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From friday's papers in israel: 1). Kids on a hanukkah visit to an artillery battery were treated to a cool demonstration: the battery happened to have orders to bomb Gaza with live artillery shells, so the kids stayed around to watch the battery's "tolarim" (mobile artillery pieces) fire live...

I'm starting a new thread with this because it's really a different topic. Serious allegations are made against an entire nation, and yet in my judgement they seem to be without foundation, or a very week foundation at best. http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46919...

There was an interesting article in today’s NYTimes about an archeological dig in East Jerusalem. It was interesting from an archeological standpoint because it was exploring the foundations of a presumed public building at a place where none had heretofore been found, and dated to the...

July 15, 2005 What May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from the Gaza Strip A Warning from Israel By URI DAVIS, ILAN PAPPE, and TAMAR YARON We feel that it is urgent and necessary to raise the alarm regarding what may come during and after evacuation of Jewish settlers from the...

Telling figures about the Israeli killers: 1 British civilian killed = 1 Israeli soldier jailed . http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1516194,00.html 1,722 Palestinian civilians killed = no Israeli soldiers jailed . http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1516268,00.html...

No one cared about the holocaust. JERUSALEM - In a speech marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday that the world “didn’t lift a finger” to stop the Holocaust. In unusually harsh remarks to parliament, Sharon noted...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/567677.html Yes, Arabs in Israel is a major problem. You can't have that.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/04/14/does_israel_want_arab_democracy/ It seems there is at least one other writer who has embraced Sharansky.

I don't know how to say this without sounding flippant, but I really am interested in hearing what people believe are the alternatives to assassinations. Perhaps I'm being naive, but my position is that, absent evidence to the contrary, it is reasonable to assume that Israeli has good reasons...

Division in Israel over withdrawal from settlements It has been predicted here that the inevitable time when Israel has to decide just what it will call it's borders will create a big internal division. Capel has said it will create a civil war. this...

It has been predicted here that the inevitable time when Israel has to decide just what it will call it's borders will create a big internal division. Capel has said it will create a civil war. this article pretty well sums up the division of the secular vs the extremist religious groups...

Time and time again Israel is given as the reason for middle east problems. From pronouncements of why Bin Laden and co. is "really" angry with the West, to absurd pronouncements that peace in (fill in the blank) can’t be achieved until the Israeli/Arab conflict is resolved first. It never...

http://www.strategypage.com//fyeo/howtomakewar/default.asp?target=HTCHEM.HTM

Sharon has stated he intends to pull all Israelis out of the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank. He is taking a lot of heat from within his own coaltion for it. Protests by settlers are planned. To succeed, Sharon is going to need a lot of help/support from his political opposition in the...

I've been thinking about this, and I think those who believe it is due to the resurgent of the old antisemitism of pre-WWII (which Hitler gave a bad name to temporarily) is part, but not the most important part, of the answer. Europe both created and was ravaged by that most horrible of...

My jewish friend says the UN is being anti-semitic, which I doubt extremely much, so I'm wondering what are the real reasons. Thanks!

...is that a). it exists, and b). is not Arab. Proof? Consider the Berbers in Algeria, the black Sudanese in Sudan, the Kurds in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, the Christian and Druze in Lebanon, the Copts in Egypt, etc., etc., etc. In all these cases--in fact, in the case of *every* *single*...

Noam Chomsky on Israel and Palestine Most people in these forums probably know who Noam Chomsky is... Radical Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. Anwho, here is a short article done my The Guardian on hist current viewpoint on how to achieve peace within the conflict between Israel...

I keep hearing this argument. From who? From people who want to claim israel is weak? No. From people who want to claim israel is pathetic? No. From people who want to claim israel is MORALLY inferior: a "parasite", an "annoyance", and so on. Fine, without the US there will be no israel. And...