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...Israel??s ambassador to the U.S. urged Palestinians to cooperate with his nation and work toward establishing definite borders between separate Palestinian and Israeli states in a speech yesterday. Ambassador Daniel Ayalon addressed a full crowd at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night, laying out Israel??s greatest challenges and opportunities for the future, including the threat Hamas poses, the need to cooperate with Palestinians, and the necessity of ending violence in Israel. “We can’t talk and kill each other at the same time...
...these positions are untenable. A legitimate government cannot condone terror and the murder of innocent men, women, and children; it is unacceptable to publicly proclaim support for suicide bombings. When Hamas was first elected to power in January, many were worried that they would maintain their advocacy for Israel??s extermination. At the time, we encouraged foreign nations to continue to provide aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) to give Hamas a chance to moderate its views. Two-and-a-half months have passed, and Hamas has chosen terror and violence rather than peace and reconciliation. In addition...
...prove their claim, Walt and Mearsheimer quote Israel??s founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, as having said at a meeting in the late 1930s: “After the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine...
Zelcer estimated that HSI’s celebration of Israel??s culture this year drew “a couple of hundred people” through the course...
...their paper, Walt and Mearsheimer argued that the “Israel Lobby,” composed of active supporters of Israel, has seized control of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East and made it reflect Israel??s interests more than those of the U.S. Since its publication in the London Review of Books last Thursday, the authors have drawn heated criticism from many academics, including Harvard’s Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and longtime Harvard lecturer Martin Peretz, who is also the editor-in-chief of The New Republic...