THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA

An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis

Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor



Conservative & Free-Market Analysis of Government, Politics & Public Policy, Covering Political, Legal, Constitutional, Economic, Cultural, Military, International, Strategic, & Geopolitical Issues
PUBLIC ISSUES & POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES:
ISRAEL, ARABS, & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT
ISRAELI POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, & PUBLIC POLICY -- PUBLIC ISSUES & CONTROVERSIES
THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN WAR & PEACE -- ISRAEL'S ROLE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
ISRAELI MILITARY DEFENSE & NATIONAL SECURITY -- THE ISRAELI ECONOMY

THE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF & WORKS AGENCY:  ITS IMPACT ON THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE PROBLEM -- AN AGENCY WHICH PERPETUATES THE REFUGEE PROBLEM, RATHER THAN CONTRIBUTING TO ITS RESOLUTION -- UNRWA AS A KEY IRRITANT TO ARAB-ISRAELI RELATIONS -- WHAT THE U.S.A. SHOULD DO ABOUT THIS SITUATION
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Volume XIV, Issue # 148, July 10, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

LESSENING UNRWA'S DAMAGE

By Dr. Daniel Pipes & Dr. Stephen J. Rosen



THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT:  ERASING ANCIENT JEWISH HISTORY & MANUFACTURING EARLY PALESTINIAN HISTORY -- THE PALESTINIAN ARAB TACTIC OF DENYING A JEWISH PAST TO SITES & HOLY PLACES IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL -- THE BATTLE OF SILWAN AS A MICROCOSM OF A LARGER FIGHT, ONE IN WHICH ONE SIDE, THE PALESTINIAN, SEEKS TO ERASE THE EXISTENCE OF THE OTHER, NOT MERELY THROUGH TRADITIONAL ARMED CONFLICT, BUT ALSO BY REWRITING HISTORY -- THE WIDER FIGHT BETWEEN PALESTINIAN ARABS & ISRAELI JEWS IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE AS LONG AS LONG AS ARABS & MUSLIMS IN GENERAL REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE THAT ANOTHER PEOPLE, THE HEBREWS, HAVE A CLAIM TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
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Volume XIV, Issue # 147, July 9, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE BATTLE OVER SILWAN: FABRICATING PALESTINIAN HISTORY

By Shaul Bartal



THE STRATEGY & TACTICS OF ASSERTING PALESTINIAN NATIONHOOD & STATEHOOD:  PALESTINIAN DENIAL OF ANY HISTORIC JEWISH CONNECTION TO CANAAN, OR THE LAND OF ISRAEL -- PALESTINIANS STEALING THE JEWISH ENEMY'S HERITAGE, HISTORY & VALUES, & DENYING THE JEWS' LEGITIMACY AS A PEOPLE & A STATE -- A CENTRAL GOAL OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY: REWRITING THE HISTORY OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL BY ERASING JEWISH HISTORY & REPLACING IT WITH A FABRICATED PALESTINIAN HISTORY
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Volume XIV, Issue # 139, June 27, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

FOUNDING NATIONAL MYTHS: FABRICATING PALESTINIAN HISTORY

By Dr. David Bukay



THE PALESTINIAN ARABS & THEIR UNWAVERING REJECTION OF ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST:  WHAT HISTORICAL RIGHT TO THE LAND OF CANAAN IS CLAIMED BY THE ISRAELI JEWS? WHAT HISTORIC RIGHT TO CANAAN IS CLAIMED BY THE PALESTINIAN ARABS? THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & PALESTINIAN RHETORICAL STRATEGIES -- THE SPECIAL TREATMENT THAT THE WESTERN MEDIA GIVES TO PALESTINIAN & PRO-PALESTINIAN PROPAGANDA
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Volume XIV, Issue # 124, June 14, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE RHETORIC OF NONSENSE: FABRICATING PALESTINIAN HISTORY

By Dr. Alexander H. Joffe



JIHADISM & THE UNALTERABLE GOAL OF RADICAL ISLAM:  TOTALITARIAN WORLD DOMINATION & THE IMPOSITION OF SHARIA LAW ON ALL HUMAN BEINGS EVERYWHERE ON PLANET EARTH -- JIHAD AS THE HEART & SOUL OF ISLAM, IT'S GUIDING LIGHT, IT'S FUEL & IT'S WINGS -- WHY SHOULD IT BE DIFFICULT TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE GOAL OF THE ARAB SPRING WAS THE IMPOSITION OF SHARIA LAW & THAT IS WHY, IN ONE MUSLIM COUNTRY AFTER ANOTHER, THE SHARIA-IMPOSING PARTY WON THE BIGGEST SHARE OF THE VOTE & WILL LEAD THE GOVERNMENT?
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Volume XIV, Issue # 81, April 16, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SWING LOW SWEET SHARIA

By Nidra Poller



ARABIC-SPEAKING CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  CAN ARABS, WHO MAKE UP ONE-FIFTH OF ISRAEL'S POPULATION, BE LOYAL CITIZENS OF THE JEWISH STATE? ARABS' APPRECIATION OF ISRAEL'S ECONOMIC SUCCESS, STANDARD OF HEALTH CARE, RULE OF LAW & FUNCTIONING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, BUT RESENTMENT OF JUDAISM AS THE COUNTRY'S PRIVILEGED RELIGION, THE LAW OF RETURN THAT PERMITS ONLY JEWS TO IMMIGRATE AT WILL, HEBREW AS THE PRIMARY LANGUAGE OF STATE, THE STAR OF DAVID IN THE FLAG, & MENTION OF "JEWISH SOUL" IN THE ANTHEM -- THE TWO PARADOXES IN WHICH ISRAELI ARABS LIVE -- WHAT CAN BE DONE -- THE GREATEST IMPEDIMENT TO A LONGTERM SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF ISRAELI NATIONAL UNITY & IDENTITY
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Volume XIV, Issue # 52, March 22, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL'S ARABS: LIVING A PARADOX

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



CONFLICT RESOLUTION, THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  UCLA'S IDEA OF PUBLIC LECTURES, ACADEMIC COURSES, & EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOSTERING CIVIL DISCOURSE & THE PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTS -- UCLA PLANNING A BIASED & UNBALANCED PRESENTATION DEALING WITH THE POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL & PALESTINE -- ANTI-ISRAELI & PRO-ARAB PROFESSORS REPRESENTING BOTH SIDES IN THE DEBATE OVER THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ISRAELI JEWS & THE PALESTINIAN ARABS
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Volume XIV, Issue # 37, February 28, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES IN THE NEWS:
UCLA "Conflict Resolution" Program Features
Anti-Israel Professors on Both Sides

By Cinnamon Stillwell



ANTI-ISRAELI PROPAGANDA DISSEMINATED BY PROFESSOR RICHARD FALK:  FALK'S SOLUTION FOR HOW TO ACHIEVE "PEACE" IN THE MIDDLE EAST: MOVE FROM THE DOMAIN OF REASON & ANALYSIS TO THE DOMAIN OF IMAGINATION. CONCEIVE OF A REGION-WIDE SOLUTION, COUPLED WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NUCLEAR FREE ZONE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST, WHICH IRAN WOULD FULLY SUPPORT. DESPITE THE PALESTINIANS' EXTRAORDINARY CONCESSIONS, ACCORDING TO FALK, WHAT ISRAEL IS WILLING TO OFFER IS MUCH LESS THAN WHAT THE ISRAELIS COULD AFFORD TO ACCEPT, & THE CYCLE OF TENSION KEEPS THE REGION IN PRE-WAR CONDITIONS THAT ROB ATTENTION FROM THE ORDEAL OF SUFFERING IMPOSED ON PALESTINIANS.
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Volume XIV, Issue # 35, February 27, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

RICHARD FALK'S IMAGINATION TRUMPS TRUTH IN LECTURE ON ISRAEL:
FALK'S IMAGINATION GONE WILD

By April Kaza



GREECE, GREEK ISLANDS, CYPRUS, ISRAEL, TURKEY, & MIDDLE EASTERN GEOPOLITICS:  KASTELORIZO, EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONES, & MASSIVE OFF-SHORE GAS & OIL DISCOVERIES -- THE EMERGING ALLIANCE OF GREECE, CYPRUS, & ISRAEL -- MAKING IT POSSIBLE TO TRANSPORT CYPRIOT & ISRAELI NATURAL GAS OR ELECTRICITY TO WESTERN EUROPE WITHOUT TURKEY'S PERMISSION -- HEIGHTENED TURKISH AGGRESSIVENESS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
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Volume XIV, Issue # 27, February 7, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

KASTELORIZO: MEDITERRANEAN FLASHPOINT?

By
Dr. Daniel Pipes



ISRAELI MILITARY ACTION AGAINST THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME & ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM:  THOUGHTS ON THE LIKELYHOOD THAT ISRAEL WILL STRIKE IRAN IN APRIL, MAY, or JUNE, 2012
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Volume XIV, Issue # 24, February 4, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PANETTA PREDICTS AN ISRAELI STRIKE ON IRAN

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



UNCONTROLLED IMMIGRATION OF PALESTINIAN ARABS FROM GAZA & WEST BANK INTO ISRAEL:  THE THREAT THAT THIS POSES TO THE SECURITY & SURVIVAL OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- THE RIGHT OF ISRAEL TO DEFEND ITSELF & PRESERVE ITS SOVEREIGNTY -- THE RIGHT OF ISRAEL TO MAINTAIN & PROTECT ITS JEWISH CHARACTER -- ISRAELI IMMIGRATION & CITIZENSHIP POLICY -- THE RELEVANT ISRAELI SUPREME COURT DECISION & ITS LONGTERM IMPLICATIONS -- CLOSING THE BACK DOOR ON THE ARAB "RIGHT OF RETURN" & SECURING ISRAEL'S ZIONIST IDENTITY & FUTURE
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Volume XIV, Issue # 10, January 17, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ENDING THE PALESTINIAN "RIGHT OF RETURN"

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION, RATHER THAN TRUE EDUCATION & SCHOLARSHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES: RABIDLY ANTI-ISRAELI, PRO-ARAB, &, AT TIMES, ANTI-SEMITIC POLITICAL PROPAGANDA DISSEMINATED BY A UCLA FACULTY MEMBER -- PROFESSOR SONDRA HALE'S RECENT RETIREMENT PROVIDES UCLA WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE AMENDS FOR THE YEARS OF AGITPROP & POLITICAL PROSTITUTION, REPLACING HALE WITH SOMEONE WHO WILL PURSUE DISINTERESTED, RIGOROUS SCHOLARSHIP.
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Volume XIV, Issue # 6, January 10, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

FAREWELL TO UCLA'S SONDRA HALE

By Cinnamon Stillwell



THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN:  THE WORLD'S MOST RECENTLY-ESTABLISHED INDEPENTDENT, SOVEREIGN NATION-STATE -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF SOUTH SUDAN & ITS PEOPLE -- THE LINK BETWEEN SOUTH SUDAN & THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- THE LINK BETWEEN SOUTH SUDAN & THE U.S.A. -- THE PROBABLE IMPACT OF A SUCCESSFUL SOUTH SUDAN ON POWER POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN REGION
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Volume XIV, Issue # 2, January 3, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SOUTH SUDAN -- ISRAEL'S NEW ALLY

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



JUAN COLE'S SKEWED VIEW OF THE MIDDLE EAST:  IN THE MIDDLE EAST, ACCORDING TO COLE, IRAN JUSTIFIABLY PROTECTS ITS OWN INTERESTS; THE U.S.A. IS A MALIGNANT & AGGRESSIVE FORCE; ISRAEL IS AMERICA'S TRIGGER-HAPPY SATELLITE; TURKEY'S RULING PARTY (AKP) IS HEADED BY A PRACTICAL & DEMOCRATIC PRIME MINISTER, RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, WHO PROMOTES "MIDDLE EASTERN MULTICULTURALISM"; AN ISLAMIST PARTY IN TUNISIA, CALLED ENNAHDA, DOES THE SAME. COLE DISPLAYS A GENERAL TOLERANCE FOR POLITICALLY HOSTILE SENTIMENTS TOWARD AMERICA & ISRAEL IN THE ARAB WORLD. COLE ARGUES THAT THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES ARE BULLIES & MANIPULATORS.
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Volume XIII, Issue # 272, November 11, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

JUAN COLE -- CRITIC OF DEMOCRACY, APOLOGIST FOR TYRANNY:
JUAN COLE'S TOTALITARIAN ODYSSEY

By Alan Jacobs



ANTI-ZIONISM & ANTI-SEMITISM AMONG ARABS:  CAN AN ARAB BE PRO-ISRAEL? THE ANSWER GIVEN BY LEFT-LEANING ACADEMICS -- HOW THE ANTI-ZIONIST & ANTI-SEMITIC BIAS OF U.S. & U.K. ACADEMIA HAS INFECTED MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, ISRAEL STUDIES, JEWISH STUDIES, & HOLOCAUST STUDIES -- THE BASTIONS OF INDEPENDENT & OBJECTIVE SCOLARSHIP RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING
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Volume XIII, Issue # 266, November 10, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

GILBERT ACHCAR'S ANTI-ZIONISM OF FOOLS

By Cinnamon Stillwell & Rima Greene



CYPRUS, ISRAEL, & INTERNATIONAL SECURITY:   CYPRUS BEING THREATENED BY AN OVER-CONFIDENT & POSSIBLY MESSIANIC TURKISH POLITICAL REGIME THAT INCREASINGLY MANIFESTS ROGUE ATTRIBUTES -- PROPOSALS FOR A FULL-ON ALLIANCE BETWEEN CYPRUS & ISRAEL -- THE ADVANTAGES THAT CYPRUS WOULD DERIVE FROM SUCH AN ISRAELI-CYPRIOT ALLIANCE -- WHAT ISRAEL WOULD GAIN FROM THE ALLIANCE -- THE IMPORTANT ROLES THAT THE U.S.A., NATO, GREECE, & THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION NEED TO PLAY IN ENCOURAGING CYPRIOT-ISRAELI RELATIONS & THEREBY DIMINISHING THE LIKELIHOOD OF AKP-LED TURKISH AGGRESSION
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Volume XIII, Issue # 245, October 11, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CYPRUS ON THE WORLD STAGE

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE CONTINUING CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ISRAELI JEWS & THEIR ISLAMIC NEIGHBORS IN THE MIDDLE EAST:   SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 1948, THE STATE OF ISRAEL HAS BEEN THROUGH FIVE WARS WITH ITS MIDDLE EASTERN NEIGHBORS, ENDLESS PALESTINIAN TERRORISM & ROCKETING, & OPEN THREATS OF NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION BY IRAN. THE PALESTINIANS HAVING REFUSED EVERY OFFER OF PEACE & STATEHOOD MADE TO THEM, THE CURRENT DEMAND FOR A PALESTINIAN STATE IS INTENDED TO HEAT UP & KEEP ALIVE THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, AS WELL AS THE ISLAMIST GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL & THE WEST.
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Volume XIII, Issue # 234, September 17, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

FIVE WARS, 63 YEARS OF TERRORISM, & ISRAEL SURVIVES

By Alan Caruba



PALESTINIAN LEADERS' REJECTION OF A TWO-STATE SOLUTION TO THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:   PALESTINIANS SEEKING UNITED NATIONS RECOGNITION OF PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD & APPLYING PRESSURE FOR A COMPLETE ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, WITHOUT A PEACE AGREEMENT, OR, INDEED, ANY QUID PRO QUO -- CONTINUING PALESTINIAN ARAB REJECTION OF A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT & LAYING THE DIPLOMATIC GROUNDWORK FOR RENEWAL OF THE ASSAULT ON THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- WHAT PALESTINIAN LEADERS ENVISAGE:  DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH STATE, ARAB OCCUPATION OF THE TOTALITY OF ISRAEL & PALESTINE, & THE PERMANENT DEPARTURE OF VIRTUALLY ALL JEWS FROM THE AREA -- ARAB-ADMINISTERED ETHNIC CLEANSING OF JEWS
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Volume XIII, Issue # 232, September 15, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHERE IS THE PALESTINIAN BEN-GURION?

