JERUSALEM — Israel and Hamas on Monday accepted an Egyptian cease-fire proposal meant to halt a bruising monthlong war that has claimed nearly 2,000 lives, raising hopes that the bloodiest round of fighting between the bitter enemies could finally be coming to an end. Still, both sides signaled a rough road ahead, with an Israeli […]
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J. Goodman: Israeli actions justified
In her rebuttal letter (July 24), Kathleen Kienitz complained that syndicated columnists Charles Krauthammer and Cal Thomas were “inane” in writing about Israeli action in Gaza. However, she failed to mention any fallacies in their reasoning. It is true, the Palestinians have suffered several hundred losses in Gaza, despite telephone and leaflet warnings from Israel […]
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Cal Thomas: No more aid to the Palestinian Authority
The anti-Semitic “tradition” of blaming Jews for the world’s problems mostly took a temporary back seat in light of the indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israel by the terrorist group Hamas. Major newspaper editorials condemned Hamas, but their condemnation was hedged by calls for “restraint” on “both sides” and “proportionality” in Israel’s response to the attacks. […]
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Charles Krauthammer: Moral clarity in Gaza
WASHINGTON — Israel accepts an Egyptian-proposed Gaza cease-fire; Hamas keeps firing. Hamas deliberately aims rockets at civilians; Israel painstakingly tries to avoid them, actually telephoning civilians in the area and dropping warning charges, so-called roof knocking. “Here’s the difference between us,” explains the Israeli prime minister. “We’re using missile defense to protect our civilians and […]
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Seeds of Peace campers keep tabs on Mid East conflict
Seeds of Peace, a lakeside camp in rural Otisfield has brought together teenagers from countries at war for more than 20 years. Its counselors, also from Middle Eastern countries, say they all are united by fear of the violence raging overseas and a hope that their generation will be the one to end it. At […]
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Austin Bay: Missile defense system generates diplomatic power
According to the Israeli government, in this latest round of Israel-Hamas combat, Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system has (so far) intercepted 90 percent of targeted incoming Hamas rockets. Iron Dome is a very sophisticated tactical (short-range) anti-missile and anti-artillery projectile defense system. In terms of combat operations, Iron Dome’s “sensor-shooter” system is a drastically […]
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Cal Thomas: Obama leads America to quitter status
Defenders of President Obama’s release of five Taliban terrorists from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl cite as justification Israel’s history of swapping hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for one or two Israel soldiers. As strong an ally and example of democracy as Israel is, especially in a […]
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In rebuttal, K. Kienitz: U.S. needs tough love policy with Israel
Was it coincidence or sinister strategy that just as John Kerry embarked on renewed Middle East peace talks, Israel announced plans to build yet another massive settlement in the West Bank? Also coinciding was a guest column by Howard Segal (Sun Journal, Dec. 29) bemoaning the fact that academic organizations are calling for the boycott […]
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Ariel Sharon, Israel’s bulldozer in politics, dies at 85
JERUSALEM — It was vintage Ariel Sharon: His hefty body bobbing behind a wall of security men, the ex-general led a march onto a Jerusalem holy site, staking a bold claim to a shrine that has been in contention from the dawn of the Arab-Israeli conflict. What followed was a Palestinian uprising that put Mideast […]
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Howard Segal: Boycott of Israel goes too far
Soon after I started graduate school at Princeton in 1970, I joined the American Studies Association and have been a faithful member ever since. I have served on the editorial advisory board of its distinguished journal, American Quarterly, and have contributed occasionally to it. What began in the post-World War II years as an organization […]