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Most of the world thinks settlements are illegal. US President Barak Obama calls them "illegitimate." Defense Minister Ehud Barak casts his crusade against settlers as mere "law enforcement." Appeasing such sentiments, the government approved the 10-month freeze on Jewish building in Judea and Samaria. But while the world calls the settlements illegal, the ban on settlement construction may

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[As published in The Jerusalem Post, Dec. 22, 2009]THE PLIGHT OF YOUNG GILAD SHALIT, and the struggle of his family and parents who have worked so hard for his freedom, have captivated the nation. Never before has the absence of one person been such a personal matter for all of Israel. Yet, even for Gilad, who is still alive, there are lines that cannot be crossed and deals that cannot be made.

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The following letter, of Nov. 25, 2009, was in response to the Jerusalem Post's editorial Principle & Pragmatism of Nov. 24, 2009.Sir, - Your reference to former prime minister David Ben-Gurion's "uncompromising" pragmatism ("Principle & pragmatism," November 24) is somewhat puzzling, as pragmatism in politics is the art of compromising on values and principles.Ben-Gurion did believe in

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By DANIEL TAUBER & DR. AVRAHAM GOLDSTEINPublished in The Jewish Press on April 10, 2009.An identifying mark of the Jew has been, and for many still is, his beard. The foundation for this is the commandment in the Torah: “You shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall you mar the corners of your beard” (Leviticus 19:27).The Second Book of Samuel provides an early example of the

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[This article was originally published in The American Thinker.]On the eve of former U.S. Senator George Mitchell's mission to Israel as U.S. envoy in the aftermath of Israel's recent anti-terror Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, a Palestinian Authority military court in Hebron sentenced a former member of the Palestinian Authority presidential security service, Force 17, to death for the crime of

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Originally published in the Jewish Press, Dec. 10, 2008. NATAN SHARANSKY is a modern-day Jewish hero. There is no doubt about that. Every Jew should know of his imprisonment by the Soviet Union for his human rights and Zionist activism. My father, for instance, gave me a copy of Sharansky’s autobiography, Fear No Evil, to use for my sixth grade book report.Not without its faults, Sharansky’s

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Published in The American Thinker.GENOCIDE IN DARFUR (300-400,000 killed and 2.5 million displaced), aids in Africa (just under 24 million infected with HIV and 1.6 million dead), the Rwandan Genocide (800,000-1,000,000 killed), Communist China (1.3 billion living under a totalitarian regime), the rise of Islamic terrorism, the plight of women in Islamic and Arabic countries, and the Iranian

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IS THE STATE of Israel a banana republic? The Israeli Left seems to think so.After Barack Obama’s victory in the U.S. Presidential Elections, the Israeli political parties Kadima and Labor were quick to argue that Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu “was too Republican” to work with Obama and therefore should not be elected prime minister.Kadima leader and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said

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THERE WAS A TIME when people prayed for President Bush. But watching Oliver Stone's W., you would never know it.Perhaps expecting anything else was naïve. I ultimately saw the movie only after glancing at a review in The National Review by Tom Hoopes, entitled, “Did W. Backfire?” Hoopes wrote that “despite the worst intentions of its makers,” the film “succeeds in making George W. Bush more

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IS THERE ANY PROMISE an Israeli politician will not break? It may be common knowledge that politicians lie, but in the last few years, this country’s politicians have reached new lows, breaking their promises on matters both large and small. Their word has become as solid as an appointment with the repairman the kind that does not inform you that he is not coming until he has already missed the

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HIS RESIGNATION already signed and submitted, disgraced Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is still selling the Land of Israel, piece by piece, to the lowest bidder.The latest of Olmert’s giveaways is a $3.2 million piece of Jerusalem real estate known as Sergei's Court, which currently houses several Israeli government agencies including the Ministry of Agriculture, the Israel Nature and

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BY EXECUTING the so-called prisoner swap with Hizbullah on Wednesday this week, the Israeli government concluded its shameful role in shirking its responsibility for the two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hizbullah almost two years ago. Far from being a fulfillment of the government's obligations, the deal is both a chillul Hashem (desecration of God's name) and the completion of Hizbullah's

