Itamar Marcus

J Street Needs Another Lane

David Suissa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Beinart, Rabbi David Saperstein, J-Street, Palestinians, Peaceniks, Irsael, Khaled Abu Toameh, Itamar Marcus, World News
David Suissa

If the goal is to bring together Israel and Palestine, isn't it important to scrutinize both sides? J Street's relentless focus on pressuring Israel isn't only unfair, it's also remarkably ineffective.

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Of Madness and Muslim Martyrdom: The Ideal Age of Indoctrination

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Media Watch, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Shiism, Islam, Itamar Marcus, Suicide Bombers, Gaza, Afghanistan, Martyrdom, Pakistan, Terrorism, Ayatullah Khomeini, Radical Islam, Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships, Hamas, Islamist Terrorism, Saudi Arabia, Quran, Israel, Iraq, Trouw, Children's Rights Institute, World News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

Suicide martyrdom operations have now become so commonplace that as a viewership we are badly inured to them. Its worth remembering that the ideology supporting fanatical attacks may begin long before adulthood.

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Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Shoah, Pbs, The Partition, Gaza Blockade, Turkey, Gaza, Pehr Granqvist, Hamas, Jose Liht, Israeli Defense Force, Holocaust Deniers, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Rafah, Immanuel Kant, Ummah, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Media Watch, Holocaust, Suicide Bombers, Terrorism, Pakistan, Noah Efron, Gaza Flotilla, Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships, Robert Satloff, Templeton Foundation, Darfur, Lahore, Fraser Watts, Operation Cast Lead, Bar Ilan University, Riyadh, Muslim, Among-the-Righteous, Cambridge University, Tom Friedman, Itamar Marcus, Ahmadiyya Movement, Thomas Friedman, Kathleen Taylor, World News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

When will we understand that Israel's security problem is everyone's security problem, that a threatened Jew is a threatened Muslim?

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The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Media Watch, Islam, Senate Appropriations Committee, Itamar Marcus, Radicalization, Terrorism, Childrens-Rights-Institute, Amos Oz, Islamic Extremists, Sucide Bomber, Hamas, Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, Brooke Goldstein, Counterterrorism, Martyr, Farfour, Hillary Clinton, Muslim, Israel, Richard Horowitz ESQ, Politics News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

I was humbled. Itamar's draining, devastating work was ultimately about an Israeli Jew who cared deeply about Muslim children, a lone green shoot of hope sprouting forth from lakes of blood.

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Claims of Bias in Palestinian Textbooks: The Other Side of the Story

Jillian York | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Media Watch, Itamar Marcus, West Bank, Al Khader, Harold Evans, Palestine, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, Bethlehem, Palestinian Authority, Textbooks, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Palestinian Textbooks, Efrat, Efrata, Cmip, World News
Jillian York

An article by Harold Evans today purports that Palestinian children are being taught the values of martyrdom and war in school. The author and the sources he quotes are deeply biased.

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