Editorial

By Lawrence Davidson

Back in October of 2005 the Western media, starting with the New York Times, mistranslated a speech by Ahmadinejad. The Iranian President had called for regime change in Israel, a practice American Presidents indulge in repeatedly in terms of countries like Cuba, Sudan, and Iran itself. In this case, Ahmadinejad’s statement that “the occupying regime over Jerusalem” will one day “vanish from the pages of time” somehow became a desire that Israel should be “wiped off the the map.”

Read more: Israeli Rabbi Outdoes Ahmadinejad

By Ben Tanosborn

New York is not Córdoba a millennium later
 
By now it should be crystal clear to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder of the Córdoba Initiative, that New York is not Córdoba one thousand years later, nor is the American nation an enlarged geopolitical version of the then caliphate of al-Andalus.  Sadly, for anyone to think otherwise is a romantic notion, one that will not alter an iota America’s etched-in-stone Middle Eastern foreign policy, nor ameliorate the threat of terrorism which has been cancerously growing, principally in response to that policy.

Read more: The Córdoba Initiative

By Lawrence Davidson

Between the 23rd and the 25th of August, Yale University held a conference on Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity." It was sponsored by the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism. Therefore, this was a university event and not one brought in from the outside to use Yale facilities. On the surface there is nothing wrong with this. Anti-Semitism is an age old form of racism and it calls for ongoing academic study. The problem is that this particular conference approached the subject from the ideologically driven position of radical Zionism.

Read more: Yale University and the Problem of Anti-Semitism

By Lawrence Davidson

John McCain Says We Won
 
Back in July 2010 Senator John McCain told Geoff Millard, board chairman of Iraq Veterans Against the War, that his organization was irrelevant. "You’re too late. We already won that one" was McCain’s comment. Senator McCain has never defined exactly what he meant by winning. Nor, for that matter, have the various media outlets that follow his line.

Read more: Victory in Iraq??

By Lawrence Davidson

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has announced that direct "negotiations" between Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas will begin on September 2, 2010. It is reported that Abbas agreed to these talks only after heavy pressure from both the United States and the European Union. As part of the pressure President Obama is said to have told Abbas in June that the U.S. could do more to help the Palestinians if direct negotiations were ongoing.

Read more: Netanyahu & Abbas: What are the Possibilities?