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...rare in this country, where criticizing Israeli policies is easily demonized as being “anti-Semitic,” that a forum for an unequivocally pro-Palestinian viewpoint receives much attention. Hopefully, this turnout is not merely indicative of a chance to hear about the conflict first-hand, but rather of a new willingness to hear the “other side” in the Middle East conflict...
Harvard has taken an important and positive step in supporting this event. Israel has long been the darling of the U.S. media in this conflict, and the complimentary image it continues to hold will be barely scratched by these children’s photographs. Supporters of the Israeli occupation may denounce what the presenters said as inflammatory, but, in the end, the pictures speak for themselves: Each one depicts a real life experience of these teenagers. The event wasn’t about a scholarly or policy-based critique. It intended to offer a truthful, ground-level perspective...
Instead of having the TSA both regulate and operate airport security—a clear conflict of interest—we should leave the government to its proper oversight role and revert to the old system of private airport security provision. If the free market can protect Israel’s airports, where screeners are run by private companies, there’s no reason to believe it can’t guard American ones...
...ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for example, he argues that Christian-American faith works to support the Israelis, while economic concerns fall in favor of the Arabs. Rather than informing the American people about the Middle East, popular depictions by everyone from Mark Twain to Edith Wharton to Disney tend to propagate a fantastic image of the region...
Although Oren’s book cannot offer any magical potions to solve America’s conflict in the Middle East, it makes the necessary attempt to counter the nation’s ignorance and unblinkingly inform the American people of their long and complex history with a region whose future is so intimately tied up with theirs. And that knowledge may be the beginnings of a solution, in and of itself...