The Huffington Post, September 8, 2010 Maan News Agency, September 10, 2010 Peace talks and the Israeli school year have started at about the same time. Which is more worthy of your attention? The school year. Peace talks are doomed to fail. Hamas, a key player, is being excluded. Just four months ago, Israeli Prime …
The Guardian, August 26, 2010 Today the New York Times reported that a pastor in my hometown of Gainesville, Florida is planning to “commemorate” September 11 by publicly burning Korans. The photograph that accompanied the story showed the pastor, Terry Jones, standing in a field of grass behind signs that read “Islam is of the …
Tablet, August 25, 2010 In the fourth grade, I stopped saying the pledge of the allegiance. While the other children clapped their hands to their hearts, I stood, my arms limp, lips still. It was not an act of rebellion, nor did I intend to disrespect the United States. I’d simply decided—after several classmates had …
Maan News Agency, August 20, 2010 Alarms sounded through Israel’s leftist camps recently when Jewish-Israeli activist Yonatan Shapira was summoned for an interview with General Security Services, also known by the Hebrew acronym Shabak. The interrogation came in the wake of the May detention and arrest of Ameer Makhoul, Palestinian-Israeli director of Ittijah—a platform for …