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By Vic Rosenthal

In a recent article, Camp David 2000 negotiator Dennis Ross discusses the way Carter and Arafat misrepresented the Clinton/Barak proposal, which he summarizes as follows:

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The ADL reports that 14 members of the Carter Center’s “Board of Councillors” have resigned because of statements Carter made in the book and while promoting it. The ADL doesn’t mention it, but these board members are Jewish.

The book is not only embarrassingly biased, but Carter’s remarks about the “Jewish lobby” verge on antisemitism.

Is this only visible to Jews? Why didn’t any non-Jewish members of the board join them?

By Vic Rosenthal

Lately, construction of the security fence has been slowed by environmental issues, budgetary problems, and the ever-popular legal challenges. This is unfortunate, because there is good reason to believe that the fence, where it has been completed, has been successful in reducing terrorist infiltrations.

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By Vic Rosenthal

A Syrian representative at the Mideast peace conference that kicked off in Madrid on Thursday afternoon said that his country’s calls to renew negotiations with Israel expressed the needs and will of the entire region.

Doctor Ya’ad Daoudi said that the return of the Golan Heights was a vital step in establishing regional peace and that Israel must return to the 1967 borders…

Osama el-Baza, the political advisor to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, said that Israel needed to be pressured into renewing talks with Syria because Damascus “holds the key to the region.” – Jerusalem Post

We are beginning to see some of the Lebanese-war chickens coming to roost.

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By Vic Rosenthal

Ze’ev Chafets in the LA Times:

Given the evident failure of American diplomacy and U.N. sanctions, Israel has two basic choices. It can sit and wait, hoping the Iranians do not drop a bomb on Tel Aviv; or it can preemptively attack, hoping to destroy, or at least retard, the Iranians’ nuclear capacity…

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