In the summer of 2006, while guiding 40 British school children across northern Israel, I found myself caught up in the Middle East conflict when Hizbullah rockets fired from southern Lebanon began raining down.
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Sir, Your report, (“Israeli sanctions ‘will ruin plans to rebuild Palestinian economy’ ”, Dec 17) refers to reports from Oxfam, the World Bank and the Red Cross to support the claim that Israeli restrictions on Gaza are the primary impediment to improving conditions.
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The proverb, 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' characterizes the upshot of the current alignment in the Middle East, namely an alliance between two regional powers: Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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While Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry's American Ethnic Advisory Council may be trying to advance cultural awareness in honor of the state's centennial, the singular promotion of the Muslim faith by distributing personalized and state-seal-embossed Korans is an unusual choice for celebrating American values.
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Free speech, the bedrock of liberal society, is being seriously threatened by an unlikely coalition of British law and wealthy Arabs.
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Several weeks ago the New York State Court of Appeals began hearing arguments in a case with monumental and far-reaching implications for the protection of United States citizens abroad and the rights afforded by the First Amendment.
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Dear British Academe, I am writing to commend you on your brilliant proposal to boycott Israeli universities. I have often wondered how British Academia has received such high acclaim; your boycott reveals that apparently the way to achieve British academic enlightenment is to completely close oneself off from any person or opinion that does not adhere strictly to one’s own beliefs.
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An Israeli professor studying the long-term effects of war on the soldiers who fight is now sharing her knowledge with United States counterparts in an attempt to provide better therapy for American servicemen and women returning home from the battlefields of Iraq.
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If there is one word with which Jimmy Carter would like to be identified, it is “peacemaker.” After all, he helped broker the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel -- the main and, some cynics might add, the only accomplishment of his presidency.
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A grinch has stolen Christmas. Few Christians will be celebrating Christmas this year in Bethlehem. No, the grinch is not Israel. Laying the blame on Israel obscures the true culprit: The growing influence of religious radicalism in the Palestinian Authority.
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It's no secret that although Jerusalem has been reunited for 40 years, Israel's capital is still, for most of its residents, a divided city where Jews and Arabs don't mix. That's what makes the scene at the two campuses of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem so eye-opening.
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In “The War of Fog” (Azure 26, Autumn 2006), David Hazony asserts that there was more “good news” to emerge from Israel’s war with Hezbollah than bad. I, for one, fail to see how Israel can be said to have won its war with Hezbollah when Hazony himself concedes that Israel achieved “none of the objectives” it declared at the war’s outset.
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Since you took office last year, you have wavered between implicit and explicit denial of the Holocaust. If this canard weren't so malicious, it would be almost comical.
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Abraham Foxman’s style may be melodramatic, as James Traub suggests, but he is certainly not exaggerating the resurgence of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist incidents across the globe.
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While the Six-Day War left Israel and the Palestinians in their current deadlock, the war did have its benefits for the Jewish state. The unequivocal victory in 1967 demonstrated to the Arab world that it could not destroy Israel militarily. And it was this recognition by Egypt and Jordan that led to peace agreements with Israel.
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Four years ago Azar Nafisi’s “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” her account of secretly teaching Western literature to seven female students from the University of Tehran, enthralled people around the world.
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Last year, I had the privilege to join President Carter's conflict resolution task team to assist it in the worthy goal of "waging peace." The opportunity to facilitate dialogues between warring parties in conflicts outside of the scope of the Israeli-Arab conflict was a tremendous experience.
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