By Dr. Efraim Karsh



THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY:  TENOR OF A FAILED ADMINISTRATION -- FURTIVE GAMBITS THAT PAINFULLY EXPOSE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S AMATEURISH, DECEITFUL, & BANKRUPT POLICIES TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISLAMIC WORLD -- CLEAR SIGNS OF AN INEFFECTIVE & UNRELIABLE ADMINISTRATION IN PANIC OVER ITS LOWEST-EVER POLL RATINGS & TRYING TO REVIVE ITS POLITICAL FORTUNES BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY, EVEN IF ITS DISHONESTY MIGHT EXPOSE IT TO RIDICULE -- THE U.S.A. CURRENTLY UNDER A SET OF VERY POOR NATIONAL LEADERS WHO ARE MAKING A SHAMBLES OF AMERICA'S FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN NEAR EAST ASIA & ELSEWHERE
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Volume XIII, Issue # 203, August 16, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHITE HOUSE MISCHIEF

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD & INTERNATIONAL LAW:  "SOVEREIGNTY" & "SOVEREIGN STATE" AS DEFINED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW -- THE 1933 MONTEVIDEO CONVENTION & THE PREVAILING LEGAL STANDARD -- THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS THAT AN ENTITY MUST MEET IN ORDER TO FUNCTION AS A SOVEREIGN STATE -- THE "PALESTINIAN" ENTITY THAT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY WILL HAVE IN MIND, IF IT VOTES FOR COLLECTIVE RECOGNITION OF THIS ENTITY AS THE SOVEREIGN "STATE OF PALESTINE" -- DOES THIS "PALESTINIAN" ENTITY MEET THE LEGAL CRITERIA OF SOVEREIGN STATEHOOD?  THE PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES OF A UN ATTEMPT TO ADOPT SUCH AN ARRANGEMENT:  CIVIL & INTERNATIONAL WARS
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Volume XIII, Issue # 193, August 5, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PALESTINIANS' IMAGINARY STATE

By Dr. Steven J. Rosen



A NEW & DANGEROUS STAGE IN THE CENTURY-LONG FEUD BETWEEN JEWS & ARABS IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  WILL PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS DELIVER ON HIS THREAT TO UNILATERALLY DECLARE AN INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE & SEEK RECOGNITION OF IT THROUGH THE UNITED NATIONS?  WILL THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY FALL FOR THIS PALESTINIAN PLOY, REWARDING DECADES OF ARAB DUPLICITY, INTRANSIGENCE & VIOLENCE, & BETRAYING THE UN'S OWN LONGSTANDING FORMULA OF "LAND FOR PEACE" AS THE SOLUTION TO THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT?
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Volume XIII, Issue # 192, August 5, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

LAND FOR WAR

By Dr. Efraim Karsh & Asaf Romirowsky



ISRAEL:  POLITICS, THE ECONOMY, & GROWING POPULAR DISCONTENT -- WIDESPREAD PROTESTS THIS SUMMER OVER RAPIDLY RISING FOOD PRICES -- PROTESTS THAT COULD ESCALATE INTO A POPULAR UPRISING AGAINST A DYSFUNCTIONAL POLITICAL SYSTEM & AN UNCOMPETITIVE ECONOMIC SYSTEM LONG CONTROLLED BY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, PRIVATE BUSINESS & INDUSTRIAL MONOPOLIES, & GOVERNMENT-FAVORED CARTELS -- ISRAELI CONSUMERS AT THE MERCY OF THOSE WHO CONTROL THE ECONOMY & INFLATE PRICES BY 100% OR MORE -- HIGH & REGRESSIVE TAXES, BUREAUCRACY, COSTLY REGULATIONS, & MISALLOCATION OF CREDIT STYMYING ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INHIBITING ECONOMIC GROWTH -- THE DIRE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE FREE-MARKET REFORMS IN ISRAEL
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Volume XIII, Issue # 190, August 3, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL'S COTTAGE-CHEESE REBELLION

By Daniel Doron



THE BLATANT POLITICAL BIAS OF A UNITED NATIONS AGENCY:  THE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF & WORKS AGENCY'S STRONG, UNCONCEALED BIAS AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL & IN FAVOR OF HAMAS & THE PALESTINIAN ARABS -- UNRWA DISEMINATION OF POLITICAL PROPAGANDA -- THE PROPENSITY FOR SENIOR UNRWA STAFF OFFICERS TO MAKE INAPPROPRIATE, INCENDIARY, & HIGHLY POLITICIZED PUBLIC STATEMENT'S, IN STARK CONTRAST TO THE AGENCY'S MANDATE -- SENIOR STAFF OFFICERS MAKING STATEMENTS THAT MISREPRESENT FACTS, AS WELL AS INCITE ARABS & EXACERBATE THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- UNRWA AS AN ANTI-ISRAELI & PRO-ARAB INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ORGANIZATION THAT IS A THREAT TO THE WEST & THE REST OF THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD -- THE NEED FOR A U.S.A.-LED MOVE TO WITHDRAW FUNDING FROM UNRWA & BRING ABOUT ITS DISSOLUTION
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Volume XIII, Issue # 184, July 28, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

UNRWA'S ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS

By Arlene Kushner



ISRAELIS SHOULD HOLD THEIR HEADS HIGH & POINT OUT THAT THE BUILDING OF THEIR COUNTRY WAS BASED ON THE LEAST VIOLENT & MOST CIVILIZED MOVEMENT OF ANY PEOPLE IN HISTORY. GANGS DID NOT STEAL PALESTINE; MERCHANTS PURCHASED ISRAEL.
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Volume XIII, Issue # 160, June 21, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BUILDING THE STATE OF ISRAEL: THE MOST PEACEABLE
IN-MIGRATION & STATE CREATION IN HISTORY

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



ACADEMIC UNIONS IN THE U.S.A. & THEIR ROLE IN THE PROPAGANDA OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  INVOLVEMENT OF MANZAR FOROOHAR & THE CALIFORNIA FACULTY ASSOCIATION IN THE ANTI-ISRAELI & PRO-ARAB PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN -- THE BLATANTLY ANTI- ISRAEL RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE CFA BOARD OF DIRECTORS ON FEBRUARY 7, 2009, & PASSED BY THE CFA GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON APRIL 4-5, 2009 -- WHY WOULD AN ACADEMIC UNION THAT ACTS AS AN EXCLUSIVE BARGAINING AGENT WITHIN CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY & IS DEVOTED TO IMPROVING WORKING CONDITIONS FOR CFA MEMBERS PASS A RESOLUTION REGARDING INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS?
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Volume XIII, Issue # 145, June 3, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MANZAR FOROOHAR: THE CALIFORNIA FACULTY ASSOCIATION'S
SECRET WEAPON

By Lee Kaplan



SAREE'S MAKDISI'S VERSION OF A "JUST PEACE" BETWEEN PALESTINIANS & ISRAELIS:  A SINGLE-STATE SOLUTION TO THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- CREATION OF A PALESTINIAN STATE THAT WOULD INCLUDE ALL THE TERRITORY OF HISTORIC PALESTINE -- A STATE WITH A POPULATION CONSISTING OF THE ISRAELI JEWS, PALESTINIAN ARABS CURRENTLY RESIDING IN THE GAZA STRIP, THE WEST BANK & THE STATE OF ISRAEL, & PALESTINIANS LIVING IN "FORCED EXILE" IN OTHER STATES -- GUARANTEE TO PALESTINIANS LIVING IN EXILE THE "RIGHT OF RETURN" TO THE LANDS NOW COMPRISING THE STATE OF ISRAEL, THEREBY ERACING THE JEWISH CHARACTER OF ISRAEL -- A PROPOSED SOLUTION BASED ON MAKDISI'S OBVIOUSLY ANTI-ISRAELI & PRO-ARAB BIAS
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Volume XIII, Issue # 144, June 1, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SAREE MAKDISI'S ONE-STATE SOLUTION
A DELUSIVE "JUST PEACE"

By Gideon Spitzer



THE VAST & INTRICATE NETWORK OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN THE INTERNATIONAL DELEGITIMIZATION-OF-ISRAEL CAMPAIGN:  ORGANIZATIONS WHICH ARE FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION & INDIVIDUAL EUROPEAN STATES & WHICH ARE BUSY FANNING THE FLAMES OF PALESTINIAN & ARAB REJECTIONISM, WHETHER THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF "THE RIGHT OF RETURN," SUPPORT OF THE BOYCOTT-DIVESTMENT-&-SANCTIONS MOVEMENT, OR DISCOURAGEMENT OF THE ACCEPTANCE OF ISRAEL -- ORGANIZATIONS UNIFIED BY THEIR OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSED TWO-STATE RESOLUTION OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT, & BY IMPLICATION, OPPOSITION TO ISRAEL'S VERY EXISTENCE -- ACTION TAKEN BY THE ISRAELI KNESSET TO INVESTIGATE THE SITUATION -- SHOULD THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT BE FAULTED FOR TRYING TO RESIST THE FOREIGN-FUNDED ENDEAVOR TO UNDERMINE & DESTROY THE STATE OF ISRAEL?
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Volume XIII, Issue # 141, May 31, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS VERSUS ISRAEL

By Ben-Dror Yemini



MAHMOUD ABBAS:  HIS DISTORTED SAGA OF THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL AS A SOVEREIGN NATION-STATE -- TURNING THE ARAB AGGRESSORS INTO HAPLESS VICTIMS & THE JEWISH VICTIMS INTO MERCILESS CONQUERORS -- NOTHING SAID ABOUT THE JEWISH ACCEPTANCE OF PALESTINIAN ARAB STATEHOOD, AS PART OF THE UNITED NATIONS PARTITION RESOLUTION OF NOVEMBER, 1947, LET ALONE THE VIOLENT PALESTINIAN RESPONSE TO THE RESOLUTION -- NO MENTION OF THE FACT THAT HUGE NUMBERS OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES WERE DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES BY THEIR OWN LEADERS &/OR ARAB MILITARY MILITARY FORCES WHICH HAD ENTERED THE COUNTRY TO FIGHT THE JEWS & PREVENT PALESTINIAN ARABS FROM BECOMING CITIZENS OF THE PROSPECTIVE JEWISH STATE -- NO ACTS OF FORCIBLE ARAB EXPULSION ON THE PART OF THE JEWS -- LACK OF COMMUNAL COHESION AMONG PALESTINIAN ARABS -- RAPID UNRAVELING OF PALESTINIAN SOCIETY
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Volume XIII, Issue # 128, May 20, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ABBAS'S FABLE

By Efraim Karsh



THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY, THE POLITICAL LEFT, ANTI-SEMITISM, & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY RELATING TO THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE SUBTLE & NOT-SO-SUBTLE WAYS IN WHICH THE LIBERAL LEFTIST OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DEMONSTRATES ITS ANTI-ISRAELI BIAS & ITS PRO-ISLAMIC TILT -- OBAMA SEEKING TO UNDERMINE THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR ISRAEL'S ISLAMIST ENEMIES TO REALIZE THEIR ULTIMATE GOAL, NAMELY, TO WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH
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Volume XIII, Issue # 120, May 15, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

OBAMA VERSUS ISRAEL

By Alan Caruba



AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY & THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT:  U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S PEACE INITIATIVE SIDELINED BY PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS' REFUSAL TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATING WITH ISRAEL, IN THE ABSENCE OF APRIORI ISRAELI CONCESSIONS -- THE PALESTINIAN DEMAND FOR AN INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION OF STATEHOOD FOR PALESTINE AT THE NEXT SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY'S PROPOSED UN RESOLUTION (1) FORMALLY RECOGNIZING THE EXISTENCE OF A PALESTINIAN STATE, (2) PROVIDING FOR ADMISSION OF PALESTINE AS A MEMBER-STATE OF THE UNITED NATIONS, (3) DECLARING THAT THE PRE-1967 ARMISTICE LINE SHOULD BE THE BASIS FOR FUTURE NEGOTIATIONS OVER PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI BORDERS, & (4) PROVIDING THAT EASTERN JERUSALEM IS TO BE THE CAPITAL OF THE PALESTINIAN STATE
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Volume XIII, Issue # 118, May 11, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ABBAS VERSUS OBAMA

By Dr. Steven J. Rosen



ISRAEL & THE CURRENT MIDDLE EASTERN UPHEAVALS:  ISRAEL SURROUNDED BY A NEWLY UNSTABLE ARAB WORLD -- ISRAEL FACING UNCERTAINTY ON EVERY FRONT -- HOW SHOULD ISRAEL WEATHER THE STORMS UNLEASHED BY THE SOCALLED "ARAB SPRING"?  HOW MIGHT THE PRESENT SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST IMPACT ON THE TACTICS OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS?  HOW COULD THIS SHIFT IN PALESTINIAN BEHAVIOR BE TO ISRAEL'S DETRIMENT?  WHAT MUST ISRAEL DO IN ORDER TO AVOID SUCH AN OUTCOME?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XIII, Issue # 111, May 3, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHAT IS ISRAEL'S NEXT MOVE IN THE NEW MIDDLE EAST?

