Archive for December, 2006

In order to destroy, first delegitimize

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

As prelude to the Shoah, there came vicious Nazi propaganda aimed at convincing the German people and their allies that the Jewish people is the enemy of Mankind. Now, as preliminary to the physical attack that could “wipe Israel from the map,” comes an Iranian campaign to delegitimize Israel in the eyes of the world. The Holocaust Conference in Teheran this week is one step in this effort to prepare for an attack on Israel that would bring about its destruction.”

Shalom Freedman, writing from Jerusalem,  warns of the ideological offensive lately mounted against Israel all over the world and especially in the United States.  Read it here.

Pipes calls the ISG report ‘moronic’

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

“…one wonders how exactly the Iraqi civil war would be ended by pleasing the Palestinian Arabs. Or why the unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict is any more relevant to Iraq than the unresolved Azeri-Armenian conflict, which is closer to Iraq.” Read the complete article here.

The Iraq Study Group recommends…giving up Israel

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

By Vic Rosenthal

The report of the Iraq Study Group (the Baker-Hamilton Commission) was released this morning. I haven’t had time to read it all, and I’m not qualified to evaluate the recommendations therein that directly bear on Iraq. However, the report does refer to the Arab-Israeli conflict and makes concrete action recommendations regarding it. I was struck by the way this material seemed to be ‘stuck into’ the report, justified only by the entirely unsupported assertion that “The United States will not be able to achieve its goals in the Middle East unless the United States deals directly with the Arab-Israeli conflict.”

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