Israel

The Ghost of Hitler Has No Place In Today's War on Terrorism

Danielle Celena Belton | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Israel, World War II, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Nazi, Politics News
Danielle Celena Belton

You can't look in the face of every zealot, every enemy and see Hitler's ghost. Hitler's dead. Osama lives. Adapt and learn how to deal with the men and the madness that exists today.

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Israel's 60th: On the Fast Track to the Apocalypse

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, War With Iran, Middle East, Israel 60th Birthday, Israel, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

Those who confuse preemptive with pro-active are those who deliberately blur the boundaries between civilization and chaos.

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Speaking With The Enemy

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Responds to Mccain, George Bush, John McCain, Bush Obama Nazis, Bush Nazis Obama, Obama Foriegn Policy, Barack Obama Appeaser, Bush Nazis, Knesset, Negotiation, Obama Appeasement Response, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Iran, Obama Bush Nazis, Bush Appeasement, Obama Bush Mccain, Israel, Obama Responds to Bush, Bush Obama, North Korea, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

If Bush and McCain want to assert that talking with enemies is appeasement, than virtually every American president--both Republican and Democratic--since WW11 is an appeaser.

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A Two-State Solution for the United States and Israel

David Bromwich | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Bush in Israel, Middle East Politics, Bush Appeasement, Israel, Palestine, George W. Bush and Appeasement, Two-State Solution, Appeasement, Politics News
David Bromwich

Palestinians oppressed by Israeli settlers and looking anywhere they can for help are neither with the United States nor against us. If we treat them as enemies, they may well become enemies.

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Turning Rage Into Reconciliation In Israel

ODE Magazine | Elik Elhanan | Posted 05.18.2008 | Living

Read More: The Giving Life, Israel, Living News

This story was originally posted at ODEMagazine.com. I was born and raised in Jerusalem. I had a normal, happy childhood. I came from a liberal, left...

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What Is Appeasement?

William Bradley | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Kgb, John McCain, Communist Party, Israel, Geore Bush, Knesset, Appeasement, Soviet Union, Cold War, Negotiation, Politics News
William Bradley

John McCain had to choose between supporting his party's president or denouncing his comments as the sort of hostile divisiveness he had himself just denounced. He chose to support Bush.

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Friday Talking Points [32] -- Democrats Throw Bush A Few Elbows

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Baby, Reductio Ad Hitlerum, Hitler, Campaign, Howard Dean, 2008, John Kerry, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, John Edwards, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Uncommitted, Malarky, Dick Durbin, Appeaser, Speaker of the House, Democrat, Joe Biden, 08, Knesset, Democrats, Biden, Barack Obama, Election, Idaho, 08 Election, Borah, Elections, Mddotw, Rahm Emanuel, Poland, Harry Reid, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Kirsten Gillibrand, Senate, Speech, William Borah, Larry Craig, Cowpie, Borah Peak, Gillibrand, Appeasement, Bush, Lieberman, Iran, Senator, Nazis, Middle East, Jew, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Superdelegates, 2008 Campaign, Bullshit, Uncommitted Superdelegates, Godwin's Law, Throwing Elbows, Godwin, Appease, Elbow, House, Get a Life, 2008 Elections, 2008 Election, Jewish, 08 Campaign, 2008 Presidential Race, Nazi, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Borah Peak, at 12,662 feet high, is the highest point in Idaho. [That may sound like a strange place to begin this column, but please bear with me.] I...

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Arab and Muslim Extremists Undermine a Just Cause

Ray Hanania | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, Arab Community, Palestine, Israel, President Bush, Palestinians, Barack Obama, Extremism, Politics News
Ray Hanania

The Arab American leadership is trying to play it both ways. It wants to satisfy the growing American public demand that they act with principle, while tolerating the intolerable hate speech and extremist rhetoric that is dominating the community's lexicon.

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Bush's Sermon on Mount Masada

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israel, Obama, Hamas, Bush, Knesset, War With Iran, Iran, Israel 60th Birthday, Politics News
MJ Rosenberg

When Bush tells Israelis that he is ready for war on Israel's behalf, he is giving currency to an idea that harms Israel. And Jews.

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Strategery: Bush Attacks Obama and Weakens America

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pepe Escobar, Democratic Primary, Comfort of Appeasement, Nancy Pelosi, Senator Biden, Matthew Palevsky, Middle East, Obama, Iran, Election 2008, The Real News, President Bush, Israel, Politics News
Matthew Palevsky

Instead of focusing on the ethics of mudslinging, more should follow Biden's lead and address the potentially dire ramifications of Thursday's reckless hubris.

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Bush Visits the World He Created: How Dare He Criticize Anyone

James Zogby | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palestine, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Afghanistan War, George W. Bush, Politics News
James Zogby

The broader Middle East, in this the last year of George W. Bush's presidency, is more troubled, less secure, and less hopeful than it was at the beginning of his term in office.