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



WESTERN LEADERS MISREADING THE IDEOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW OF THE MEMBERS & SUPPORTERS OF THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST MOVEMENT:  A DANGEROUSLY DELUSIONAL MISREADING OF MILITANT ISLAM & ITS STRATEGY FOR ACHIEVING POLITICAL CONTROL & DOMINATION OF THE ENTIRE WORLD -- FLAWED ANALYSIS OF SUCH ISLAMIST ORGANIZATIONS AS AL-QA'IDA, HAMAS, & THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XIII, Issue # 75, March 23, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PINACLE OF INCOMPETENCE

By Dr. Efraim Karsh



WHAT THE LEAKED PALESTINE PAPERS REVEAL ABOUT ARAB & PALESTINIAN ASPIRATIONS FOR A PALESTINIAN STATE -- THE ANALYSIS EFRAIM KARSH:  THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP & THE NEIGHBORING ARAB STATES HAVE NEVER BEEN GENUINELY INTERESTED IN CREATING AN INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE.
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XIII, Issue # 53, February 21, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DOES THE ARAB WORLD TRULY WANT A "PALESTINE"?
A Summary Account of Efraim Karsh's
Briefing to the Middle East Forum

By Alessandra Grace



THE SUBVERSIVE & TREASONABLE CHARACTER OF MANY U.S. COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES:  THE PROFESSORS' DEMAND THAT ISRAEL, A SOVEREIGN STATE & ALLY OF THE U.S.A., NEGOTIATE WITH HAMAS, AN ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION RESPONSIBLE FOR MURDERING & MAIMING NUMEROUS INNOCENT ISRAELIS & DEDICATED TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- WHY STRATEGIES INVOLVING ISRAEL'S ACCEPTANCE OF & NEGOTIATION WITH HAMAS ARE ILL-ADVISED -- A CRITIQUE OF THE CONSTANT ACADEMIC CRITICISMS OF ISRAELI POLICY & SOCIETY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XIII, Issue # 38, February 6, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PROFESSORS PUSH ISRAEL TO NEGOTIATE WITH HAMAS

By Janet Doerflinger



THE REPEATED FAILURE OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT DURING THE PAST DECADE TO GUAGE THE EXTENT OF ANTI-PEACE SENTIMENTS AMONG PALESTINIANS:  THE DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES OF WASHINGTON'S FAILURE TO ASCERTAIN THE PALESTINIANS' LACK OF INTEREST IN ENDING THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- U.S. PRESIDENT OBAMA'S RECENT AMBITIOUS PUSH TO BRING ABOUT AN END TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT & PERHAPS EVEN HELP THE PALESTINIAN ARABS TO DECLARE & ESTABLISH A SOVEREIGN PALESTINIAN STATE IN GAZA & THE WEST BANK -- COULD THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BE RUSHING HEADLONG INTO YET ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC FAILURE?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XIII, Issue # 21, January 21, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHAT PALESTINIANS ARE SAYING ONLINE

By Dr. Jonathan Schanzer



UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- IS AMERICA'S BOND WITH ISRAEL ABSOLUTE, UNSHAKEABLE, & ROCK SOLID?   U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S REPEATED AFFIRMATIONS, AS REGARDS THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION -- ISRAELI PUBLIC OPINION ON THE SUBJECT -- THE OPINION OF PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS -- RICH OPPORTUNITIES PERCEIVED BY ABBAS & THE PALESTINIAN STRATEGY BASED ON THOSE PERCEPTIONS -- JEWISH SETTLEMENTS IN EAST JERUSALEM & THE ISSUE OF LEGITIMACY -- THE CURRENT POSITION OF ABBAS ON BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT & THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY -- OBAMA, THE U.S. CONGRESS, & UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XIII, Issue # 9, January 7, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

OBAMA'S MOMENT OF TRUTH AT THE UN

By Dr. Steven J. Rosen



IMPLICATIONS OF THE WIKILEAKS REVELATIONS REGARDING THE MIDDLE EAST, & THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE REGION:  EXPOSURE OF AN "ARAB COLD WAR" PARADIGM CRUCIAL TO UNDERSTANDING THE MIDDLE EAST -- CONCERNS OF U.S. ALLIES OVER IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM PROOF OF A MIDDLE EASTERN SITUATION FAR MORE COMPLEX THAN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- WHAT THE WIKILEAKS REVELATIONS INDICATE, AS REGARDS U.S. FOREIGN POLICYMAKERS' PERCEPTION & UNDERSTANDING OF TURKEY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XIII, Issue # 8, January 6, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WIKILEAKS REVELATIONS:  MORE GOOD THAN BAD?
LEE SMITH'S BRIEFING TO THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM

By Alessandra Grace



MEDIA DISTORTION ABOUT ISRAEL:  THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA MISLEADS, EVEN AS IT INFORMS ON THE SUBJECT OF ISRAEL. *** THE ARAB WORLD & INNOVATION IN TERRORISM:  THE AREA WHERE ARABS SEEM MOST ADEPT AT INNOVATION IS TERRORISM. AIRPLANE HIJACKINGS, SUICIDE BOMBINGS, & MEGA-TERRORISM ARE AMONG THEIR CLAIMS TO ORIGINALITY.
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XIII, Issue # 7, January 5, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE MIDDLE EAST:  TWO BLOGS BY DANIEL PIPES

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA & THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- INACTION OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IN THE FACE OF THE PALESTINIAN LEADERS' REFUSAL TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT -- PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS BLOCKING THE SOLE PATH TOWARD A SOLUTION OF THE ISSUE REGARDING ISRAELI CONSTRUCTION OF JEWISH HOMES IN JEWISH NEIGHBORHOODS OUTSIDE THE PRE-1967 LINE IN EAST JERUSALEM -- PALESTINIAN ABANDONMENT OF THE OSLO PEACE PROCESS -- REVERSION TO THE PRE-OSLO STRATEGY OF THE PALESTINIANS REJECTING CONTACT WITH ISRAEL & DEMANDING, INSTEAD, THAT THE GREAT POWERS IMPOSE ARAB TERMS ON THE JEWISH STATE -- ABBAS SETTING PRECONDITIONS FOR RESUMPTION OF ISRAELI-PALESTIAN NEGOTIATIONS -- RETICENCE OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO CONFRONT PALESTINIAN INTRANSIGENCE, REFLECTING SYMPATHY FOR THE ARABS & HOSTILITY TOWARD THE ISRAELIS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XIII, Issue # 6, January 5, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHY ISN'T OBAMA PRESSURING THE PALESTINIANS?

By Dr. Steven J. Rosen



THE STATE OF ISRAEL VERSUS AMERICAN, CANADIAN, & EUROPEAN ACADEMIA:   THE BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS MOVEMENT LED BY RADICAL LEFTISTS & ANTI-SEMITES ON THE FACULTIES OF NORTH AMERICAN & EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES -- A MOVEMENT SEEKING TO PRESSURE AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES TO CUT OFF ALL TIES WITH ISRAELI INSTITUTIONS & ADVOCATING A FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY RELATING TO THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- SEEKING AN ANTI-ISRAEL & PRO-PALESTINIAN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY -- PROMOTING A POLITICALLY ACTIVE ROLE FOR UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEMBERS & STUDENTS IN ACHIEVING THESE GOALS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 244, November 11, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HATEM BAZIAN: BERKELEY'S ISRAEL BOYCOTT ADVOCATE

By Cinnamon Stillwell & Rima Green



THE MIDDLE EAST, THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, & THE PRO-ARAB LOBBY IN THE U.S.A.:   U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY SUBJECT TO INFLUENCES BY PERSONS & GROUPS WHO BELIEVE THAT AMERICA'S NATIONAL INTEREST IS BEST SERVED BY DISTANCING THE U.S.A. FROM ISRAEL & CULTIVATING TIES WITH THE ARAB STATES -- PERSONS & GROUPS AGITATING BEHIND THE SCENES IN AMERICA FOR THE ADOPTION & IMPLEMENTATION OF U.S. GOVERNMENT FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS THAT ARE FAVORABLE TO THE ARABS & HOSTILE TOWARD ISRAEL -- COMPONENTS, UNDERLYING MOTIVES, & DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PRO-ARAB LOBBY -- THE SAUDI FACTOR AS THE MOST POTENT ELEMENT -- ARABISTS IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE & THEIR VIEWS & ACTIVITIES -- THE ROLE OF THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY -- THE ROLE OF THE U.S. DEFENSE INDUSTRY -- THE VERY LIMITED ROLE OF ARAB-AMERICANS, ANTI-ZIONIST CHRISTIANS, & U.S. MUSLIM RESIDENTS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 242, November 8, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ARAB LOBBY: THE AMERICAN COMPONENT

By Dr. Mitchell Bard



EUROPEAN INFLUENCE ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:   EUROPE & THE EUROPEANS AS THE STRONGEST EXTERNAL FORCE PRESSURING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM THE STATE OF ISRAEL & MOVE CLOSER TO THE ARABS -- THE BRITISH, FRENCH, & GERMANS AS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ARAB LOBBY TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 238, November 5, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ARAB LOBBY: THE EUROPEAN COMPONENT

By Steven J. Rosen



THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT:  WHAT PEOPLE COMPRISE THE PALESTINIAN NATION?  WHAT TERRITORY SHOULD BE INCLUDED WITHIN THE BORDERS OF A FUTURE SOVEREIGN STATE OF PALESTINE?  WHAT ARE THE ENGINES OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT?  WHAT RIGHTS HAVE BEEN DENIED TO THE PALESTINIANS?  HOW & BY WHOM? -- THE BIASED & DISTORTED ANALYSIS OF UCB PROFESSOR BESHARA DOUMANI IN HIS LECTURE AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY ON SEPTERBER 29, 2010 -- A REFLECTION OF THE "ALL OR NOTHING" MENTALITY SEEN IN LEADERS OF & SPOKESMEN FOR THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE
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Volume XII, Issue # 235, November 3, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

STANFORD HOSTS A HATE TALK

By Jonathan Gelbart



THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & THE "HOUSE OF ISLAM":  THE RESOUNDING FAILURE OF U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S POLICIES TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE MUSLIM WORLD -- OBAMA'S MISREADING OF THE HISTORY & WORLDVIEW OF ISLAM -- THE FAILURE OF OBAMA'S PANDERING TO ISLAMIC PREJUDICES (INCLUDING HIS GREATLY HYPED "OUTREACH" PLAN) TO GAIN FOR HIM & HIS PRESIDENCY THE QUIESCENCE, LET ALONE THE RESPECT & ADMIRATION, OF ARAB & MUSLIM SOCIETIES -- OBAMA'S ILL-CONCEIVED POLICIES OF "ENGAGEMENT" WITH IRAN & TURKEY & THE ABJECT FAILURE OF THOSE POLICIES -- THE PRESIDENT'S FLAWED POLICY TOWARD ISRAEL & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- HIS APPROACH TO U.S. MILITARY ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN & IRAQ -- THE NEED FOR OBAMA TO RECOGNIZE THE MANICHEAN & IRRECONCILABLE NATURE OF THE CHALLENGE POSED BY OUR ISLAMIC ADVERSARIES -- THE NEED TO REPLACE APPEASEMENT WITH CONTAINMENT & COUNTERATTACK
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 234, November 3, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ADRIFT IN ARABIA

By Dr. Efraim Karsh



GERMAN POLITICS, POLITICAL PARTIES, & POLICY ISSUES:  DIE FREIHEIT -- A NEW POLITICAL PARTY THAT STRONGLY OPPOSES ISLAMIZATION OF GERMANY & CALLS ON WESTERN GOVERNMENTS TO ROBUSTLY SUPPORT THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- THE BASIC PROGRAM OF DIE FREIHEIT -- APPLICATION OF TRADITIONAL WESTERN VALUES & POLICIES TO GERMAN POLITICAL LIFE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 232, November 2, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

GERMANY'S FREIHEIT PARTY JOINS THE FRAY

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



AMERICA'S TWO MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD ISRAEL, & THE U.S. CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS OF NOVEMBER 2, 2010:  THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY VERSUS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ON AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL & ITS GOVERNMENT -- THE PATTERN OF WEAK DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT & SIGNIFICANTLY STRONGER REPUBLICAN SUPPORT FOR THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- HOW AMERICAN VOTERS CONCERNED WITH ISRAEL'S WELFARE & SECURITY SHOULD VOTE IN THE IMPENDING CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 220, October 19, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL & CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, THE STATE OF ISRAEL, & THE FATE OF THE NEGROPONTE DOCTRINE:  U.S. POLICY TOWARD UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS CONDEMNING ISRAEL FOR MILITARY ACTION TAKEN IN ITS OWN DEFENSE AGAINST ARMED TERRORIST GROUPS ATTACKING ISRAELIS -- UNDER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, DOES THE U.S.A. REMAIN COMMITTED TO THE NEGROPONTE PRINCIPLE OF NONSUPPORT FOR SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS AGAINST ISRAEL THAT IGNORE THE EXPLICIT THREAT TO MIDDLE EAST PEACE POSED BY HAMAS & OTHER SUCH TERRORIST GROUPS? WILL OBAMA VETO ANY ANTI-ISRAEL RESOLUTION WHICH DOES NOT CONTAIN AN EXPLICIT CONDEMNATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTS OF TERRORISM & CALL FOR DISMANTLING THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORTING TERROR OPERATIONS?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 178, September 1, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WILL OBAMA USE HIS UN VETO?

By Dr. Stephen J. Rosen



ARAB STATES & THE ABDULLAH PLAN:  THE ABDULLAH PLAN AS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT & EXPLICIT COLLECTIVE ARAB DECLARATION IN FAVOR OF A PEACEFUL, MUTUALLY AGREED-ON RESOLUTION OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT EVER MADE -- MODIFICATION OF THE COLLECTIVE ARAB POSITION IN THE DIRECTION OF A MORE EXPLICIT RECOGNITION OF ISRAEL -- A MOVE TOWARD ARAB ACCEPTANCE OF THE REALITY OF A JEWISH STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- EVENTS & FORCES THAT HAVE MITIGATED THE VALUE & IMPORTANCE OF THE ARAB STATES' PEACE INITIATIVE -- THE ABDULLAH PLAN AS A GENUINE REFERENCE POINT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY REGARDING ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE-MAKING -- THE PLAN AS A MARKER DETERMINING THE SHAKY PARAMETERS OF ACCEPTABLE, COLLECTIVE ARAB ACTION ON A FINAL & PERMANENT ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE SETTLEMENT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 174, August 26, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ARABS VERSUS THE ABDULLAH PLAN

By Dr. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman



THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP AS THE OBSTACLE TO PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE PALESTINIANS:  THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP'S DOGMATIC REJECTION OF THE RIGHT OF ISRAEL TO EXIST -- THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP'S UNYIELDING COMMITMENT TO THE EVENTUAL DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- PALESTINIAN LEADERS' PERCEPTION OF THE PROPOSED TWO-STATE SOLUTION AS A TRANSIENT ARRANGEMENT REQUIRED BY THE NEEDS OF THE MOMENT THAT WOULD INEXORABLY LEAD TO THE LONG-CHERISHED GOAL OF ISRAEL'S DEMISE -- INSISTENCE ON THE "RIGHT OF RETURN" AS A NONNEGOTIABLE PREREQUISITE FOR ANY PEACE SETTLEMENT -- DETERMINATION TO CONTINUE THE "ARMED STRUGGLE" FOR THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 169, August 24, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NOT TAKING YES FOR AN ANSWER

By Dr. Efraim Karsh



PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA & U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY:  OBAMA'S AUDACITY OF HOPE, AS REGARDS THE OUTCOME OF DIRECT TALKS BETWEEN ISRAELIS & PALESTINIANS -- THE ZONE OF THE ATTAINABLE FOR OBAMA -- CAN OBAMA SCALE BACK HIS OBJECTIVES TO MORE LIMITED STEPS THAT CAN BE ACHIEVED, BUT FALL SHORT OF ENDING THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT FOREVER & TRANSFORMING THE MIDDLE EASTERN REGION?  ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU & THE FEASIBILITY OF PALESTINIAN SOVEREIGN STATEHOOD -- THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY & INTERIM ARRANGEMENTS FOR PEACE -- OBAMA & THE ROADMAP TO PEACE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 163, August 19, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BUSH'S GIFT TO OBAMA

By Dr. Steven J. Rosen



THE NATION-STATE, MULTINATIONAL STATES, & SHIFTING PARADIGMS:  GROWING SUPPORT FOR MULTINATIONALISM & INTERNATIONALISM AMONG WESTERN ELITES & THEIR DECLINING PERCEPTION OF THE SOVEREIGN NATION-STATE AS A LEGITIMATE & POSITIVE INSTRUMENT FOR PROTECTING PEOPLE & ALLOWING THEM TO FLOURISH -- WHY THE AMERICAN NATION-STATE, WHICH HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR HUMAN FREEDOM & WELFARE, INSPIRES HOSTILITY ON THE PART OF WESTERN ELITES -- ISRAEL AS A SOVEREIGN JEWISH NATION-STATE & ITS DELEGITIMIZATION IN THE WEST -- THE STATE OF ISRAEL & SHIFTING PARADIGMS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 160, August 17, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IMMANUEL KANT VERSUS ISRAEL

