Two peoples, the Palestinians and the Israeli Jews living side by side in peace. The “two-state solution” has been proposed for decades to terminate the increasingly violent Arab-Israeli conflict. It is now being resurrected as the “Road Map,” sponsored by the “quartet,” consisting of the United States, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations.
What [...]
An outcast: Israel is indeed an outcast in the United Nations and thus, by extension, a pariah in the whole world. Though founded in 1948 — over fifty years ago and at about the same time as many other countries in the wake of World War II — its “legitimacy,” its “right to exist,” are [...]
As Adolf Hitler discovered, the Big Lie will eventually be accepted as the truth. The Big Lie, the monster whopper of our time, is that the provinces of Judea/Samaria, often called the “West Bank,” are “occupied territories.”
What are the facts?
The Unrelenting and Virulent Hatred of the Arabs: Will peace ever be possible under those conditions?
After almost sixty years of statehood, Israel is a lone outpost of Western civilization and its values. It is the staunchest ally of the United States in that part of the world – a bulwark of democracy. The Arab nations surrounding it are a swamp of terrorism, corruption, dictatorship, and human enslavement. But the hatred [...]
Jerusalem (“Arab East Jerusalem”). The Arabs have assiduously propagated the myths that Jerusalem is an Arab capital, that (after Mecca and Medina) Jerusalem is their third holy city, and that it is intolerable to them that infidels (Jews) are in possession of it.
The reality of course is that Jerusalem was never an Arab capital and [...]
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Josef Goebbels, the infamous propaganda minister of the Nazis, had it right. Just tell people big lies often enough and they will believe them. The Arabs have learned that [...]
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Israel was founded fifty years ago. It has been a fixture in our lives for all of that time. It has played and continues to play a role — [...]
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In the so-called “Oslo Agreement”, often called the “peace process”, Israel undertook unilaterally to make valuable concessions to the Palestinians, concessions that would eventually enable them to form an [...]
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In 1894, Theodor Herzl, a journalist and thoroughly assimilated Austrian Jew, was assigned by his Vienna paper to cover the notorious Dreyfus trial in France. The experience of seeing [...]
This article was originally posted at NRO by John Derbyshire on 9 May 2002.
Why don’t I care about the Palestinians? It is, of course, wrong of me not to care. It can’t be much fun being a Palestinian. You, or your parents, or your grandparents, ran for their lives in the 1948 war. You — [...]
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It’s now almost three years [NOTE: this article is being reprinted and references to current events are not timely - admin] since that handshake on the White House lawn between the late Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the PLO. The world does little remember that [...]
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There is persistent pressure on Israel to bring “sacrifices for peace”. It is understood that these “sacrifices” mean primarily that Israel should allow its dismemberment, in order to bring peace to the region.
What are the facts?
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As of this writing, [note: this article is being reprinted and the [...]
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In what was a surprise development for many people, Benjamin Netanyahu was [...]
The Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin: Which direction for Israel in the wake of his assassination?
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Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli patriot and military hero. His assassination was an [...]
