Doing bin Laden’s Work
for Him

As Israel and Hezbollah again prove racial and religious hatred are the core, irremediable traits of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the international media focuses on each side's weaponry and the evacuees, Osama bin Laden is smiling and praising Allah in his mountain...

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Bringing on ‘World War III’

If you thought that a global conflagration on the order of a World War was more the stuff of Biblical prophecy, science fiction and apocalyptic end-times novels, think again. For years, U.S. neoconservatives have been ratcheting up the rhetoric – mostly in small...

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America Held Hostage

The Israelis are dropping leaflets, as well as bombs, over Beirut. Aside from warnings to stay away from Hezbollah facilities, this little missive stands out: "We all know from the experience of the past few days the massive strength of Israel and its readiness to use...

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All Hell Breaks Loose in the Middle East

U.S. President George W. Bush and his neoconservative advisers had pledged that after ousting Saddam Hussein they would succeed in transforming "liberated" Iraq into a prosperous democracy that would serve as a model of political and economic freedom for the...

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This Will Come Back
to Haunt Us

I rise in opposition to this resolution, which I sincerely believe will do more harm than good. I do agree with the resolution's condemnation of violence. But I am convinced that when we get involved in foreign conflicts and send strong messages, such as this...

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‘The Israel Lobby’ Revisited

Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt created quite a stir earlier this year with their report "The Israel Lobby," which contends that Israeli influence has led the U.S. to adopt self-destructive policies in the Middle East. In the following video...

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No, We’re Not ‘All Israelis Now’

Even in an age when e-mail, word processors, and high-speed Internet connections allow writers to almost instantaneously publish glaringly inchoate offerings, it is not often that one comes across a work as poorly conceived as Larry Kudlow's contribution to National...

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Backtalk, July 20, 2006

Attention-Deficit Americans Are Being Misled to War Conflating the U.S. action in Iraq with Israel's invasion of Gaza and Lebanon is at best an oversimplification, and at worst an outright distortion of fact. It is common knowledge that Iran funds and supports...

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Olmert’s Folly?

Israel's recent response to actions by Hamas and Hezbollah has raised alarms in the region to a higher level than in any time since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Rather than strengthen Israel's security, it might well have weakened it by setting the stage, perhaps...

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