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



ARAB COMPASSION FOR THE PALESTINIANS?  HOW GREAT?  TAKING A CAREFUL LOOK AT REALITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  ARAB STATES, ARAB POLITICS, & THE LONG HISTORY ARAB ABUSE OF BOTH THE "PALESTINE QUESTION" & THE PALESTINIANS THEMSELVES -- ARAB RULERS, CONFLICTING IMPERIALIST AMBITIONS, & THE NATIONAL RIGHTS OF PALESTINIANS -- THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL CAUSE MANIPULATED BY ARAB LEADERS TO THEIR OWN ENDS -- PAN-ARABISM & ITS VIEW OF PALESTINE & THE PALESTINIANS -- ANTI-ZIONISM AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR ACHIEVING THE SELF-INTERESTED AIMS OF ARAB STATES -- A PARADOX:   HOW THE STATE OF ISRAEL HAS SAVED THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT FROM COMPLETE OBLIVION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 159, August 17, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE

By Dr. Efraim Karsh



BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE THE FIRST WORLD WAR:  A BRIEF HISTORY OF BRITISH MIDDLE EAST POLICY FROM BRITAIN'S RECEIVING THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS MANDATE FOR PALESTINE ON SEPTEMBER 26, 1923, TO PRESENT DATE -- HAS THE POLICY BEEN PRO-ARAB, ANTI-ZIONIST, ANTI-ISRAEL, & ANTI-JEWISH?  ARE ANTI-SEMITIC ATTITUDES CHARACTERISTIC OF THE BRITISH FOREIGN POLICYMAKING ESTABLISHMENT?  WHY HAVE THE ARABS ALWAYS BEEN FAR MORE MEANINGFUL TO BRITISH INTERESTS THAN HAVE THE JEWS?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 142, August 2, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SHIMON PERES VERSUS THE BRITS

By Dr. Efraim Karsh



IS RESOLUTION OF THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT A PREREQUISITE TO PEACE & STABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  HOW GREAT AN INTEREST DO ARABS & ARAB STATES HAVE IN THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI PEACE TALKS?   WHAT ARAB POLICIES SINCE THE MID-1930S SUGGEST -- ARAB STATES & THE DEGREE OF THEIR CONCERN FOR THE WELL-BEING OF PALESTINIANS -- ARAB REGIMES & THEIR INTEREST IN FIGHTING FOR PALESTINIAN NATIONAL RIGHTS -- THE HISTORY OF ARAB LEADERS MANIPULATING THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE FOR THEIR OWN ENDS, WHILE IGNORING THE FATE OF THE PALESTINIANS -- IN WHAT DOES THE ONLY HOPE OF PEACE BETWEEN ARABS & ISRAELIS LIE?  WHAT THE PALESTINIANS NEED TO UNDERSTAND -- WHAT THEY MUST DO?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 141, August 2, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PALESTINIANS, ALONE

By Dr. Efraim Karsh



A QUESTION PROMPTED BY THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT'S RAGE OVER WHAT IT CALLS ISRAEL'S "OPEN-AIR JAIL" IN GAZA:  IS ISRAEL IN GAZA REALLY WORSE THAN TURKEY IN CYPRUS?  COMPARISON & CONTRAST TO DETERMINE THE TRUTH -- INSTEAD OF MEDDLING IN GAZA, SHOULD NOT TURKISH LEADERS END TURKEY'S ILLEGAL, DISRUPTIVE, DECADES-LONG MILITARY OCCUPATION OF NORTHERN CYPRUS?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 131, July 20, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TURKEY IN CYPRUS VERSUS ISRAEL IN GAZA

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  ITS ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT, & CURRENT STATUS -- THE VERY DIM PROSPECTS FOR RESOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT, EXCEPT BY APPLICATION OF OVERWHELMING FORCE & VIOLENCE & ACHIEVEMENT OF A TOTAL MILITARY VICTORY BY ONE SIDE OVER THE OTHER -- FAILURE TO ADOPT & IMPLEMENT THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION TO THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM, DUE TO VIOLENT OPPOSITION ON THE PART OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS & THEIR SUPPORTERS THROUGHOUT THE ARAB WORLD -- PALESTINIAN ARAB TERRORISM -- THE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS' LEADERSHIP -- DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL & ANNIHILATION OF THE ISRAELI POPULATION
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Volume XII, Issue # 130, July 20, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHO'S AGAINST A TWO-STATE SOLUTION?

By Dr. Efraim Karsh



THE PATTERN OF PALESTINIAN DUPLICITY & DOUBLE-SPEAK UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF YASIR ARAFAT:  DID ARAFAT'S SUCCESSOR, MAHMOUD ABBAS, BREAK FROM THIS PATTERN, OR DID HE CONTINUE IT?  WHAT DOES THE EVIDENCE INDICATE?  WHEN WILL WE IN THE WEST STOP DELUDING OURSELVES THAT MAHMOUD ABBAS & THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY SEEK ANYTHING LESS THAN THE TOTAL ELIMINATION OF THE JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL?  WHAT DISASTER MUST OCCUR BEFORE WE OPEN OUR EYES TO REALITY?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 117, July 6, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TRUST THE PALESTIAN AUTHORITY?

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



MUQTEDAR KHAN:  AN EXAMPLE OF OUTSPOKEN ANTI-SEMITES AMONG AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS -- APPALLING & ABSURD STATEMENTS MADE BY PROFESSOR KHAN -- HIS DISTORTED & INACCURATE ANALYSIS OF JEWS, CHRISTIANS, & MUSLIMS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XII, Issue # 110, June 28, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MUQTEDAR KHAN: VOICE OF HATE

By Jared Sorhaindo



CALIFORNIA'S ANTI-ISRAEL ACADEMICS:  ANTI-ZIONIST & ANTI-SEMITIC CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS TARGETING THE STATE OF ISRAEL FOR AN ACADEMIC & CULTURAL BOYCOTT -- CALIFORNIA ACADEMICS & THE BDS (BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, & SANCTIONS) MOVEMENT -- RANK ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT -- THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MADE CALIFORNIA'S STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER "EDUCATION" RIPE FOR THE MALADIES OF RADICAL POLITICS & LEFTWING ANTI-SEMITISM
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Volume XII, Issue # 102, June 15, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TARGET ISRAEL

By Cinnamon Stillwell



A TROUBLED ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE -- BIASED & DISTORTED ANALYSIS OF MAJOR NEWS EVENTS BY UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES:  LEADING MIDDLE EAST "SCHOLARS" PUT ON THEIR IDEOLOGICAL BLINDERS & DENOUNCED THE STATE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS ACTION IN THE GAZA FLOTILLA INCIDENT.  THE PROFESSORS IGNORED OVERWHELMING VIDEO & DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE OF THE MERCENARIES' RADICAL AGENDA & AFFINITY FOR VIOLENCE.  THE PROFESSORS' SHOWED NO INTEREST IN THE BLOCKADE-RUNNERS TERRORIST CONNECTIONS.  BASIC BACKGROUND INFORMATION WAS MISSING FROM THE ACADEMICS' ANALYSES.  UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS MADE BY THE PROFESSORS WERE NOT CHALLENGED BY THE MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS THAT INVITED THE PROFESSORS TO SPEAK.
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Volume XII, Issue # 101, June 13, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROFESSORS USURP NEW ROLES
TO CENSURE ISRAEL OVER GAZA FLOTILLA

By Brendan Goldman



WILL THE ARMED MIGHT OF THE U.S.A., ALREADY PRESENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN AFGHANISTAN, IN IRAQ & IN THE PERSIAN GULF, BE USED TO THWART AN ISLAMIC DRIVE TO DESTROY THE POPULATION, CULTURE, & INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL? THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION WAITS UPON THE DECISION OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.
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Volume XII, Issue # 100, June 12, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AWAITING ARMAGEDDON

By Alan Caruba



TURKEY'S REACTION TO THE GAZA FLOTILLA INCIDENT:  COULD IT BE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING MORE TO TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN'S RAGE AGAINST ISRAEL THAN JUST A SPONTANEOUS REACTION TO THE LOSS OF NINE TURKISH LIVES IN THE INCIDENT?  TURKEY'S 2011 ELECTIONS AS HOLDING THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION OF WHY ERDOGAN DECIDED TO PLAY THE ISRAEL CARD -- WHY TURKEY IS FERTILE GROUND FOR ERDOGAN'S ANTI-ISRAEL & ANTI-SEMITIC DEMAGOGUERY -- ANTI-AMERICANISM IN TURKEY & THE REASONS FOR ITS EXISTENCE -- ANTI-ZIONISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, & ANTI-AMERICANISM AS MUTUALLY REINFORCING & CONVERGING POLITICAL FORCES IN TURKEY
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Volume XII, Issue # 98, June 10, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ERDOGAN & THE ISRAEL CARD

By Steven J. Rosen



CAN BARACK OBAMA'S JEWISH, ZIONIST, & OTHER PRO-ISRAELI SUPPORTERS IN THE U.S.A. ACT IN A WAY THAT WILL CHANGE THE DIRECTION OF CURRENT U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY EMINATING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE?  WILL AMERICANS OF PRO-ISRAELI PERSUASION ACCEPT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VIEW THAT THE STATE OF ISRAEL BEARS SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE LOSS OF AMERICAN "BLOOD & TREASURE" IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  WILL THEY CONTINUE TO EXTEND THEIR SUPPORT TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY?
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Volume XII, Issue # 91, June 1, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

OBAMA, ISRAEL, & AMERICAN JEWS: THE CHALLENGE

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE KEY ISSUE OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ISRAELI JEWS & THE PALESTINIAN ARABS:  SHOULD THERE BE A JEWISH STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  SHOULD ISRAEL BE ACCEPTED AS A SOVEREIGN JEWISH STATE?  THE FAILURE OF ISRAELI-ARAB DIPLOMACY TO DEAL WITH THE CENTRAL ISSUE OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- TO WHAT MUST PEACEMAKERS DIRECT THEIR ATTENTION IN ENDEAVORING TO RESOLVE THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT?
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Volume XII, Issue # 70, May 11, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ACCEPTING ISRAEL AS THE JEWISH STATE

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



EFRAIM KARSH'S HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  REFUTATION OF THE NAKBA IDEOLOGY, WHICH BLAMES ISRAEL ALONE FOR THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE PROBLEM -- USING IN-DEPTH ARCHIVAL RESEARCH, CLEAR PRESENTATION & HISTORICAL SENSIBILITY, KARSH MAINTAINS THAT THE PALESTINIAN ARAB POLITICAL ELITE DECIDED THE DESTINY OF PALESTINIANS & BEARS NEAR-TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PALESTINIANS' INVOLVEMENT IN THE FIRST ISLAELI-ARAB WAR (1947-1949), THEIR DEFEAT IN THAT WAR, & THEIR BECOMING REFUGEES.
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Volume XII, Issue # 64, May 6, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

EFRAIM KARSH'S PALESTINE BETRAYED: A REVIEW

By Dr Daniel Pipes



VICTORY:  THE ONE & ONLY SURE ROUTE TO PEACE.  PEACE IS ACHIEVED WHEN ONE SIDE IN A WAR IS VICTORIOUS OVER ITS ENEMIES.  WHAT THE HISTORICAL RECORD CONFIRMS:  PEACE COMES WHEN ONE SIDE CONCEDES DEFEAT & THE OTHER SIDE WINS THE WAR.  DANIEL PIPES' PEACE PLAN FOR THE MIDDLE EAST:  AN ISRAELI VICTORY OVER THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL.
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Volume XII, Issue # 61, April 29, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MY PEACE PLAN: AN ISRAELI VICTORY

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



A BLATANTLY BIASED ACCOUNT OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT:  AN ACCOUNT THAT OBVIOUSLY REFLECTS THE AUTHOR'S SYMPATHY & SUPPORT FOR THE CAUSE OF THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION & HIS BITTER OPPOSITION TO EXISTENCE OF THE JEWISH STATE -- A BOOK THAT UNDERSCORES THE UNFAIR, DISHONEST, & DECEPTIVE MANNER IN WHICH THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT IS DEALT WITH IN MAINSTREAM ACADEME
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Volume XII, Issue # 54, March 25, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT -- 100 YEARS OF WAR:
A REVIEW OF JAMES L. GELVIN'S BOOK

By Dr. Martin Sherman



DAYTON'S MEN:  CONSEQUENCES OF AMERICAN EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE MILITARY FORCE OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY -- ENHANCING THE FIGHTING POWER OF ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A. & ISRAEL -- THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP'S UNENDING DETERMINATION TO DESTROY ISRAEL & UNDERMINE U.S. INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE U.S.-TRAINED & EQUIPPED PALESTINIAN TROOPS WILL BE EMPLOYED TO HELP PALESTINIANS ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS OF ELIMINATING ISRAEL & UNDERMINING U.S. INTERESTS -- WHAT THE U.S. CONGRESS SHOULD DO ABOUT THIS DANGEROUS SITUATION
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Volume XII, Issue # 47, March 16, 2010

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AMERICAS SHINY NEW PALESTINIAN MILITIA

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD ISRAEL:  BENJAMIN NETANYAHU'S RECENT VISIT TO THE U.S.A. & OBAMA'S SNUB OF THE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER -- WHY OBAMA IS RELUCTANT TO MAINTAIN CLOSE RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL -- THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM -- THE IMPORTANCE OF RENEWING U.S.-ISRAELI STRATEGIC COOPERATION ON THE IRANIAN CRISIS
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Volume XI, Issue # 195, November 9, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DON'T TAKE NETANYAHU TO THE WOODSHED

By Steven J. Rosen



ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST AS A SOVEREIGN NATION-STATE:  WHO IN THE WEST CHALLENGES THE RIGHT OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN JEWISH STATE TO EXIST?  THE RISE OF ANTI=SEMITISM IN ACADEMIC CIRCLES & STUDENT MOVEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE WESTERN WORLD -- A ROBUST ACADEMIC REFUTATION OF LATTER-DAY, "INTELLECTUAL" ANTI-SEMITISM & ITS CALLS FOR THE ABOLITION OF ISRAEL
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Volume XI, Issue # 191, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL & THE FAMILY OF NATIONS
A BOOK REVIEW

By Seth J. Frantzman



UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  AN ATTEMPT OF A RADICAL ANTI-ZIONIST TO INFLUENCE AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN WAYS THAT COULD FURTHER HARM U.S. INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CREDIBILITY OF NORTON MEZVINSKY & THE PROPAGANDA HE WILL DISSEMINATE THROUGH THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
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Volume XI, Issue # 173, August 16, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NORTON MEZVINSKY'S LAMENTABLE LEGACY, & HIS FUTURE

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  WHY THERE WILL BE NO LASTING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE PEACE -- CLASHING CULTURES, DIFFERING HISTORICAL TRADITIONS, & GEOPOLITICS IN A HARSH ENVIRONMENT -- AN ADDITIONAL EXACERBATING FACTOR:  THE ISLAMIC "REPUBLIC" OF IRAN, ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM, & ITS CONSTANT THREATS TO "WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE MAP"
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Volume XI, Issue # 163, July 25, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE JERUSALEN QUANDARY

By Alan Caruba



THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD ISRAEL:  OBAMA'S PLAN FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING IN JERUSALEM -- HIS DEMAND THAT PARTS OF JERUSALEM BE PURGED OF JEWS & RESERVED FOR THE ARABS -- JUST HOW FAR DO OBAMA & HIS FAR-LEFTIST HENCHMEN PLAN TO GO WITH THEIR PRO-ARAB & ANTI-SEMITIC HARDLINE POLICY OF CONFRONTATION WITH ISRAEL, AS REGARDS ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS IN EAST JERUSALEM?  SINCE IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT ANY MAJOR ISRAELI POLITICAL PARTY WOULD AGREE TO MAKING A PART OF JERUSALEM A JUDENREIN, HOW SOON WILL OBAMA SUCCEED IN BREAKING UP THE AMERICAN-ISRAELI ALLIANCE?
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Volume XI, Issue # 157, July 21, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TOUGH LOVE IS NO LOVE AT ALL:
Why Obama's Approach to Israel Is Collapsing, Rapidly

