"If the US had invaded, say, Bolivia - Osama bin Laden would have completely ignored it. And those who would have claimed invading Bolivia had nothing to do with the War on Terror would have been correct." - Michael J. Totten World War I was simple. It was the last great war between nations, each fighting for their own interests. There was no objective good or evil (although individual actions can be perceived as either) and there were no obvious philosophical alliances (the Entente Cordia...

"Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: "Yids, go back to Palestine," so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: "Yids, get out of Palestine." - Amos Oz "A Tale Of Love And Darkness" Had Israel not been founded, had American and British and European Jews (those that survived) not joined the Jews of the Arab world, would the fate of the Arab Jews have been the same as the fate of Christians in Sudan and Kurds in Syria and Iraq who did ...

I am really not sure whether a Palestinian state can work. These people seem not yet civilised enough to live under their own rule. But it is not for me to decide that. On unrelated news, the Palestinian Authority has decided still not to disarm the terrorist militias, because it would mean civil war. Yes, indeed. If you have terrorist militias in your country and fight them, the result is civil war. But the idea of a state is not to avoid civil war by accepting other authorities, the idea...

This is a small collection of emails I sent to the author of http://www.peterhansen.com/. My original email: -quote- Hi, I have just found your Web site and followed the link to the Iraq Body Count. And I believe you might want to remove the link. Some people have interesting ideas about Saddam's regime and are thus impressed by the number of deaths caused by the invasion. (And on the Iraq Body Count I see that they happily count the victims of terrorism as "killed by the mili...

Lawrence Auster's reader makes a good point: "The way to end the "Koran abuse" is simply to take the Korans away. I don't think there is anything legally that requires we provide Korans to war prisoners and terrorists. Frankly, it seems the harder we try to be polite and respectful to these prisoners the more we are hated. So why bother with this courtesy." And Amritas provides an interesting insight as well: "Shouldn't they have memorized al-Qur'an by now? Real Muslims don't need pa...

I have long wondered whether there is an objective way to measure bias in articles and Web sites about the Palestinian conflict. And I believe I found one. Both sides of the conflict are eager to present their position as based on a just claim to the land of Palestine and thus both sides have an interested in downplaying the role of the others in the region. Before Israel was founded millions of Jews lived among Arabs as "dhimmis". They were underprivileged, differently taxed, and often ha...

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Hi, I read in your "Encyclopedia of the Orient" that Israel practices "apartheid". Since I know Israeli law a bit and am aware of the fact that Israeli Arabs have the same rights and duties and Jewish and Druze citizens, I assume by "apartheid" you are referring to the fact that Arab Israeli do not have to join the army while Jews and Druze have to. You might have to make this more clear in the entry (or give examples of other legal differences between Arabs, Jews, and Druze). You shoul...

Hi, I am writing to inform you that I do not intend to read your news paper any more. I don't know if you are interested in such news or not. Today, Friday 23rd of December, I again read an article which referred to a terrorist who targets Jews as a "militant". Then I noticed that your news paper is one of many that has special words reserved for terrorists who kill Jews. I don't want special treatment for Jews in the press, neither in the positive way nor the negative. A criminal wh...

Friday morning, on my way to work, I read something in the newspaper which struck me as odd. Some Al-Qaeda operative in Britain announced that Ireland was now a target of Al-Qaeda. Now, I never thought that anybody was excused from being a target of Al-Qaeda (in fact recent events make me believe that being a Muslim makes one more rather than less of a target); but the odd part of the announcement was their explanation. They said that Irish support for US forces made Ireland an enemy...

Boy, was I angry that night...

Israeli air strikes kill Palestinian children. And Palestinian terror attacks kill Jewish children. But even Palestinian propaganda cannot ignore the fact that while Palestinian terrorists specifically target Jewish children, Israel's army kills Paestinian civilians while targeting Palestinian terrorists. It is an unfortunate side effect that civilians die in a war. And it is, for the Palestinian cause, a fortune side effect that sometimes a terror attack launched against civilians make...

"Advisers appointed by Tony Blairafter the London bombings are proposing to scrap the Jewish HolocaustMemorial Day because it is regarded as offensive to Muslims. They want to replace it with a GenocideDay that would recognise the mass murder of Muslims in Palestine,Chechnya and Bosnia as well as people of other faiths." -- TimesOnline World War II has special meaning to Britain, because in World War II Britain fought for her existence as a nation as well as for the existence of Eu...

A Palestinian stands next to a synagogue...

Translations of Iraqis commenting on the Arabic BBC forum about the war between Hamas and Israel in July 2006:     "Hamas with their radical false-heroic speech opened the door for extremists in Gaza and Damascus to open a battlefront that will harm the innocent Palestinian citizen and destroy the peace process. Hamas has long been against the peace process and has long worked on halting it" Ahmed Talib al-Taii: Baghdad/Iraq. "There are trends that still live by the pas...