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By RAV AVRAHAM YITZCHAK HACOHEN KOOK, 19201. The Land of IsraelThe Land of Israel is not a peripheral matter, an external acquisition of the nation; it is not merely a mean toward the goal of the general coagulation of the nation, nor of strengthening its material existence, nor even its spiritual.The Land of Israel is an independent unit, bound with a living attachment with the nation, bound

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THE IRON WALLBy ZE'EV JABOTINSKY (November 4, 1923)IT IS AN EXCELLENT RULE to begin an article with the most important point, but this time, I find it necessary to begin with an introduction, and, moreover, with a personal introduction.I am reputed to be an enemy of the Arabs, who wants to have them ejected from Palestine, and so forth. It is not true.Emotionally, my attitude to the Arabs is the

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NEW YORK CITY'S fashionable Fifth Avenue was transformed in to a sea of blue and white as crystal clear blue skies, a searing sun, Israeli music and thousands of marchers and spectators were the order of the day on Sunday, June 1st at the 44th annual Salute to Israel parade.As Israel celebrated the 60th anniversary since its creation as a modern state, Jews and non-Jews spanning the globe made

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By LAURENCE TAUBERShmuel Katz, former Minister of Information under Menachem Begin, last remaining member of Israel’s first Knesset, Irgun commander, and one of the great leaders of the Zionist Revisionist movement, died on May 9 at the age of 93.Katz dedicated his entire life in defense of the Jewish People and the State of Israel.He was born in South Africa in 1914, joined the Betar youth

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As Jews around the world celebrated the 60th anniversary of the birth of Israel as a modern state, the annual Yom Ha'Atzmaout festivities in New York took place amidst a backdrop of controversy and protest outside of Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday evening May 7th.At a gala, star studded musical event sponsored by the UJA-Federation, thousands filed into the landmark edifice to hear a historic

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ACADEMICS DECRIED American academia's moral bankruptcy while recalling the visit of Nazis Germany's ambassador to Columbia University and the lack of action taken to save murdered European academics, in a paneled discussion last Sunday.The event, "Columbia and the Nazis: New Research, New Concerns," was held at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan and was sponsored by the Organization of

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ON MARCH 5, 1770, a British regiment shot and killed five American colonialists, in what became known as the Boston Massacre. The massacre became a rallying cry to revolution against the British, even though what had taken place was not really a massacre, but acts of self-defense against a violent mob that taunted: "Fire and be damned!"Although ultimately proved false, the very idea of a massacre

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WITHDRAWALS, EXPULSIONS, and peace agreements are the golden calves of our generation. They hold a mystical sway over the people, regardless of their context, purpose, or arrangement.Just as we wonder what could possibly have motivated our ancestors to construct and worship a metal cow right after the miracle of the Exodus, our children will wonder what drove us to so shamefully and willingly

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IN 2003, ALABAMA Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore attained brief fame when he placed and refused to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments in the State Supreme Court building. Moore’s actions and his subsequent removal from office by a unanimous decision of Alabama’s Court of the Judiciary were just another part of the American debate about the role of religion in the United States.The Alabama

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In Divrei Yaakov, the recently published collection of divrei Torah on Sefer Shemot by Rabbi Jack Tauber, zt”l [my grandfather], there is a discussion of the role played by the Egyptian people in enslaving the Jews. According to Rabbi Tauber, and as other commentators have also noted, Pharaoh did not force the Egyptians but convinced them, saying, “Behold the Children of Israel are greater than

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THE TORAH, the book of law, takes great effort to establish the Jewish legal claim to the property of Eretz Yisrael. Rashi explains that the Torah began with creation because it anticipated the argument that would be made by the nations of the world – “listim ahtem,” you are robbers who stole the Land from the native inhabitants.Creation establishes God’s ownership over the universe and,

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by FERN SIDMAN(New York) - TODAY, A MOST important conference entitled, "Hijacking Human Rights: The Demonization of Israel by the United Nations" was held at the UN Millennium Plaza Hotel in midtown Manhattan. The nine hour conference, sponsored by Touro Law School, the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank and the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists featured a veritable

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PRESIDENT BUSH has caught the fever. Like so many of his predecessors, he believes that he will make peace in the Middle East. It doesn't matter that the formula he is applying, pressuring Israel to make one-sided concessions, has failed so many times before. As the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported, the U.S. has made it clear that it believes it can impose the creation of a Palestinian State.

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