By Dr. Stephen J. Rosen



THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT: OBAMA'S HARD-LINE POSITION ON ISRAEL'S WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS -- WILL OBAMA'S RADICALISM & HAM-HANDED DIPLOMACY SABOTAGE THE LONG-STANDING ALLIANCE BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE U.S.A.? THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY AS A SUBVERSIVE THREAT TO AMERICA'S VITAL NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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Volume XI, Issue # 154, July 3, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CUT BIBI NETANYAHU SOME SLACK:
Why Obama's Hard Line on Israeli Settlements Is Counterproductive

By Dr. Steven J. Rosen



THE FUTURE OF THE U.S.-ISRAELI ALLIANCE:  WILL THIS LONG-STANDING ALLIANCE SURVIVE ITS 62ND.YEAR?   WILL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & ISRAEL OVER THE PROPOSED TWO-STATE SOLUTION PROMPT A CRISIS IN U.S.-ISRAELI RELATIONS?  WILL THE HIGHLY CRITICAL, ANTI-ZIONIST VIEWS OF PRESIDENT OBAMA & HIS FELLOW LEFTWING LIBERAL DEMOCRATS TRANSLATE INTO A SHIFT IN U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY AT THE FORTHCOMING SUMMIT MEETING BETWEEN OBAMA & NETANYAHU?  HOW DEEP DOES OBAMA'S ANTIPATHY TOWARD THE JEWISH STATE RUN? WHAT FACTORS ARE LIKELY TO MITIGATE THE ANTIPATHY?
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Volume XI, Issue # 127, May 17, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

OBAMA & NETANYAHU MEET: WHAT'S NEXT

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



AL-QA'IDA & THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD:  THE GLOBAL TERROR WAR THAT AL-QA'IDA HAS BEEN WAGING DURING THE PAST TWO DECADES -- AL-QA'IDA'S LONGTERM WAR AIMS -- PROBLEMS THAT THE ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORKS ARE CREATING FOR AMERICA & THE WEST IN THE MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH CENTRAL ASIA -- BARRIERS HINDERING U.S. INTELLIGENCE WORK IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- OBSTACLES TO U.S.-ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION
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Volume XI, Issue # 125, May 14, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISLAMIST TERRORISM, TERROR & IRAQ:
A BRIEFING BY SHIMSHON ISSAKI

Summary Account by Dr, David J. Rusin



THE STATE OF ISRAEL VERSUS THE ISLAMIC FORCES OF THE MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH CENTRAL ASIA:  THE JEWS' HISTORICAL CLAIM TO A HOMELAND IN WESTERN ASIA -- THE HISTORY OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL SINCE ITS RE-ESTABLISHMENT AS A JEWISH STATE IN 1948 -- HOW ISRAELI POLITICS HAS WEAKENED ISRAELI NATIONAL SECURITY -- UNITED NATIONS EFFORTS TO DESTROY ISRAEL -- U.S. GOVERNMENT ACTIONS UNDERMINING THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- WHAT ISRAEL MUST DO IN ORDER TO SURVIVE AS A FREE & INDEPENDENT NATION-STATE
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Volume XI, Issue # 121, May 10, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL IN THE CROSSHAIRS

By Alan Caruba



THE NEW ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER'S MAIDEN SPEECH:  TOPICS COVERED BY FOREIGN MINISTER AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN IN HIS SPEECH:  THE NEW WORLD ORDER, THE CHANGE NEEDED IN THE FREE WORLD'S INTERNATIONAL SECURITY PRIORITIES, EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI RELATIONS, THE FUTILITY OF GIVING LIP SERVICE TO WORLD PEACE, SHARING THE BURDEN OF REAL PEACE, THE ROAD MAP TO PEACE & ITS IMPLEMENTATION, THE MISTAKE OF MAKING CONCESSIONS, & WHEN ISRAEL WAS AT ITS STRONGEST IN TERMS OF PUBLIC OPINION.
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Volume XI, Issue # 95, April 2, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN'S BRILLIANT DEBUT

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



PUBLIC RELATIONS & PERCEPTION OF UNDERDOG STATUS IN A CONTEMPORARY WAR: THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPAGANDA & CREATING ILLUSIONS IN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT
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Volume XI, Issue # 94, April 1, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ARABS, ISRAELIS, & UNDERDOGS

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE PALESTINIAN MINORITY THAT IS WILLING TO LIVE IN PEACE WITH THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF THIS MINORITY IN THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT BETWEEN ARAB REJECTIONISTS & THE ZIONISTS -- THE MOTIVES OF THE ZIONISTS' PALESTINIAN ARAB ALLIES -- THE IMPORTANCE OF PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE & COLLABORATION IN THE SUCCESS OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT IN ESTABLISHING & MAINTAINING THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN THE HOLY LAND
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Volume XI, Issue # 91, March 26, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PALESTINIANS WHO HELPED CREATE ISRAEL

By Dr.Daniel Pipes



WILL BINYAMIN NETANYAHU KEEP HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN PROMISES?  WILL HE PUT AN END TO HAMAS CONTROL OF GAZA?  WILL HE KEEP THE GOLAN HEIGHTS UNDER ISRAELI CONTROL?  WHAT CONCLUSIONS SHOULD BE DEDUCED FROM (1) THE GENERAL PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR OF THE FOUR LIKUD PRIME MINISTERS SINCE 1977 & (2) NATANYAHU'S OWN RECOND AS ONE OF THOSE FOUR PRIME MINISTERS?  WILL NETANYAHU AGAIN BETRAY THE ISRAELI VOTERS?
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Volume XI, Issue # 78, March 10, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NETANYAHU AS ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: DEJA VU?

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



ISRAEL'S GREATEST NEED:  ISRAELI POLITICAL LEADERS WHO UNDERSTAND THE COUNTRY'S STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES
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Volume XI, Issue # 36, January 28, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

EXPLAINING ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC MISTAKES

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT: THE DEMANDS OF A SAUDI PRINCE WHO HAS A HISTORY OF ISLAMIST RADICALISM VIS-A-VIS THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT -- PRINCE TURKI AL-FAISAL'S INSTRUCTIONS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA ON WHAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT MUST DO DO IN ORDER TO CONTINUE PLAYING A LEADERSHIP ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST & KEEP ITS STRATEGIC ALLIANCES INTACT, ESPECIALLY ITS SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA -- TURKI'S DEMAND THAT THERE BE A DRASTIC REVISION IN U.S. POLICIES VIS-A-VIS ISRAEL & PALESTINE
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Volume XI, Issue # 33, January 26, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

A SAUDI PRINCE'S THREAT TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE UNITED NATIONS, THE EUROPEAN POLITICAL LEFT, & THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD THE CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  WIDESPREAD ANTI-SEMITISM -- ANTI-ISRAELI & PRO-ARAB BIAS REGARDING THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- APPEASEMENT OF HAMAS -- WILLINGNESS TO ALLOW HAMAS TO RULE TYRANNICALLY OVER THE GAZA STRIP & MURDER BOTH ISRAELIS & PALESTINIANS
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Volume XI, Issue # 30, January 24, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE EUROPEAN LEFT:  MARCHING FOR HAMAS

By Denis MacEoin



THE NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITY & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  WILL THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & THE CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS TURN THEIR BACKS ON ISRAEL & SUPPORT HAMAS & HEZBOLLAH?
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Volume XI, Issue # 23, January 20, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE DEMOCRATS & ISRAEL

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE ISRAELI-HAMAS WAR & THE DEMAND FOR A CEASEFIRE:  NO TIME FOR A CEASEFIRE IN THE WAR IN WHICH ISRAEL IS DEFENDING ITSELF AGAINST HAMAS, A MASSIVELY FINANCED & ARMED ISLAMIST TERRORIST ENTITY THAT IS WAGING A JIHAD TO CONQUER & DESTROY ISRAEL & TO KILL ALL JEWS, THOSE IN THE DIASPORA AS WELL AS THOSE IN ISRAEL -- THE RULES OF WAR IN A JIHAD & HOW ISLAMISTS, UNDER THESE RULES, UTILIZE HUDNAS, OR CEASEFIRES, IN THEIR TERROR WAR AGAINST THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD -- THE DISASTROUS EVENTS THAT WOULD ENSUE, SHOULD ISRAEL & THE WEST GIVE UP THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ISLAMIST TERRORISM
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Volume XI, Issue # 15, January 14, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA?

By Dr. Denis MacEoin



THE ISRAELI-HAMAS WAR:  WHICH SIDE IS WINNING, WHICH SIDE IS LOSING?  THE NEED FOR A COOL STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT -- THE REAL ISSUE:  BAD DECISIONS MADE IN JERUSALEM -- CONSIDERING THOSE DECISIONS, HOW WELL HAS ISRAEL'S LEADERSHIP PERFORMED?  JERUSALEM'S PROFOUND STRATEGIC INCOMPETENCE & DISASTROUS PERFORMANCE -- THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT'S FAILED POLICIES SINCE 1993 THAT HAVE ERODED ISRAEL'S REPUTATION, STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE, & NATIONAL SECURITY -- HOW THE ISRAELI LEADERSHIP CREATED THE GAZA PROBLEM -- ISRAEL AS A POLITY FULL OF TALENT, ENERGY & RESOLVE, BUT LACKING DIRECTION
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Volume XI, Issue # 10, January 11, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC INCOMPETENCE IN GAZA

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE OLD QUANDARY THAT ISRAEL'S WAR AGAINST HAMAS BRINGS UP:  WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS?  WHAT DOES NOT & CANNOT WORK -- THE ONLY PRACTICAL APPROACH:  EGYPTIAN RULE IN THE GAZA STRIP & JORDANIAN CONTROL OF THE WEST BANK
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Volume XI, Issue # 7, January 7, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SOLVING THE "PALESTINIAN PROBLEM"

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



ISRAELI MILITARY ACTION AGAINST HAMAS IN GAZA & KNEE-JERK CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMANY TO PRESSURE ISRAEL INTO ENDING ITS ATTACK:  HAMAS POLICY AS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE CURRENT MILITARY CONFLICT IN GAZA -- THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN & UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AID TO PALESTINIANS ON HAMAS ROCKET & MORTAR FIRE FROM GAZA INTO ISRAEL -- THE ROLE OF SYRIA & IRAN IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- THE ROAD TO A SUSTAINABLE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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Volume XI, Issue # 3, January 5, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DIPLOMACY CANNOT QUELL GAZA VIOLENCE

By Dr. Michael Rubin



THE MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION:  A DEN OF POLITICAL PROPAGANDISTS & ACTIVISTS POSING AS SCHOLARS -- A BASTION OF GROUPTHINK FOR RADICAL ACTIVISTS ENGAGED IN POLITICALLY BIASED RESEARCH, ONE-SIDED TEACHING, & PEDDLING A PRO-ARAB, ANTI-WESTERN POLITICAL AGENDA -- A HIVE OF ACADEMIC OPPOSITION TO ISRAEL & THE U.S.A. -- FAILURE TO PROVIDE USEFUL INFORMATION ON ISLAM, ISLAMISM, & THE MIDDLE EAST -- DISREGARD OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS -- THE POLITICIZED, ANTI-WESTERN OLD GUARD STILL IN CONTROL OF MESA
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Volume XI, Issue # 2, January 5, 2009

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ON THE MEND?

By Jonathan Schanzer



THE PALESTINIANS' TROUBLED PATH TO STATEHOOD AS A PRODUCT OF THEIR OWN POLITICAL DIVISIONS -- THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN HAMAS & FATAH FOR THE TWO PALESTINIAN ARAB TERRITORIES & THE IMPACT OF THE STRUGGLE ON THE SECURITY & SURVIVAL OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- THE IMPACT OF THE STRUGGLE ON THE ISREALI-ARAB PEACE PROCESS & ITS EVENTUAL OUTCOME
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Volume X, Issue # 324, December 9, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE HAMAS-FATAH WAR & ISRAELI SECURITY:
A BRIEFING BY JONATHAN SCHANZER

Summary Account by Eric Bergel



SYRIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, & U.S. FOREIGN FOLICY:  OBAMA PLANNING DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SYRIA, HOPING TO WEAKEN SYRIA'S CONNECTION TO HAMAS & HEZBOLLAH & UNDERMINE THE SYRIAN-IRANIAN RELATIONSHIP -- ARAB HISTORY & POLITICAL CULTURE AS THE PRIMARY PROBLEM WITH PURSUIT OF OBAMA'S POLICY AGENDA IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- WHY ALL THREE RIVALS FOR LEADERSHIP OF THE ARAB WORLD, SYRIA, IRAQ & EGYPT, WILL NEVER COEXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY AS PARTNERS
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Volume X, Issue # 300, November 12, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SYRIA CANNOT BE FLIPPED

By Dr. Michael Rubin



INADEQUACY & IMBALANCE IN COVERAGE OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: ACADEMIC & JOURNALISTIC BIAS & NEGLECT -- LACK OF ATTENTION TO THE INTERNAL STRIFE BETWEEN PALESTINIAN FACTIONS & TO THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GAZA & THE WEST BANK -- U.S. MAINSTREAM MEDIA OVERREPORTING OF THE VIOLENCE BETWEEN PALESTINIANS & ISRAELIS & PROVIDING LITTLE OR NO COVERAGE OF THE EARLY STAGES OF THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN FATAH & HAMAS -- CONCEPTUAL MISTAKES & THE COST FOR U.S. FOREIGN POLICY OF INATTENTION TO THE FATAH-HAMAS FITNA
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Volume X, Issue # 298, November 11, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

JONATHAN SCHANZER'S HAMAS VS. FATAH:
FOREWORD

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY & ITS CIRCLES OF INFLUENCE:  OBAMA'S LONG LIST OF OBJECTIONABLE & RADICAL ALLIANCES -- OBAMA'S ASSOCIATIONS WITH TERRORISTS & TERRORIST SYMPHATHIZERS -- OBAMA'S TUTELAGE UNDER MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROFESSORS WHO VIEW AMERICA & ISRAEL AS IMPERIALIST POWERS RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRTUALLY EVERY SHORTCOMING & FAILURE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD, INCLUDING RADICAL ISLAM -- AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY UNDER AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY
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Volume X, Issue # 289, November 2, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

OBAMA'S MIDDLE EAST STUDIES MENTORS

By Cinnamon Stillwell



HISTORY OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT:  JEWS & ARABS IN THE MIDDLE EAST PRIOR TO 1948 -- EARLY ZIONIST ATTITUDES TOWARD THE ARAB POPULATION OF PALESTINE -- DAVID BEN-GURION ON THE ORIGIN OF THE FALAHIN -- BEN-GURION ON PALESTINIAN ARAB RIGHTS -- CHAIM WEIZMANN ON THE NATIONAL RIGHTS OF PALESTINIANS -- BEN-GURION ON PALESTINIAN SELF-DETERMINATION -- ZE'EV JABOTINSKY ON JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO PALESTINE & ON PALESTINIAN ARAB FEARS OF A MASSIVE IMMIGRATION
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Volume X, Issue # 285, October 31, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

EARLY ZIONISTS & ARABS

By Dr. Judea Pearl



WHAT THE PLO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED IN SOKOLOW VERSUS THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION (SEPTEMBER 30, 2008):  THE PLO REMAINS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION WAGING A TERROR WAR AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL
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Volume X, Issue # 281, October 28, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PLO ACKNOWLEDGES:  STILL AT WAR WITH ISRAEL

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE PRO-PALESTINIAN BIAS OF FRENCH TELEVISION NEWS COVERAGE:  EXPOSING THE MUHAMMAD AL-DURA HOAX -- PHILIPPE KARSENTY CHALLENGES THE OBJECTIVITY & INTEGRITY OF FRANCE 2
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Volume X, Issue # 273, October 22, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE MUHAMMAD AL-DURA HOAX:  AN INTERVIEW

By the Middle East Quarterly



MODERN ISRAEL -- ITS PAST & FUTURE:  THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & THE USE OF HISTORY -- USING HISTORY TO LEARN HOW TO MOVE ISRAEL FORWARD OVER THE NEXT SIXTY YEARS -- WILL ISRAEL'S PRESENT & FUTURE NATIONAL LEADERS BE UP TO THE TASK?
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Volume X, Issue # 265, October 12, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

LOOKING AHEAD BY LOOKING BACK:
Colin Shindler's A History of Modern Israel:
A Review by Asaf Romirowsky



COUNTERINSURGENCY & CONVENTIONAL WARFARE:  CAN A SOVEREIGN STATE & ITS AGENCIES PREVAIL IN A COUNTERINSURGENCY WAR WAGED AGAINST A NONSTATE ENEMY?  CAN A SOVEREIGN STATE SUCCESSFULLY DEFEND ITSELF & ITS VITAL INTERESTS AGAINST INSURGENCY & TERRORISM?
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Volume X, Issue # 230, September 14, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MUST COUNTERINSURGENCY WARS FAIL?

