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"Israelis Dont Want to Leave the West Bank"
April 2, 2010A Goldblog reader writes:In your recent post on AIPAC, you wrote this: “and most American Jews understand the difference between the legitimate security needs of the State of Israel and the theological, political and economic needs of the small minority of Israelis who have settled the West Bank.”
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Juan Coles Anti-Israel Propaganda Campaign
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PETRAEUS: CONTAINMENT OF A NUCLEAR IRAN UNACCEPTABLE EVEN TO ARAB STATES
March 7, 2010“Sophisticated” foreign policy analysts agree with Ahmadinejad that a nuclear Iran is a fait accompli and containment is the only viable response to it. It would mean bringing the Middle East, including Israel, under the American nuclear umbrella. Former Secretary of state James Baker advocated just such a policy on Fareed Zakaria GPS a couple [...]
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Is the Western Wall a Synagogue?
February 9, 2010Below is an article (tshuvah) by Rabbi David Golinkin of the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem–the seminary that trains Masorti (Conservative) rabbis in Israel. I don’t agree with all of his conclusions (namely, he seems to imply but not state outright that Women of the Wall shouldn’t fight for equal rights to pray at the [...]
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Forest Wars: Just In Time For Tu B’Shvat
January 29, 2010Just in time for Tu B Shvat! This is a fight that has been going on since well before I was a college forest activist, trying to prevent the State of Oregon to preserve the last un-logged watershed in the state. We didn’t succeed. Today a lawsuit was filed to halt a slate of new [...]
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Liberman’s “loyalty law”: an effort to push Arabs out of the Knesset
January 3, 2010The Knesset’s ministerial legislative committee is about to vote today on Israel Beitenu’s (Avigdor Liberman’s party) “loyalty law”, which will change the oath all MK’s take at the beginning of each Knesset term, from swearing loyalty to “the State of Israel and its laws,” to swearing loyalty to the State of Israel as a “Jewish [...]