"How could you report the war in Iraq if you sided with the Americans?" "How can you say that George Bush is better than Saddam Hussein?" These are some of the milder questions I received from an audience of some 150 undergraduate students from Tel Aviv University's Political Science Department. The occasion was a guest... [ Read entire Post ]
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December 2003 Archives
December 26, 2003 at 2:13 PM
Of intellectual bondage
December 19, 2003 at 2:00 PM
Our national debate
The US war on terror hit a new high and a new low this week. The capture of Saddam Hussein was a great victory. It showed that as far as the ousted Iraqi regime is concerned, President Bush is fulfilling the pledge he made on September 20, 2001, that, when it comes to fighting international... [ Read entire Post ]
December 15, 2003 at 1:41 PM
Psychological Blow: Saddam's humiliation is Iraqis' victory
The 20-day ground offensive that ended with the fall of Baghdad on April 9 to U.S. forces was characterized as much by the levelheaded courage of the men who fought it as by its speed and brilliance of execution. Its signature finish -- the fall of Saddam Hussein's statue in downtown Baghdad -- was celebrated in... [ Read entire Post ]
December 12, 2003 at 1:30 PM
A grave and gathering threat
One week after Egypt scuttled Israel's proposed UN resolution condemning the murder of Israeli children by terrorists, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom met with Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak in Geneva. Commenting on Wednesday's meeting on Israel Radio, Shalom explained, "The very existence of the meeting... show[s] more than anything that the Egyptians have tried to warm... [ Read entire Post ]
December 5, 2003 at 1:11 PM
Who speaks for Israel?
Two Jews were brutally murdered in Paris in the week that followed the torching of the Jewish day school Merkaz HaTorah in the Paris suburb of Gagny. In an interview with Boston's Jewish Advocate, French Jewish novelist Nidra Poller says that the two murders, of a 23 year-old Jewish DJ and of a recently widowed... [ Read entire Post ]