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



AN ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-SEMITIC, PRO-ARAB HISTORY PROFESSOR & MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ACADEMIC GLEEFULLY PREDICTS THE IMMINENT DEMISE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS A MAJOR WORLD POWER -- JOEL BEININ SHOWCASES THE FLAWS OF MANY COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROGRAMS IN THE U.S.A.
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Volume X, Issue # 226, September 10, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE RETURN OF JOEL BEININ

By Cinnamon Stillwell



ISRAEL & IRAN:  WILL ISRAEL TAKE MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRANIAN FACILITIES REFINING FISSIONABLE MATERIALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS? WHAT WOULD BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH ACTION? A CONSIDERATION OF THE DIFFERENT POSSIBLE SCENARIOS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 203, August 17, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE IRAN SCENARIOS

By Alan Caruba



PRO-PALESTINIAN, PRO-ARAB, ANTI-ISRAELI PROPAGANDA ACTIVITY IN THE U.S.A.: PALESTINIANS & THEIR RADICAL ACTIVIST SYMPATHIZERS IN THE U.S.A. SEEKING POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION OF AMERICAN STUDENTS -- THE "POPULAR PALESTINIAN CONFERENCE 2008" PLANNING TO DEMAND AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULA THAT COVER THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT IN A MANNER THAT IDENTIFIES ISRAEL AS THE AGGRESSOR & OPPRESSOR, THE PALESTINIAN ARABS AS THE PERPETUAL VICTIMS, & THE U.S.A. AS AN ACCOMPLICE IN CRIME -- INVOLVEMENT OF UNIVERSITY MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ACADEMICS IN THE ENDEAVOR TO DEMONIZE ISRAEL & TO PROMOTE & JUSTIFY DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH STATE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 197, August 9, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

"POPULAR PALESTINIAN CONFERENCE" PEDDLES PROPAGANDA

By Cinnamon Stillwell



INVOLVEMENT OF SOCALLED ISRAELI "SCHOLARS" IN UNIVERSITY MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROGRAMS IN THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES:  UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES EMPLOYING ANTI-ISRAEL "SCHOLARS" WHO HAIL FROM ISRAEL, ISRAELI ACADEMICS WHO HAVE BUILT THEIR REPUTATIONS ON ANALYSIS THAT IS NOT ONLY HARSHLY CRITICAL OF ISRAELI POLICY, BUT ALSO OF ISRAEL'S VERY EXISTENCE -- HIRING A FEW ISRAELIS, BUT RETAINING THE RADICAL, ANTI-ISRAEL, ARABIST, ISLAMIST PREJUDICES OF THE MIDDLE EAST STUDIES DEPARTMENTS -- ENSURING THAT STUDENTS ARE TAUGHT AN AHISTORICAL, ONE-SIDED INTERPRETATION OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT -- REPLACING TRUE SCHOLARSHIP WITH POLITICIZED WRITING & TEACHING -- REDEFINING ACADEMIC FREEDOM AS THE LIBERTY TO DISPENSE WITH ACADEMIC STANDARDS
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Volume X, Issue # 191, August 4, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IN ACADEMIA, HIRING TOKEN JEWS

By Asaf Romirowsky



AMERICAN COMMENTARY ON THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT & ITS FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS:  RESISTING EFFORTS TO CENSOR & SILENCE INDEPENDENT U.S. ANALYSTS WHO CRITICIZE POLICY DECISIONS MADE BY THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL -- DEFENDING THE RIGHT OF FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSTS LIVING IN THE U.S.A., BUT NOT ASSOCIATED WITH OR EMPLOYED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, TO PUBLICLY EXPRESS DISAGREEMENT WITH THE POLICIES OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTERS & CABINETS -- REJECTING THE NOTION THAT ONE'S LOCATION, AGE, ETHNICITY, ACADEMIC DEGREES, OR SOME OTHER QUALITY VALIDATES ONE'S VIEWS -- REFUTING THE CONTENTION THAT LIVING IN A COUNTRY NECESSARILY MAKES ONE WISER ABOUT THAT COUNTRY & THE ACTIONS OF ITS GOVERNMENT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 187, July 30, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MAY AN AMERICAN COMMENT ON ISRAEL?

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE SIXTY-YEAR HISTORY OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL:  THE HIGH POINTS & LOW POINTS IN ISRAELI HISTORY -- ACCOUNTING FOR THE LOW POINTS -- PROPOSING TWO CONSULATIONS:  ISRAEL AS A POWERFUL COUNTRY THAT CAN AFFORD TO MAKE MISTAKES -- TERMINATION OF ISRAEL'S OBLIGATION TO PROTECT CHILD-MURDERER SAMIR KUNTAR
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 177, July 21, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SAMIR KUNTAR & THE LAST LAUGH

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



ISRAELI-SYRIAN RELATIONS:  SYRIAN THREATS & ISRAELI MILITARY ACTION -- THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE ATTACK ON SYRIA'S SUSPECTED NUCLEAR FACILITY -- HOW THIS AIR STRIKE CALLED BASHAR AL-ASSAD'S BLUFF & REVEALED HIS REGIME'S STRATEGIC WEAKNESS -- WHAT BASHAR'S COVERT FLIRTATION WITH NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY SUGGESTS -- THE CONTINUING NEGATIVE DYNAMIC BETWEEN SYRIA & ISRAEL -- ACCUMULATING TENSION, MILITARY PREPARATIONS, & FORECASTS OF WAR
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 176, July 20, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AN ISRAELI WATERSHED:  STRIKE ON SYRIA

By Dr. Eyal Zisser



THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE FLAWED ANALYSIS OF JUAN COLE:  EXCUSING THE VIOLENCE & HATRED DIRECTED AT JEWS & THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- CITING & TAKING AT FACE VALUE LEFTIST, ISLAMIST, & ANTI-SEMITIC SOURCES -- EMBRACING & ATTEMPTING TO PEDDLE CONSPIRACY THEORIES DIRECTED AT THE U.S.A. IN GENERAL & THE POLITICAL RIGHT IN PARTICULAR -- CONCLUSIONS CHARACTERIZED BY OVERT BIASES & DERIVED FROM A HIGHLY SELECTIVE READING OF SOURCES -- COMMENTARY REFLECTING AN EAGERNESS TO BELIEVE THE PRESS OF HOSTILE FOREIGN DICTATORSHIPS, RATHER THAN U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ACCOUNTS & REPORTS
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Volume X, Issue # 167, July 9, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

JUAN COLE'S JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL

By Cinnamon Stillwell



THE TRUE MEANING OF THE OF THE ARABIC WORD "HUDNA" & ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN THE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  THE NEED FOR WESTERNERS TO UNDERSTAND THE WORD'S NUANCE & HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT -- ISLAMIC MILITARY HISTORY AS PRECEDENT FOR THE ISLAMISTS' USE OF THE CEASE-FIRE, OR TRUCE, AS A MILITARY TACTIC IN THEIR GLOBAL WAR AGAINST ISRAEL & THE WEST -- THE HUDNA AS A TACTICAL CEASE-FIRE PERMITTING THE AGGRESSOR FORCES TO RETREAT & THEN REGROUP, REARM, & REBUILD THEIR MILITARY INFRASTRUCTURE IN ORDER TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE WHEN THEY CALL OFF THE CEASE-FIRE & ATTACK THE TERRITORY THEY PREVIOUSLY LEFT BEHIND -- THE ARABS' USE OF THE HUDNA IN THEIR CONFLICT WITH THE STATE OF ISRAEL
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 155, June 25, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TACTICAL HUDNA & ISLAMIST INTOLERANCE

By Dr. Denis MacEoin



THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION & ISSUES OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY REGARDING THE STATE OF ISRAEL & THE MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT:  THE DIFFERING APPROACHES OF JOHN MCCAIN & BARAK OBAMA
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Volume X, Issue # 136, June 5, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

OBAMA VERSUS MCCAIN ON THE MIDDLE EAST

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF & WORKS AGENCY & ITS INVOLVEMENT IN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  UNRWA AS FACILITATOR, INSTIGATOR, & PROMOTER OF PALESTINIAN ARAB TERRORISM -- UNRWA AS A MAJOR CAUSE & PERPETUATOR OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, INCITING A WHOLE GENERATION OF PALESTINIANS TO TERRORIST VIOLENCE AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- THE POLITICAL & MILITARY ALLIANCE BETWEEN UNRWA & HAMAS -- HOW TO END THE THREAT:  DISSOLVE UNRWA & TRANSFER ITS FUNCTIONS & FUNDING TO OTHER, LESS POLITICIZED AGENCIES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 127, May 20, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DEFUND UNRWA

By Asaf Romirowsky



FICTIONAL WORKS THAT EXPLORE THE INTERSECTION OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES & INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE:   THREE NOVELS AUTHORED BY DANIEL SILVA -- PRINCE OF FIRE -- THE MESSENGER -- THE SECRET SERVANT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 124, May 16, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES IN FICTION

By Cinnamon Stillwell



ISRAEL, THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT:  SERIOUS LESSONS TO BE DRAWN FROM THIS SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- SERIOUS THREATS TO ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE ON THE NEAR HORIZON -- THE FAILURE OF ISLAM & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- THE SUCCESS OF JUDAISM & CHRISTIANITY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 119, May 11, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

LIVING ON THE EDGE OF DESTRUCTION:
ISRAEL'S SIXTEENTH ANNIVERSITY

By Alan Caruba



THE CURSE UNDER WHICH THE STATE OF ISRAEL LIVES:  THE CONSTANT THREAT OF DESTRUCTION -- ISRAEL'S REMARKABLE PROGRESS OVER THE PAST SIX DECADES HAS NOT LIBERATED IT FROM A MULTI-PRONGED PERIL THAT INCLUDES NEARLY EVERY MEANS IMAGINABLE:  WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, CONVENTIONAL MILITARY ATTACK, TERRORISM, INTERNAL SUBVERSION, ECONOMIC BLOCKADE, DEMOGRAPHIC ASSAULT, & IDEOLOGICAL UNDERMINNING -- THE ERROR OF SEEING THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT AS THE MOTOR FORCE BEHIND THE PROBLEMS CONFRONTING ISRAEL -- THE MORE RATIONAL PERCEPTION:  SEEING ISRAEL'S PLIGHT AS THE RESULT OF ITS LOCATION IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST & THE TOXIC POLITICS OF THAT REGION
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Volume X, Issue # 117, May 8, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL'S PREDICAMENT AT SIXTY:
WORLD'S WORST NEIGHBORHOOD

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE WORK OF THE SOCALLED "NEW HISTORIANS" -- THEIR REVISION & DISTORTION OF ISRAELI HISTORY -- THE FULL STORY:   ISRAELI ACADEMICS & WESTERN REVISIONISTS EXAMINING ISRAEL'S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE FROM AN ARAB PERSPECTIVE IN WHICH JEWS WERE THE AGGRESSORS & ARABS WERE THE VICTIMS -- ILAN PAPPE'S PROMOTING REVISIONIST ARGUMENTS THAT PLACE EXCLUSIVE BLAME ON EARLY ZIONISTS FOR VICTIMIZING ARABS & DESTROYING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEACE & RECONCILIATION -- PAPPE'S CLAIM THAT THE ZIONISTS MADE SPECIAL PREPARATIONS FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING OF ARABS FROM PALESTINE -- MANIPULATING EVIDENCE TO FIT AN IMPLAUSIBLE THESIS -- IGNORING THE REALITIES OF THE TIME -- DISREGARD FOR THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE HISTORIAN -- INDIFFERENCE TO STANDARDS OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 108, April 23, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ILAN PAPPE'S THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE:
A BOOK REVIEW

By Seth J. Frantzman



THE CONFLICT IN LEBANON:  IRAN, SYRIA, & HEZBOLLAH VERSUS THE WEST -- LEBANON AS A KEY BATTLEGROUND BETWEEN THE WEST AS A WHOLE & THE FORCES THAT SEEK TO DRAG THE MIDDLE EAST DOWN INTO FANATICISM, TYRANNY, & BARBARISM -- LEBANON AS THE FOCAL POINT OF THE ANTI-WESTERN STRATEGY OF IRAN & ITS ALLIES, SYRIA & HEZBOLLAH -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF IRANIAN POLITICS THAT IS BEING PLAYED OUT IN LEBANON & GAZA -- IRAN'S PLAN TO CO-OPT ARAB NATIONALISM, HAVE AN ACTIVE WAR WITH ISRAEL, BE VICTORIOUS IN THAT WAR, & SEIZE LEADERSHIP OF THE MUSLIM WORLD FROM THE SUNNIS & ARABS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 92, April 9, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHAT'S AT STAKE FOR THE WEST IN LEBANON?
A BRIEFING BY DR. DAVID WURMSER

Summary Account by Mimi Stillman



THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT & THE LITERATURE OF ZIONISM:  THE ORIGINS & USES OF THE PHRASE DESCRIBING PALESTINE AS "A LAND WITHOUT A PEOPLE FOR A PEOPLE WITHOUT A LAND" -- THE ANTI-ZIONISTS' ATTACK ON THE PHRASE -- WAS THE PHRASE REALLY A ZIONIST SLOGAN?  WAS PALESTINE REALLY A LAND WITHOUT A PEOPLE?  JEWISH NATIONALISM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HISTORY & CULTURE OF THE WEST DURING THE NINETEENTH & EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES
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Volume X, Issue # 90, April 7, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

"A LAND WITHOUT A PEOPLE FOR A PEOPLE WITHOUT A LAND"

By Diana Muir



THE STATE OF ISRAEL & PALESTINIAN ARAB HISTORIOGRAPHY:  PALESTINIAN PERCEPTION OF THE JEWISH STATE AS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL -- PALESTINIAN PERCEPTIONS, THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE PROBLEM, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE PALESTINIANS, INSTEAD OF SEARCHING FOR PATHS TO PEACE, ARE SEARCHING FOR MEANS TO WAGE WAR AGAINST & DESTROY THE STATE OF ISRAEL
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 88, April 4, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PALESTINIANS CONTINUE TO THINK IT'S 1948

