Columns

What They Are Saying, Oct. 16, 2008

Sharansky's Right: Back Palestinian Democracy, Not Mahmoud Abbas Columnist Jackson Diehl writes in The Washington Post ( www.washingtonpost.com ) on Sept. 22 that changing Palestinian society should be the priority, not vainly pursuing a peace agreement: "Amid the din of the financial crisis and the presidential campaign, the Bush administration's attempt to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace has quietly expired. Secretary...

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Got the Message!

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Robert Leiter

Was I the only one who was totally offended by the Oct. 2 Metro section of The New York Times ? First, there was the photo below the fold on page one showing two men, one checking a PDA, the other his phone, standing outside the doors of what was clearly a synagogue. The small headline read "Checking Market Before...

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Who's Obsessed About 'Obsession?'

Critics of distribution of documentary play into hands of jihadists, not Republicans

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Jonathan S. Tobin

Last month, millions of Americans opened their Sunday newspapers and found amid the usual pile of coupons and advertising flyers something unusual: a free DVD of a documentary called "Obsession: Radical Islam's War with the West." The film, a well-researched foray into the world of Islamo-fascism, features an array of scholars, such as Sir Martin Gilbert, Robert Wistrich and Daniel...

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It's the Truth! Advertisements Expose Facts About Obama

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Matthew Brooks

Recently, columnist Douglas Bloomfield wrote a denunciation of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's critics (Opinions: "Don't Fall for the Extreme Anti-Obama Smear Campaign," Oct. 2) that can only be described as a confused diatribe. There is only one point on which we agree: "[Sen. John] McCain has a strong pro-Israel record, the aura of a war hero, [and] close...

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Bush Just Keeps Kicking the Iranian Can Down the Road

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David Twersky

Lost in the intense focus on the financial crisis was a report in the British Guardian newspaper that the Bush administration had turned down an Israeli request that Washington green-light an Israeli air strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. According to the report, Israel gave serious thought this spring to launching a military strike on Iran's nuclear sites but was told...