There is no moral equivalent between military action that targeted a terrorist combatant and the targeting of innocent civilians around the world, based on their religion.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
The question has to arise. Why is it acceptable to enter into a cease-fire with Hezbollah but not Hamas? If anything, Hezbollah is more militant than Hamas.
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
Mugniyah's targeting makes the strongest case for the appropriateness of targeted killing of terrorists who are being harbored by states that support terrorism.
Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
One of the world's most notorious terrorists met a violent end late Tuesday night when a car bomb killed Hezbollah's Imad Mughniyeh in the Syrian capi...
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
Mr. Bush's Middle East adventures underscore the enormity of his foreign policy failures, from which it may take America years to recover.
AP | ZEINA KARAM | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
DAMASCUS, Syria — One of the world's most wanted and elusive terrorists, Imad Mughniyeh, was killed in a car bombing in Syria nearly 15 years af...
Lionel Beehner | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics
Why do states (United States, Israel, etc.) engage in so many un-winnable wars with non-state actors?
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
Some of the more conservative American Jewish institutions are coming around to acceptance of the two-state solution, ending the occupation, and sharing Jerusalem.
Jon Soltz | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
So militarily we can't and shouldn't do it, and for security we don't need to do it. So why are White House cronies trying to figure out how to sell war with Iran?
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics
"A Palestinian state, long overdue, can be born before the sun sets on this day. It must be a state that will live in peace and security with Israel."
David Mizner | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
She's confident that progressives are too impotent, divided, and disorganized to deny her the nomination. How else to explain her vote for the Lieberman-Kyl Amendment?
David Bromwich | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
Yesterday she voted to bring the country a serious step closer to war against Iran. And she did so for the same reason that she voted to authorize the war on Iraq.
Mark Levine | Posted 09.05.2007 | Politics
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is being severely criticized because it seems to confirm long-held anti-Semitic beliefs about undue Jewish political power.
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Alan Dershowitz | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics