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Sixty years since its birth, Israel still lives in peril and without peace. Israelis worry about the threat of a nuclear attack from Iran. They worry that Hizballah will pepper them with more missiles launched from southern Lebanon and that Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza will inevitably land in a crowded Negev school yard. And they worry that Palestinian suicide bombers will once again explode in the buses and cafčs of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. "We used to think that every year we survived was a miracle, a gift," an Israeli friend confides gloomily, "but now all I think...
...Dershowitz said Arab states’ rejection of the resolution has hindered the creation of a Palestinian state. During the discussion, Dershowitz said he still advocates a two-state solution. He criticized Chomsky’s vision of a bi-national state modelled after Yugoslavia and Lebanon, calling it a “euphemism for the end of Israel as a Jewish state.” After presenting his own view of the Nakba and related history, Dershowitz answered questions, saying he would only take up questions from audience members who disagreed with him. Some of the questions took...
...United Nation’s (U.N.) vote to partition Palestine, my grandmother had to flee her country in order to escape violence and persecution. -Climbing over rooftops to avoid notice, my grandmother left her family and risked her life to cross the border from Syria into Lebanon, eventually making her way to Italy. My grandmother is only one of approximately 850,000 Jews dispossessed and displaced from Muslim countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf before 1948. Her family had lived peacefully and prosperously in Aleppo, Syria for generations, but after the partition of Palestine, Jews...
...Dubai. The rugs offered to you in the souks of the Middle East are almost certainly the best you will ever see, artifacts from a time when humans made things of meaning and value. Why not salvage them? On the other hand, Hizballah has re-armed, Israel could attack Lebanon again at any time, Iran is probably building nuclear weapons, the surge in Iraq is a mirage, and America is falling apart. Is now the right time to spend $1,000 on a wool...
...policy on Syria for most of the Bush Administration's tenure has been one of malign neglect, although lately Washington has been imposing greater political and economic pressure in the hope of changing Syrian behavior in Lebanon, as well as its role as a transit route for Iraqi insurgents and its support for Palestinian militants. The Syrian regime appears unmoved. And that's unlikely to change for the remainder of the Bush Administration's tenure...