By Asaf Romirowsky



PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM & MILITANT ISLAM:  THE EXTENT TO WHICH PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM NOW INTERTWINES WITH ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY -- FATAH'S FUSION OF PALESTINIAN NATIONAL & ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS IN ORDER TO USE RADICAL ISLAM AS AN INSTRUMENT OF MOBILIZATION -- THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE FOR PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD & THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 78, March 21, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

FATAH'S EMBRACES OF ISLAMISM

By Ido Zelkovitch



THE FAULTY ANALYSIS OF POLITICALLY-BIASED AMERICAN PROFESSORS OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES:  ANTI-ISRAELI PROFESSORS' OCCUPATION WITH LAMBASTING ISRAEL'S DEFENSE POLICIES & THEIR CONSEQUENT FAILURE TO IDENTIFY AN APPROACHING INTERNECINE PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- HOW THE MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROFESSORS MISINFORM & MISLEAD FOREIGN POLICY DECISION-MAKERS IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 72, March 12, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PROFESSORS HAMMER ISRAEL & FAIL
TO PREDICT PALESTINIAN WAR

By Jonathan Schanzer



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- A DEBATE:  THE ISRAELI POSITION VERSUS THE PALESTINIAN ARAB POSITION -- A DEBATE BETWEEN DAVID MEIR-LEVY & HATEM BAZIAN -- A DEBATE BETWEEN AN ISRAELI ACADEMIC & A PALESTINIAN RADICAL PROPAGANDIST
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 69, March 10, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT DEBATE

By Cinnamon Stillwell



ISLAM, ISLAMIC STATES, ISLAMISM, & THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE:   ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE IN THE CONTEXT OF STRATEGIES WEAK STATES & TERRORIST GROUPS ADOPT TO CONFRONT STRONGER MILITARY POWERS -- THE ISLAMIST WAY OF WAR & THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS -- RELIGIOUS FANATICISM, SUICIDAL IDEOLOGY, & MORAL INSPIRATION FOR THE STRATEGY OF TERRORISM -- PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATION & THE CALL TO JIHAD -- EXPLOITATION OF WESTERN MORAL CODES TO CREATE A TACTICAL ADVANTAGE FOR THE ISLAMIST ENEMY -- HOW TO BALANCE WESTERN MILITARY NEEDS, INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW, & THE REALITY OF FACING AN ENEMY WHOSE TACTICS ARE NOT RESTRAINED BY ACCEPTED CONVENTIONS -- THE ABSOLUTE NEED FOR THE WEST TO WIN THE IDEOLOGICAL WAR AS WELL AS THE MILITARY ONE
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Volume X, Issue # 65, March 3, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASYMMETRY OF ISLAMIST WARFARE

By Irwin J. Mansdorf & Mordechai Kedar



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN "PEACE PROCESS"?  FAILURE OF GAZA & THE WEST BANK TO DEVELOP INTO A VIABLE PALESTINIAN POLITICAL & ECONOMIC ENTITY -- THE ROLE OF YASSER ARAFAT IN CREATING THE CURRENT MESS IN PALESTINIAN SOCIETY -- THE ROLE OF MAHMOUD ABBAS -- THE ROLE OF HAMAS -- VICTIMHOOD & THE FAILURE TO ACHIEVE A TWO-STATE SOLUTION TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
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Volume X, Issue # 50, February 22, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

A PATHETIC "PEACE PROCESS"

By Amos N. Guiora & Asaf Romirowsky



U.S. & WESTERN POLICY TOWARD GAZA, EGYPT, & ISRAEL:  TRANSFERRING GAZA TO EGYPTIAN JURISDICTION & RESPONSIBILITY -- HOW CAN IT BE DONE?
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Volume X, Issue # 36, February 8, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HOW TO TURN GAZA OVER TO EGYPT

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



HIGH TIME FOR A MAJOR CHANGE IN THE WEST'S POLICY TOWARD GAZA:  THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN STATES TO DECLARE THE EXPERIMENT IN GAZAN SELF-RULE A FAILURE, WITHDRAW SUPPORT FOR ANY POLITICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE GAZA STRIP & THE PALESTINIAN ARAB WEST BANK, & CONTRIVE THE RETURN OF GAZA TO EGYPT, PRESSURING THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT TO ANNEX, TIGHTLY CONTROL, & TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR GAZA
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Volume X, Issue # 27, January 29, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

GIVE GAZA TO EGYPT

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION & THE PROBLEM OF ARRIVING AT A FAIR & BALANCED DISCUSSION RELATING TO MIDDLE EAST STUDIES:  ARAB DONORS CREATING BASTIONS OF NONCRITICAL, PRO-ISLAMIC "SCHOLARSHIP" INSIDE U.S. UNIVERSITIES -- SAUDI ARABIA & OTHER ARAB NATIONS FUNDING AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ISLAMIC STUDIES PROGRAMS WHICH ENDEAVOR TO INDOCTRINATE STUDENTS IN ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY, PROVIDE JUSTIFICATION FOR ISLAMIST TERRORISM & JIHADISM, & DISSEMINATE ANTI-SEMITIC, ANTI-ISRAELI, PRO-PALESTINIAN PROPAGANDA
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 20, January 18, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHAT INFLUENCE DOES SAUDI MONEY BUY?

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, THE PALESTINIAN RIGHT OF RETURN, & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  BUSH ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT FOR THE CONCEPT OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS' "RIGHT OF RETURN" TO THE FORMER BRITISH MANDATE OF PALESTINE, THAT IS, THE BELIEF THAT PALESTINIAN REFUGEES & THEIR DESCENDANTS HAVE A RIGHT TO RETURN TO THE HOMES THEIR FAMILIES POSSESSED & LEFT PRIOR TO, DURING, OR DUE TO THE 1948 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR -- THE PALESTINIAN "RIGHT OF RETURN" PERCEIVED BY THE ISRAELIS AS A CODE PHRASE TO OVERWHELM ISRAEL DEMOGRAPHICALLY, THEREBY UNDOING ZIONISM & THE JEWISH STATE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 13, January 14, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BUSH PROMOTES A PALESTINIAN "RIGHT OF RETURN"

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  ENSURING ISRAEL'S SURVIVAL AS A JEWISH SOCIETY & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC NATION-STATE IN A HOSTILE REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT -- THE U.S.A. ASSISTING ISRAEL IN ITS MAINTENANCE OF QUALITATIVE MILITARY SUPERIORITY OVER ANY POSSIBLE COALITION OF ARAB & OTHER ISLAMIC STATES IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN & PERSIAN GULF REGION -- THE IRANIAN THREAT, THE EMERGING NEW STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE NEED FOR A CLEARER DEFINITION OF "QUALITATIVE MILITARY EDGE" & MUTUAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE U.S. & ISRAELI GOVERNMENTS REGARDING HOW ISRAEL'S QUANTITATIVE MILITARY EDGE CAN & SHOULD BE MAINTAINED
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume X, Issue # 10, January 11, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AUGMENTING ISRAEL'S QUALITATIVE MILITARY EDGE

By William Wunderle & Andre Briere



PALESTINIANS VERSUS THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY:  THE NUMEROUS PALESTINIAN ARABS CURRENTLY LIVING INSIDE THE BORDERS OF ISRAEL WHO PREFER ISRAELI GOVERNANCE TO POLITICAL CONTROL & DOMINATION BY THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY -- PALESTINIANS WHO WANT TO KEEP OR GAIN ISRAELI CITIZENSHIP & WOULD RESIST ANY ATTEMPT TO TRANFER JURISDICTION OVER THEM FROM THE STATE OF ISRAEL TO THE CORRUPT, VIOLENT, AND UNSTABLE REGIME OF MAHMOUD ABBAS, AL-FATAH, & HAMAS -- THE ADVANTAGES & BENEFITS OF ISRAELI GOVERNANCE PERCEIVED BY MANY PALESTINIANS:  THE RULE OF LAW, EFFECTIVE MAINTENANCE OF LAW & ORDER, FAIR & REASONABLE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE UNDER LAW, OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE IN PEACE & RAISE ONE'S CHILDREN UNDER ORDERLY CONDITIONS, GOOD SCHOOLS, & HEALTH INSURANCE
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Volume X, Issue # 1, January 1, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PALESTINIANS WHO PREFER ISRAEL

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE PALESTINIAN ECONOMY & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  THE EFFECTS & CONSEQUENCES OF WESTERN FINANCIAL AID TO THE PALESTINIANS -- CORRUPTION & DISTORTION OF THE PALESTINIAN ECONOMY -- RUINING THE ECONOMY BY SMOTHERING IT UNDER WELL-INTENTIONED BUT MISGUIDED DONATIONS -- HOW A FAILED PALESTINIAN ECONOMY WILL ULTIMATELY AFFECT PALESTINIAN TERRORISM & DETERMINATION TO DESTROY THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- EXPLAINING PALESTINIAN EXTREMISM & VIOLENCE: THE HARDSHIP MODEL VERSUS THE EXHILARATION MODEL
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 245, December 28, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PALESTINIAN ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



DANIEL LEVY'S DISTORTED CAUSE-&-EFFECT ANALYSIS OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT: LEVY'S TWISTED ACCOUNTS OF THE FIRST & SECOND INTIFADAS -- LEVY'S MOTIVE:  HIS VERSION OF THE HISTORY OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE THAT PALESTINIAN TERRORISM HAS ALWAYS ARISEN IN RESPONSE TO ISRAELI PROVOCATIONS & THAT ISRAEL HAS NEVER BEEN GENUINELY INTERESTED IN PEACE WITH ITS MIDDLE EASTERN NEIGHBORS
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Volume IX, Issue # 236, December 17, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

REWRITING HISTORY:  FACTCHECKING LEVY

By Noah Pollak



THE TRIBAL & CULTURAL ROOTS OF CONFLICT IN THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST: HOW SEVENTH-CENTURY ARAB TRIBAL CULTURE HAS INFLUENCED ISLAM & ITS ADHERENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS NON-MUSLIMS -- FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ARABS' NEARLY ABSOLUTE REJECTION OF ISRAEL -- THE SPECIAL IMPORTANCE OF HONOR & BALANCED OPPOSITION -- THE PROPENSITY OF ARAB STATES & IRAN TO DICTATORSHIP -- RULERS, PEASANTS, & NOMADS
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Volume IX, Issue # 232, December 10, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE MIDDLE EAST'S TRIBAL DNA

By Dr. Philip Carl Salzman



THE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF & WORKS AGENCY & ITS IMPACT UPON THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT:  HOW & WHY UNRWA HELPS PERPETUATE THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE ISSUE & IS THEREFORE A CENTRAL FACTOR HELPING TO PREVENT RESOLUTION OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- UNRWA'S WELL-DOCUMENTED TERRORIST TIES -- UNRWA AS A DYSFUNCTIONAL BUREAUCRACY WITH A PRO-ARAB, ANTI-ISRAELI BIAS -- WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT THE PROBLEM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 226, December 3, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HOW UNRWA CREATES DEPENDENCY

By Asaf Romirowsky & Jonathan Spyer



PROPOSING THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM:  POLITICALLY WEAK, UNPOPULAR, & DESPERATE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTERS SEEKING TO ACHIEVE PEACE THROUGH THE APPEASEMENT OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS -- REWARDING HAMAS & OTHER ISLAMIC TERRORIST GROUPS FOR THE TERROR WAR THEY ARE WAGING AGAINST ISRAEL -- ENDANGERING ISRAELI NATIONAL SECURITY -- THE ROAD TO "PEACE" THAT IS REALLY THE ROAD TO A GREATER WAR
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 217, November 17, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AUCTIONING JERUSALEM FORETELLS
ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER'S DEMISE

By Jonathan Schanzer & Asaf Romirowsky



MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY & POLITICS:  AN EPISODE IN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE PALESTINIAN TERRORIST SKYJACKINGS & HOSTAGE TAKING OF SEPTEMBER, 1970, & THE RESULTING DIPLOMATIC CRISIS & JORDANIAN MILITARY ACTION -- HOW ISRAEL BECAME A PRIME BENEFICIARY OF THE WHOLE EPISODE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 199, Oct. 24, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TERROR IN BLACK SEPTEMBER:  AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT

By David Raab



HISTORY OF THE THIRD WORLD WAR:  INVOLVEMENT OF THE LATE U.S.S.R. IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT DURING THE COLD WAR ERA -- SOVIET EXPLOITATION OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT TO ADVANTAGE IN THE GLOBAL WAR WAGED BY THE SOVIET UNION & ITS ALLIES AGAINST THE NON-COMMUNIST WORLD -- RECENT RESEARCH FINDINGS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 198, October 24, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE SOVIET MILITARY ROLE IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
RESEARCH UPDATE I

By Isabella Ginor & Gideon Remez



THE GROWING ANTI-SEMITISM BEING EXPOUNDED IN AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION:   INDOCTRINATION OF STUDENTS IN ANTI-SEMITISM (DISGUISED AS ANTI-ZIONISM) IN UNIVERSITY CLASSROOMS & ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES -- THE DEMORALIZING CHALLENGE WHICH CONFRONTS PRO-ISRAEL STUDENTS DEFENDING ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST AS A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC JEWISH STATE, AS WELL AS EXPRESSING CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL VIEWS -- THE DIRE NEED FOR A BALANCED REPRESENTATION OF ISRAEL & THE MIDDLE EAST IN AMERICA'S EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 173, Sep. 18, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

A NEW ANTI-SEMITISM TAKES ROOT ON CAMPUS

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE BUSH PRESIDENCY & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIPLOMACY & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- HOW A MAJOR WORLD POWER'S BROKEN PROMISES IMPACT UPON INTERNATIONAL CRISES -- THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF DETERIORATING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & ONCE-STAUNCH ALLIES SUCH AS TURKEY, ISRAEL, TAIWAN, JAPAN, & SOUTH KOREA -- HOW WELL HAS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION LIVED UP TO ITS COMMITMENT TO PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM & STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN ISLAMIC NORTH AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST?
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Volume IX, Issue # 144, July 31, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PRESIDENT BUSH'S BROKEN PROMISES

By Dr Michael Rubin



THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST, POLITICIZED HISTORY, & THE ANCIENT WORLD: MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURES & STATES RETROACTIVELY CLAIMING ROOTS TO ANCIENT TRIBES & EMPIRES IN ORDER TO LEGITIMIZE MODERN NATIONALISM -- THE PALESTINIAN ARABS' CLAIM OF DESCENT FROM THE ANCIENT CANAANITE TRIBE OF THE JEBUSITES -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CLAIMED PALESTINIAN-JEBUSITE LINK -- THE IMPACT ON INTERNATIONAL POLITICS & DIPLOMACY RELATING TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- THE RELIGIOUS IMPLICATIONS FOR JEWS & EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 138, July 20, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PALESTINIANS, JEBUSITES, & EVANGELICALS

By David Wenkel



THE UNITED NATIONS, THE PALESTINIAN AGENDA, & ISLAMIC TERRORISM:  THE UN AS A PROPAGANDA MACHINE FOR DELITIMIZATION OF ISRAEL & FOR PROMOTION & PERPETUATION OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY -- UNRWA AS AN APPARATUS THROUGH WHICH THE U.S.A. & THE WEST HELP FUND THE ACTIVITIES OF THEIR ENEMIES IN THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 118, June 22, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DUBIOUS REFUGEE RELIEF

