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The surprise of it all
Originally published 10 Feb 2010 in The Jerusalem Post

The world’s astonishment at Israel’s response to the Haiti disaster is insulting. What we saw there was Israel’s true face.

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Movies in Nablus, dramas in Bethlehem
Originally published 22 Sep 2009 in The Jerusalem Post

Lasting peace must grow from the bottom up, from an “economic peace process” that proves what advantages peace has to offer on a daily basis. It cannot come from signing peace agreements with radical and corrupt entities propped up by corrupting Western handouts.

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Mideast peace can start with economic growth
Originally published 12 Mar 2009 in The Wall Street Journal

Billions of dollars in foreign aid to the Palestinians has resulted in war not peace. There’s a better way.

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Shooting from the ivory tower
Originally published 22 Feb 2005 in The Jerusalem Post

	Utopia: Woodcut from the 1518 edition of Thomas More's book

At a recent debate in London, radical Israeli leftists and their fellow intellectuals debated whether “Zionism today is the real enemy of the Jews.”

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