a liar.” / “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!” added O. / / At first, this seems like an innocuous and banal exchange – albeit petty – between colleagues indulging in.. |
Ariel harkham / Last week a dramatic exchange a generation in the making ensued, Netanyahu and Abbas squared off on the world scene, delivering at the UN what amounted to these two nations conflicting narratives. Since then the dust has settled somewhat and the conflict marches on. Abbas, surrounded by applauding.. |
Michael Weinberg The unarguable objective of baseball is to cross home base safe. / / I first visited Israel in 2001 during the height of the murderous uprisings also plainly referred to as “the intifada”. I came again for yeshiva in 2005 and made aliyah in 2006. I have been here in times of quiet.. |
Raphael Harkham Marking the fourth anniversary of Gilad Shalit's capture, many in the country are uniting to call on the government to do everything it can to bring him back home. But even these people must concede that there are compelling reasons for the Israeli government's hesitation in releasing hundreds.. |
Eden Palanuk The New York Times Excuse / April 20, 2010 / / Even in the absence of a day with headlines on incursions into Gaza, missile deliveries to Hizballah, political scandal, or espionage, the New York Times never misses an opportunity to write plaintive articles about Israel. That Ethan Bronner’s.. |
Ariel Harkham *This article appeared in American Thinker 14/02/10 >>> click here / / A short fifteen-minute drive outside Kerbala, Iraq, one can witness the frontlines of the clash between East and West, Islamism and progress. There, in the small town of Al-Kifl, lies -- at least at the time of this writing.. |
Ariel Harkham Israel continues to govern itself into oblivion. Watching the current ruling coalition attempt to fix the all too obvious problems within an unhealty Israeli political reality, one is simply astounded by the solutions thus far offered by the 19th Knesset for its remedy. The measures being taken are.. |
JNI It is now a reflexive cliche for people -- on both the right and left, both in and outside of politics -- to blame the "Israel lobby" or, in more insidious instances, the "Lobby" (capital "L" included) for silencing discussion about Israel and numerous other issues in political life. This claim.. |
Brad Bernstein “Israel must make every effort to limit civilian casualties.”I keep seeing this either as a quote in the NY Times Op-Ed or a statement from the US State Dept or any other number of organizations or countries chiming in on the current "war" in Gaza.It was the same thing during the Second Lebanon War,.. |
Ariel Harkham The moment Jacques Chirac, president of France, pronounced Israel's actions in Lebanon at the early stages of the war to be "disproportionate", a new school of prejudice was born. Today, the fatuous claim of Israeli disproportionate action has established itself as the new canard to level at.. |
JNI Martial arts experts from formalistic styles like karate to raw brawling approaches like MMA teach that a fight turns into a lynch when the victim-to-be starts to cower and withdraw. The aggressors, for whatever reason, are emboldened by the victim's stance of helplessness and so the lynch begins.With.. |
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