Arab-Israeli Conflict

Arab-Israeli Conflict

False Assumptions Prevent Resolution of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict

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Summary ... While Palestinian leaders claim they want land for peace, in more than 72 years they've refused many offers. It appears their true goal is to remove Jews entirely from the region. Dear Friend of FLAME: A 2016 clip of then-Secretary of State John Kerry claiming that, "There will be no   read more ...

The Two-State Solution's Inconvenient Truths

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As long as there was some hope that negotiation could produce a solution to the conflict with the Arabs, Israel and it supporters generally refrained from calling attention to several objective factors that have always made the so-called "two-state" solution impossible. In the wake of UNSCR 2334   read more ...

The 1929 Mass Murder of Jews for the Sin of Sitting While Praying

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Summary ... Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of [IBM and the Holocaust][1]. This article is based on research from [Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict][2] (Dialog Press). His latest book is [The Farhud: Roots of   read more ...

Israel's Partners for Peace: What They Say in English vs. What They Say in Arabic

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A number of senior Palestinian [sic] officials who do not have much credibility among their own people are now trying to sell themselves to Israelis as "partners for peace." This is the same group of Palestinians who in the past advised Yasser Arafat to reject then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak's offer   read more ...

Why Condolences?

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Upon the death of Yasir Arafat, [U.S.] President George W. Bush declared, "We express our condolences to the Palestinian people." Why condolences? Would it be appropriate to offer condolences to the German people upon the death of Adolph Hitler? Must not the German people be held responsible for   read more ...

Unsettling Thoughts on Israel's 'Occupation'

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Some 30 years ago Abba Eban, Israel's foreign minister, commenting on the heavy bias the Arabs enjoy in the UN General Assembly, declared that if the Arabs were to propose to the UN a resolution that the earth was flat, it would be passed by an overwhelming majority. Nothing has changed since then   read more ...

Explaining the Arab-Israeli Conflict Through Numbers

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Summary ... This is a brief synopsis of the moral arguments in the Arab-Israeli conflict. For the many readers who have requested a brief synopsis of the moral arguments in the Arab-Israeli conflict, I offer the following list of numerical data. Number of times Jerusalem is mentioned in the Old   read more ...