Walt and Mearsheimer portray as interchangeable the pro-Israel lobby and the neo-conservatives who have developed Bush\’s foreign policy. Not surprisingly, this report got negative reviews from pro-Israel groups.
Barghouti rose to public attention as a leader of the first Palestinian intifada (1987-1993) and an alternative leadership to Arafat\’s Tunis-based elite. In the 1990s, Barghouti was considered to be a pragmatist, and some even considered him a supporter of the peace process with Israel.
Almost nothing President Bush does during his about-to-begin second term will affect the American future as profoundly as his appointments to the courts.
With just a few minutes to go before we are to take the stage Stan Kritzer, the elder statesman of the Temple Ner Tamid brotherhood, gathers us speakers into a small side room off the main sanctuary for a last minute talking to.
Debates are a chance for the candidates to speak without scripts and show what they truly believe. And in the first presidential debate, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) made a revealing comment.
The current March/April issue of Adbusters magazine features a lead-in piece by editor Kalle Lasn titled, \”Why won\’t anyone say they are Jewish?\” In it, Lasn points out the fact that of the 50 or so neocons influencing United States diplomatic and defense policy either within government or in media and think tanks, about half are Jewish.
Ariel Sharon\’s major policy statement at the Herzliya
security conference last week might have made world headlines, but it\’s far
from clear what the Israeli prime minister has in mind. Sharon called on
Palestinian leaders to open negotiations with Israel and threatened unilateral
About two miles northwest of Bethlehem, Israel\’s much-discussed security fence comes to an end — not with a bang but with a whimper.
Israel launched a string of targeted strikes against terrorist leaders, warning that it would no longer distinguish between political and military echelons of any organization waging terror, including Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat\’s Fatah movement.
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