Rethinking Palestine: A Paradigm Shift From the Political to the Humanitarian
Martin Sherman
JewishJournal.com - 2010-03-18
[Editor's Note: Unity Coalition for Israel co-sponsored the first Jerusalem Summit in October of 2003. It is refreshing to hear Dr.
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Was Obama's confrontation with Israel premeditated?
Yossi Klein Halevi
TNR.com - 2010-03-18
JERUSALEM-Suddenly, my city feels again like a war zone. Since the suicide bombings ended in 2005, life in Jerusalem has been for the most part relatively calm.
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How About an Arab 'Settlement' Freeze?
Ruth R. Wisse
WSJ.com - 2010-03-18
Why are 21 countries with 800 times more land so obsessed with Israel?
When she is surrounded by a swirl of conversation she cannot understand, my two-year-old granddaughter turns to me expectantly: "What they talking about, Bubbe?" Right now, I would have to confess to her that the hubbub over 1,600 new housing units in Jerusalem defies rational explanation.
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America's Shiny New Palestinian Militia
Daniel Pipes
NationalReview.com - 2010-03-18
"The stupidest program the U.S. government has ever undertaken" - last year that's what I called American efforts to improve the Palestinian Authority (PA) military force.
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Jerusalem's Jewish Link – Historic, Religious, Political
Eli E. Hertz
mythsandfacts.org - 2010-03-18
Jerusalem, wrote historian Martin Gilbert, is not a 'mere' city. "It holds the central spiritual and physical place in the history of the Jews as a people."
For more than 3,000 years, the Jewish people have looked to Jerusalem as their spiritual, political, and historical capital, even when they did not physically rule over the city.
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Who's destroying, and who's rebuilding?
Naomi Ragen
Unknown - 2010-03-17
Dear Friends,
The rebuilding and rededication of the Hurva ('ruined') Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem few days ago was a moment of true joy for every Israeli, and every Jew.
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My letter in today's Jerusalem Post
Judith Nusbaum, UCI correspondent
Jpost.com - 2010-03-17
Sir,
I am furious at US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for their unjustified, disgusting and way-over-the-top reaction to our announcement that we are planning to build housing units in our capital, Jerusalem ("Clinton terms Ramat Shlomo project 'insulting,'" March 14).
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The Settlements Aren't the Problem
Bret Stephens
The Wall Street Journal - 2010-03-16
I once got an angry letter from Baruch Goldstein's father. Goldstein, remember, was an Israeli settler who in 1994 entered the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and gunned down 29 Muslim worshippers.
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Netanyahu: no limitations on building in Jerusalem
Unknown
Reuters - 2010-03-15
JERUSALEM: Defying the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected on Monday placing any curbs on building homes for Jews around Jerusalem.
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Is There a Moderate Islam?
Robert Spencer
FrontPage Magazine - 2010-03-17
Over at the NewsReal blog they've been arguing for several days, while I was flying through the air in a tin can, giving a talk, flying elsewhere in another tin can, etc.
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