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Category Archives: Israel
Prof. John Mearsheimer: “Turkish Foreign Policy: A Realist’s Assessment”
Published on Oct 9, 2012: Prof. John Mearsheimer from University of Chicago gave a lecture entitled “Turkish Foreign Policy: A Realist’s Assessment” on 4 October 2012 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey. John Mearsheimer says: … Continue reading
Jewish Intensity As A Weapon For Defending Jewish Interests
Karin Friedman is Jewish but not a Zionist. I have mixed feelings about what she writes. Narrowed vision and emotional intensity can be helpful in war and Jews have good reasons for thinking they are constantly at war. Seeing both … Continue reading
Stefan Molyneaux on Israel and the Nature of Judaism
I am not sure why Stefan Molyneaux puts so much reliance on strongly anti-Judaic sources. Judaism has a complex relationship to free speech. Jewish texts such as the Talmud often contain many different points of view, including unpopular minority views. … Continue reading
Jewish Groups Lead Push To Crack Open Doors to Syria Refugees
If Jews deserve to preserve their people and heritage, which I believe they do, then surely non-Jews such as the Germans, Swedes, Australians, English etc also deserve to preserve their heritage and keep enemy aliens (Muslims, Africans, etc) out. Every … Continue reading
The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners
John J. Mearsheimer is widely regarded as the most important political scientist in America today. I respect his work. Yet his prediction and prescription for Israel in this 2010 talk bewilders me. Regrettably, the two-state solution is now a fantasy. … Continue reading
Mondoweiss: The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s perverted stance on ‘tolerance’
From Mondoweiss in 2010: Why does the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) have nothing to say about the rabbinical edict circulating in Israel—currently signed by more than four dozen rabbis—forbidding the sale or rental of homes to non-Jews? Or, why has … Continue reading
Talking about Immigration with Youth: Ethics, Equity and Empathy
* Link: Talking about Immigration with Youth: Ethics, Equity and Empathy By Linda S. Blanshay Director, Program Development, Museum of Tolerance This 2014, each of the participating sites in the National Dialogues on Immigration project will be contributing to our … Continue reading
Love and Mercy
I’m watching this 2014 movie Love and Mercy about Brian Wilson. Half of it takes place in the 1960s and the California beaches seem so white. There’s not a Mexican in sight. Today you go to the Santa Monica beach … Continue reading
Book Review: The Israel Lobby
Daniel Levy writes from Israel: I have not commented thus far on the publication of the Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer book on the Israel lobby. The reason is simple – I agreed to review the book for Haaretz and … Continue reading
The Israel Lobby
Israeli peace activist and journalist Uri Avnery writes: There are books that change people’s consciousness and change history. Some tell a story, like Harriet Beech Stowe’s 1851 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, which gave a huge impetus to the campaign for the … Continue reading