Can Israel Afford to Eliminate Arafat?
April 4, 2002
Burdened with the intrigues of this murderer and terrorist for 40 years, it must now make a crucial final accounting: Is Arafat worth more to them dead or alive?
Avi Davis
PRO
January 31, 2002
Scottish philosopher David Hume hit the nail on the head when he observed that \”the heart of man always attempts to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.\” Hume, of course, wasn\’t thinking of Palestinian apologists back in 1749. But he certainly wouldn\’t have been ashamed of applying his pithy aphorism to their persistent bouts of moral incoherence.
Peace Depends on Education
December 13, 2001
In the Arabic world, education systems are riven with notions antithetical to the values of tolerance and understanding that are so intently promoted in the West. In recent years, the signal failures of those systems to reverse years of misguided teachings appear to be dooming the region to years of further conflict.
The Dangers of a Palestinian State
November 22, 2001
While the words may not come naturally to his lips, the president of the United States is talking openly these days about the creation of a Palestinian state.
A Swift, Immediate Reaction
September 13, 2001
Watching the second tower of the World Trade Center crumble into dust on Tuesday, I was able to imagine the horror of the survivors of the Titanic as they witnessed their vessel sink into the Atlantic Ocean. A symbol of human progress and ingenuity, a monument to economic strength and power, the Titanic was regarded as indestructible. So too the World Trade Center represented, more than any other edifice in the United States, America\’s sense of its own power and invulnerability. Rising more than 100 stories high, these towers once so effectively dominated the New York skyline that in the air they could be seen from 150 miles away. When a 1993 car bomb failed to destroy them, the sense of invulnerability may have also given way to a sense of complacency.
Big Mac Lessons
May 6, 1999
The anguish of having a child reject the teachings and practices with which they are raised, troubles hundreds of thousands of parents from all cultures and backgrounds every day.
Opinion
June 18, 1998
The sight of Israeli Minister of Tourism Moshe Katzav being kissed by Israeli singer and Eurovision song contest winner Dana International must have made someone, somewhere blush. But you wouldn\’t have known it by reading any of the Israeli papers last week. With the kind of glee that is only reserved in the Holy Land for the smashing of idols, Israeli editorialists pounced on Dana\’s victory as further proof that Israel, having produced not just a Eurovision contest winner, but a transsexual one, has finally arrived as a nation among nations. So finally, we have the good word from Israel: Androgyny is in. Ethnocentricism (read Judaism with its intolerance for diversity and priggish emphasis on sexual purity), is most definitely out.
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