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Talking with Terrorists? Happens All the Time

Michael Goldfarb | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palestine, Israel, Obama, Appeasement, Bush, Blair, Politics News
Michael Goldfarb

If you want to resolve conflicts you have to talk... sometimes on the QT, sometimes through the media, sometimes face to face. But in the end you talk.

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A Sublime Moment For Cable TV -- Chris Matthews interviewing Kevin James On Appeasement

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 05.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Iran, Nazis, Neville Chamberlain, Kevin James, Czechoslovakia, Israel, Mark Green, Chris Matthews, Barack Obama, Appeasement, Media News
Thomas de Zengotita

Chris Matthews did it Thursday night. He transcended his medium. It isn't just an insight into Kevin James personally -- it's the whole know-nothing culture of jingoistic absolute conviction he represents.

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All the President's Nazis (Real and Imagined): An Open Letter to Bush

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israel, Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, Political Dirty Tricks, George W. Bush, Knesset, Politics News
Larisa Alexandrovna

Your reckless verbiage and partisan pandering using something as tragic and criminal as Germany's war of aggression against Poland is an insult to all victims of those atrocities.

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George W. Bush's Magical Closet of Democracy

Seth Grahame-Smith | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Bush Hamas, Bush in Israel, Bush Israel, George W. Bush, Israel, Hamas, Bush, Politics News
Seth Grahame-Smith

There Bush was, pretending to be a "friend" to the Jews, excoriating those who would dare to negotiate with the enemies of Israel and the United States.

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Swift Boating Comes to Jerusalem

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Iran, Barak Obama, John McCain, Lebanon., Jerusalem, Israel, Congress, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Hezbollah, Hamas, Biden, North Korea, Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Because Bush has little to offer in the way of a new American Middle East strategy, he preyed on Israelis' worst fears. That's quite a birthday present to a nation that has endured so much.

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What Good is Winning the Wars if you Lose the Peace?

Mark Levine | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Shimon Peres, War on Terror, Ehud Olmert, Oslo, Israel, Palestine, Holocaust, Plo, Hamas, Bush, Politics News
Mark Levine

It does not matter to the collective Israeli psyche that there has been a generation of peace with Egypt, a decade-and-a half with Jordan, and strong relations with Turkey and Morocco.

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Bush Uses Holy Land Pulpit to Launch Smear Campaign

Paul Begala | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Libya, Obama Iran, Bush Nazis, Bush Israel, Middle East, Iran, Israel, Bush Obama Attack, North Korea, Bush Obama, George W. Bush, Politics News
Paul Begala

So deep is the president's cynicism that he would go on foreign soil to invoke history's greatest crime to condemn conduct he himself has engaged in. I am ashamed that such a man represents me.

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Sixty Years After the 1948 War

Sandy Tolan | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, David Ben-Gurion, Israel 60th Anniversary, Israel, Politics News
Sandy Tolan

Sixty years after the 1948 war, we are intimate with the tragic history of one side, while the traumatic roots of the other remain largely obscured.

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Obama and Israel: Goldberg Asks the Tough Questions

Tom Teicholz | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Jeffrey Goldberg, Barak Obama, Obama and Israel, The Atlantic, Israel, Obama, Barack Obama and Israel, Politics News
Tom Teicholz

Obama should stop pussyfooting around -- no more nuanced conversation and put himself in a place where he can answer the tough questions about Israel.

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Should Obama Get My Vote?

Haim Watzman | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israel, Obama, Expatriates, Election, Voting, Barack Obama, Politics News
Haim Watzman

This coming U.S. election will in large measure set the course of my children's lives, even though I live in Israel. Maybe I should set my principles aside and cast that vote for Obama.

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Obama Is Best for Israel -- What's Complicated Here?

Gershom Gorenberg | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel, Barack Obama, Obama Israel, Politics News
Gershom Gorenberg

A reporter says that Obama has a Jewish problem; the media herd grabs the story; the less-informed believe the next crank email they get because -- hey -- didn't you hear that Obama has a Jewish problem?

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2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Slams Clinton's "Obliteration" Remark: She is Exception to the Norm

Omid Memarian | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Jews, Shirin Ebadi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Jews in Iran, Iran, John McCain, Cyrus the Great, Oblitration, Peace, Noble Peace Prize Laureate, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Oblitration Iran, Politics News
Omid Memarian

"My reply to people such as Mrs. Clinton, who use their fear of Israel's destruction as an excuse to attack Iran, is to remind them that Iran has been a refuge for Jewish people for centuries."

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The Israel I Was Fighting For

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Israeli-Arabs, Jewish Culture, Statehood, Israel, Nations, Diversity, Israelis Palestinians, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

Sixty years ago, when I was fighting for Israel during its war of independence, I won a lot of respect. Now many of my liberal colleagues, including Jewish ones, raise their eyebrows.

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Bush In Israel: Standing With One Side

Sandy Tolan | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, George W. Bush, Israel, Israel 60th Birthday, Nakba, Israelis Palestinians, Politics News
Sandy Tolan

When President Bush steps off his plane to help Israel mark its 60th birthday, he will stride firmly into the past of one side. What he won't hear is the Palestinian story.

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