online.wsj.com - 28 days ago
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YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI Jerusalem The postcard from the Home Front Command that recently arrived in my mailbox looks like an ad from the Ministry of Tourism. A map of Israel is divided by color into six regions, each symbolized by an upbeat drawing: a smiling camel in the Negev desert, a skier in the ...
weeklystandard.com - 10/27/2009
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weeklystandard.com —
I made my way over to the J
Street conference today to see for myself just how...
"pro-peace, pro-Israel" the organization really is, and there can be no doubt, J Street is pro-peace. But while the leadership of J Street may be pro-Israel, the ...
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The Space Between Pro-Israel and Anti-Israel
volokh.com - 10/26/2009
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volokh.com —
JStreet , which bills itself as a “pro-peace,
pro-Israel” lobby, and aims to be a progressive counterpart...
to AIPAC, is having its convention starting tomorrow. Unlike some in the pro-Israel community, I’m not hostile to JStreet. First, I know one of ...
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Some Friendly (Really) Advice to JStreet
volokh.com - 30 days ago
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volokh.com —
Matthew Yglesias : I was debating with Jon
Chait at a J Street panel this morning on...
the subject of “what does it mean to be pro-Israel?” As expected, we disagreed on a number of points, most of which I was right on and he was wrong on. But one ...
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Yglesias at JStreet
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Ein breira (there is no choice)
Israel Matzav —
... In Friday's Wall Street Journal, Yossi Klein HaLevi talks about what's on most Israelis' minds these days: The possibility of an Iranian nuclear bomb . Opinion here has been divided about the ability of an Israeli strike to significantly delay Iran's nuclear program. But Israelis have dealt with their doubts by resurrecting a phrase from the country's early years: Ein breira, there's no choice. Besides, as one leading Israeli security official who has been involved in the Iranian issue for many years put it to me, "Technical problems have technical solutions." Israelis tend ...
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Yourish.com —
... Postcards from the IDF: Yossi Klein Halevi on Israeli citizens’ receipt of a postcard that details how much time they have to get to the nearest bomb shelter in the event of a missile attack. A sobering read. ...
What Will Israel Do?
Blogs For Victory —
... Excellent article in the WSJ about Israel’s increasing acceptance of the need for some sort of decisive action against Iran. Reading it, I got this question in my head: would Israel use nuclear weapons in a first strike? ...
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War Resisters Reach Out in Dialogue —
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by Dialogues Against Militarism The Dialogues Against Militarism (DAM) delegation has arrived in
Be'er Sheva, Israel, a small city that sits in the middle of the Negev
Desert. Our travels from San Francisco, California lasted two days, including a
twenty hour flight and a long ride through the ...
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Israel Matzav
As I noted this past week, J Street has decided that it is becoming the American Friends of Kadima. At the Volokh Conspiracy, David Bernstein had this reaction (Hat Tip: Instapundit). So, the question is: If J Street is not a left-wing organization, is pro-Israel, is against a one-state ...
Martians Can’t Sue —
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Eugene Volokh brings to our attention, rather belatedly, the case of Joly v. Pelletier , in which Rene Joly brought a suit some ten years ago alleging that Pelletier and others had conspired to suppress evidence that he was a Martian. The judge dismissed the case on two grounds:
1. ...
Friendly Advice to J Street —
Solomonia
This is a very well done post by David Bernstein at Volokh: Some Friendly (Really) Advice to JStreet
... During the Cold War, there were anti-Communists, and what one wag deemed "anti-anti-Communists." The anti-anti-Communists were people who purported to be against Communism, but they spent ...
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