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“Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire” until the early 20th century.” “I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places, and for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940s, and it’s tragic.” Newt Gingric…
…Palestinians did not: they condemned them. Why? Part of Netanyahu’s concessions consisted of two demands upon the Palestinians. Unfortunately, for the rest of the world, the Palestinian leaders refuse to accept them. For one, Palestine must accept that the capital of Israel is Jerusalem. And two, the Arab World and particularly the Palestinians must recognize Israel’s right to exist. First, we will discuss the Jerusalem situation as this is the m…
… seemed on the superficial level to offer continuity, it was actually an ideological reversal, back to the Liberal wing of the Republican Party. Though he lambasted his opponent Michael Dukakis, tarring him with the “Liberal” label, which Reaganism had turned into a dirty word, Bush himself was every bit a Progressive. His admitted trouble with “the vision thing” prevented him from continuing with Reagan’s unfinished work: shrinking government, e…
…e Palestinians believe they were wronged when their land was given by the UK at the end of WWII to create the Jewish homeland. They will not have full peace with Israel unless they are given land by Israel for the creation of Palestine. President Obama has taken the position that this so called Two-State Solution is the best solution for the problem. And, there are many Israelis that agree with him. However, the far right wing in Israel is veheme…
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
…of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congress is Useless” all about? http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/11/congress-is-useless/ And all that is supported in academia today is under the myth of “academic freedom”. Collectivism and totalit…
Egypt – The beginning of turmoil in the Middle East – 2011 Will Obama lose Iraq? This is not insignificant question, since Obama inherited a winning situation in Iraq but now he is in danger of making our sacrifice in Iraq meaningless. The goal of the incoming administration should have been to establish a relationship with the new government while allowing a drawdown of our troops, but Obama simply failed to look at the long term strategic t…
…as named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, which ended without any convictions in a mistrial. They are also accused of being a front for Hamas, being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, associating with anti-Semitism, and have raised concerns within our government about the group’s foreign Arab funding. So they are not the most reliable point man in a civil rights suit. None the l…
If the Arabs put down their weapons today there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today there would be no more Israel. If the Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.–Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you.–Hussein Massawi, former head of the Hezbollah, about the Weste…
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