By Nicole Brackman & Asaf Romirowsky



THE FORMER SOVIET UNION & THE OUTBREAK OF THE SIX-DAY WAR OF 1967:  THE ROLE OF THE U.S.S.R. IN EXACERBATING THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE SIX-DAY WAR AS A FOOTNOTE IN THE HISTORY OF SOVIET DECEPTION, TRICKERY, CONNIVANCE, & TREACHERY DURING THE COLD WAR
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 116, June 20, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE U.S.S.R. AS THE CULPRIT IN THE SIX-DAY WAR:
A Report on the Briefing of Isabella Ginor & Gideon Remez

By Bryan Schwartzman



THE MASS IGNORANCE, BACKWARDNESS, CORRUPTION, & OPPRESSION OF THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  ISLAM AS THE SOURCE OF TERRORISM & WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- ISLAM'S CONTINUING RESISTANCE TO & REJECTION OF ANYTHING THAT SMACKS OF MODERN CIVILIZED BEHAVIOR -- THE ONLY PEACE THAT ISLAM OFFERS THE WORLD:   COMPLETE SURRENDER & SUBORDINATION TO ISLAMIC DOMINATION, OR THE PEACE OF THE GRAVE -- THE POPULATION OF THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST HELD IN THE GRIP OF A "RELIGION" SPREAD BY THE SWORD & MAINTAINED BY INSURING THAT ENLIGHTENMENT OF ANY KIND IS FEARED & DESTROYED -- THE NEED FOR AMERICA & THE WEST TO EFFECTIVELY COMBAT THE ISLAMIST TERRORISM THAT WOULD BRING TO US A DARK AGE RULED BY ISLAM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 114, June 18, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISLAM:  THE POWER OF "NO"

By Alan Caruba



THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF THE PALESTINIANS' CURRENT CONDITION OF POVERTY, MISERY, & STATELESSNESS:   PALESTINIAN BEHAVIOR BEFORE & AFTER 1948 -- WHAT IS ESSENTIAL TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE'S ACQUIRING THE ABILITY TO HELP THEMSELVES IMPROVE THEIR PRESENT CONDITION:  THEIR TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR COLLECTIVE DESTINY
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Volume IX, Issue # 99, May 29, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE REAL PALESTINIAN "CATASTROPHE"

By Cameron S. Brown & Asaf Romirowsky



ISRAEL, HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON, SYRIA, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  THE SECOND LEBANON WAR AS A FALTERING, INDECISIVE WAR RESULTING FROM ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC FOLLIES & OPERATIONAL DEFICIENCES -- THE ISRAELI POLITICAL & MILITARY LEADERSHIP'S LACK OF A CLEAR CONCEPT OF WHAT VICTORY OVER HEZBOLLAH ENTAILED -- HOW ISRAEL SQUANDERED AN OPPORTUNITY TO SETTLE REGIONAL SCORES & MAINTAIN UNQUESTIONED ISRAELI DETERRENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE STRENGTHS & ADVANTAGES UPON WHICH ISRAEL CAN BUILD & PREPARE TO ATTAIN A CLEAR & DECISIVE VICTORY IN THE NEXT ROUND WITH HEZBOLLAH & THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME
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Volume IX, Issue # 76, April 30, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HOW ISRAEL BUNGLED THE SECOND LEBANON WAR

By Dr. Efraim Inbar



THE CONDITION NECESSARY FOR PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE BETWEEN PALESTINIAN ARABS & ISRAELI JEWS:  THAT PALESTINIAN SOCIETY EXPERIENCE A BREAKTHROUGH IN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC THOUGHT & VALUES, A BREAKTHROUGH ACCEPTING THE PERMANENT EXISTENCE OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT HONEST RELATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE PALESTINIANS ARE NORMAL & NATURAL, & ALLOWING FOR THE GROWTH OF AN ECONOMICALLY PROSPEROUS & POLITICALLY INFLUENTIAL PALESTINIAN MIDDLE CLASS
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Volume IX, Issue # 68, April 17, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

By Asaf Romirowsky



ACADEMIC FREEDOM VERSUS PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, FREEDOM OF THOUGHT & EXPRESSION, & ADHERENCE TO WESTERN VALUES:  ACADEMIC FREEDOM AS A MEANS BY WHICH RADICAL ACTIVIST, DISLOYAL PROFESSORS & STUDENTS SHIELD THEMSELVES FROM OVERSIGHT, ACCOUNTABILITY, & THE DEMANDS OF GENUINE SCHOLARSHIP -- THE REAL MEANING OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM, AS CURRENTLY APPLIED:  FREEDOM FOR PROFESSORS TO POLITICALLY INDOCTRINATE THEIR STUDENTS -- FREEDOM FOR ACADEMICS TO CURTAIL SPEECH THAT THEY FIND TO BE UNPLEASANT & UNACCEPTABLE -- FREEDOM FOR RADICAL CAMPUS GROUPS TO ENGAGE IN PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS, RIOTING, & OTHER DISRUPTIVE ACTIVITIES -- FREEDOM TO CRITIQUE DIRECTED MOSTLY AGAINST ISRAEL, AMERICA, & EFFORTS TO DEFEND WESTERN CIVILIZATION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 33, February 15, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SCHOLAR ACTIVISM

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE ISLAMIST WAR TO CONQUER & DESTROY THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- AN ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT FOR THE WORLD'S FUTURE PEACE & SECURITY:  THAT AMERICA, ISRAEL, & THE WEST CONQUER & ANNIHILATE THE EVIL & DEADLY FORCES OF ISLAMIC BARBARISM -- IF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH DECIDES TO REDUCE LARGE PORTIONS OF BAGHDAD TO RUBBLE & OBLITERATE BIG CHUNKS OF IRAN, HISTORY WILL LIKELY SAY HE WAS RIGHT TO DO SO
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 28, February 11, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE TROUBLE WITH PEACE

By Alan Caruba



THE MIDDLE EAST, HAMAS, TERRORISM, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  HAMAS' OPERATION OF A TYRANNICAL DICTATORSHIP OVER THE PALESTINIANS IN GAZA & THE WEST BANK -- HAMAS' CONTINUING ACTS OF TERROR AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL & ENDORSEMENT OF MISSILE STRIKES ON ISRAELI CIVILIANS -- HOW THEIR FUNDING & SUPPORT OF HAMAS & OTHER TERRORIST GROUPS HAS REAPED HUGE DIVIDENDS FOR IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, & OTHER MUSLIM STATES OF THE MIDDLE EAST -- HOW WESTERN EQUIVOCATION, VACILLATION, & LACK OF RESOLVE CONTRIBUTE TO TERRORISM & DICTATORSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S ABANDONMENT OF ITS PROMOTION OF THE RULE OF LAW, CONSTITUTIONALISM, FREE & UNFETTERED ELECTIONS, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, & HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 27, February 8, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HAMAS' INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY WORKS

By Dr. Michael Rubin



FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE ARABS & THE JEWS:  A POLICY THAT IS PRO-ARAB & ANTI-ISRAELI -- FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY AT ODDS WITH AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE CHARACTER & LONG HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM IN FRANCE -- THE PRO-MUSLIM ATTITUDES & VIEWS OF THE FRENCH DIPLOMATIC & POLITICAL ELITES -- WHY THE FRENCH, IN INTERNATIONAL CRISES THROUGHOUT THE LAST THREE OR FOUR DECADES, HAVE OBSTRUCTED EVERY WESTERN INITIATIVE & POLICY & THEREBY FACILITATED VIOLENCE, TERRORISM, & WAR -- WHY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED SADDAM HUSSEIN IN IRAQ & YASIR ARAFAT IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- THE ROLE OF FRANCE IN BRINGING ABOUT THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN IRAN -- THE FRENCH PENCHANT FOR HARBORING ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS & APPEASING GENOCIDAL ISLAMIC STATES
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Volume IX, Issue # 19, January 29, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BETRAYAL -- FRANCE, THE ARABS, & THE JEWS:
A BRIEFING BY DAVID PRICE-JONES:
SUMMARY ACCOUNT

By Mimi Stillman



FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT JAMES EARL CARTER & HIS PROPAGANDA WAR AGAINST ISRAEL, ISRAELI POLITICIANS, & ISRAEL'S SUPPORTERS:  CARTER'S FLAWED ANALYSIS OF MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- ALLOWING POLITICAL BIAS & IDEOLOGY TO GET IN THE WAY OF FACTS -- MANIPULATION OF FACTS, DISTORTIONS, & FALSEHOODS TO SUPPORT PRE-CONCEIVED NOTIONS & ARRIVING AT DESIRED CONCLUSIONS -- INVENTING HISTORY & EXCUSING SUICIDE BOMBINGS & OTHER ACTS OF ARAB TERRORISM -- DEMONSTRATING DECEITFULNESS, CRASS CONCEIT, POMPOSITY, DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR, MEAN-SPIRITEDNESS, PSYCHOTIC ANIMOSITY TOWARD ISRAELIS & AMERICAN JEWS, & A STRONG BIAS IN FAVOR OF THE ARAB SIDE IN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT
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Volume IX, Issue # 16, January 25, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MY PROBLEM WITH JIMMY CARTER'S BOOK

By Dr. Kenneth W. Stein



ISRAELI STRATEGIC MILITARY POLICY:  UPON WHICH POLICY SHOULD ISRAEL RELY IN ITS ENDEAVOR TO ENSURE ITS OWN DEFENSE & SECURITY & END OR SIGNIFICANTLY MITIGATE THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, A POLICY OF STRATEGIC DETERRRENCE, OR ONE OF STRATEGIC RESTRAINT?  PAST EXPERIENCE:  SUCCESS OF ISRAEL'S POLICY OF MILITARILY RESPONDING WITH DISPROPORTIONATE FORCE TO CROSS-BORDER TERRORIST ATTACKS ON ISRAEL -- FAILURE OF THE POLICY OF STRATEGIC RESTRAINT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 9, January 16, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE END OF ISRAELI MILITARY RESTRAINT:
OUT WITH THE NEW, IN WITH THE OLD

By Or Honig



ISRAEL, ISRAELI JEWS, & ISRAELI ARABS:  THE STATE OF ISRAEL DOOMED BY DEMOGRAPHICS -- THE ARGUMENT THAT THE RAPIDLY GROWING MUSLIM ARAB POPULATION WITHIN THE BORDERS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL MAKES VERY UNLIKELY THE LONGTERM SURVIVAL OF THE JEWISH STATE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 6, January 7, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHO IS AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN?

By Alan Caruba



THE STATE OF ISRAEL, ISRAELI ARABS, & THE THREAT OF INTERNAL SUBVERSION & TREASON:  LINKAGE & COLLABORATION BETWEEN PALESTINIAN ARABS & ISRAELI ARABS --WHAT MUST BE DONE TO ENSURE THE ISRAELI ARABS' LOYALTY TO THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT AS AN IMPORTANT DIMENSION OF THE GLOBAL WAR BETWEEN WESTERN CIVILIZATION & THE FORCES OF MILITANT ISLAM -- ISRAEL'S MAIN PROBLEM IN ADOPTING & IMPLEMENTING A CONSISTENT STRATEGIC DEFENSE POLICY IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  DEFECTS IN THE ISRAELI POLITICAL SYSTEM
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Volume VIII, Issue # 249, December 20, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MY VISION FOR ISRAEL -- A BRIEFING BY AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN:
Israel's Lieberman Calls for Tougher Stance on Israeli Arabs

By Ira Stoll



ARAB POLITICS, THE ARAB MENTALITY, & THE ARAB WORLD:  ARAB NATIONALISTS, THE ISLAMIST REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT, & THE PROBLEMS FACING THE ARAB WORLD -- HOW THE COMPETING IDEOLOGIES OF ARAB NATIONALISM & RADICAL ISLAMISM REINFORCE THE INTELLECTUAL SYSTEM & WORLDVIEW THAT LOCKS THE ARAB WORLD INTO THE VERY PROBLEMS WHICH BOTH IDEOLOGICAL MOVEMENTS PURPORT TO REMEDY -- WHY THE ARABS WILL NEVER LEARN -- WHY THE ARABS ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT PAST MISTAKES & CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE MILITARY DEFEAT, WASTED RESOURCES, TYRANNICAL DICTATORSHIP, & SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKWARDNESS
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Volume VIII, Issue # 241, Dec. 11, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ARAB POLITICS:  BACK TO FUTILITY

By Dr. Barry Rubin



MIDDLE EAST POLITICS, ARABS, & THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT CONTINUES, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO POSSIBILITY OF PEACE OBTAINED THROUGH NEGOTIATION & COMPROMISE, DESPITE THE FANTASIES OF JAMES EARL CARTER -- THE ARABS WILL PERSIST IN WAGING THEIR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL, UNLESS & UNTIL THE ARABS ACHIEVE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL OR THE ARABS ARE SUBJECT TO A DECISIVE MILITARY DEFEAT RENDERING THEM, OVER THE LONGTERM, UNABLE TO CONTINUE RESISTING THE EXISTENCE & OPERATION OF THE JEWISH STATE -- ISRAEL'S CHOICE:  SUBMISSION TO AN ISLAMIC HOLOCAUST, ABANDONMENT OF ISRAEL & EMIGRATION, OR SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION OF A THOROUGHGOING WAR OF EXTINCTION AGAINST ISRAEL'S ENEMIES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 237, December 6, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

JIMMY CARTER'S PALESTINIAN FANTASY:
UN RESOLUTION NUMBER 242

By Asaf Romirowsky



PA HATE EDUCATION:  THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY & ITS POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION OF PALESTINIANS -- THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN WHAT THE PA SAYS IN ENGLISH TO THE WESTERN WORLD & WHAT IT SAYS IN ARABIC TO PALESTINIANS, ESPECIALLY TO PALESTINIAN YOUTH -- PREACHING PEACE IN ENGLISH & INCITING WAR IN ARABIC -- TEACHING PALESTINIAN CHILDREN TO HATE JEWS & WESTERNERS & TO GROW UP TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ISLAMIC TERROR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL, THE U.S.A., & THE WEST -- THE PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS OF PA POLITICAL PROPAGANDA & INDOCTRINATION: ANTI-WESTERNISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, DENIAL OF ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST, ISLAMIC JIHAD, SUICIDE BOMBING, & MARTYRDOM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 236, December 6, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MARCUS DISCUSSES HATE EDUCATION:
The Palestinian Authority's Double Game -- Preach Peace & Incite War
Itawar Marcus' Briefing to the Middle East Forum

By Joseph Puder



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION POLICY:  THE TOTAL WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST ISRAEL BY MILITANT ISLAM & THE LATTER'S DETERMINATION TO PERPETRATE A HOLOCAUST AGAINST ALL JEWS RESIDING IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- WHY ALL ISRAELI JEWS SHOULD EMIGRATE FROM THE SOCALLED "HOLY LAND" & SEEK RELOCATION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- WHY THE U.S.A. SHOULD OFFER ALL OF ISRAEL'S JEWS PASSAGE TO AMERICA, MAKE THEM FEEL WELCOME HERE, & PUT THEM ON THE FAST TRACK TO U.S. CITIZENSHIP
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 226, November 28, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

LET'S IMPORT ISRAELIS BEFORE THERE AREN'T ANY!

By Alan Caruba



THE UNITED NATIONS:  THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION'S TOTAL DEPRAVITY & COMPLETE LACK OF EVEN-HANDEDNESS IN DEALING WITH INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS --THE UN'S PROCLIVITY TO INSTIGATE INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS, RATHER THAN PREVENT THEM -- THE UN'S MASSIVE & CONTINUING BIAS AGAINST ISRAEL, THE U.S.A., & THE WEST & IN FAVOR OF ARAB AGGRESSION, ISLAMIST TERRORISM, & THE GLOBAL JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE UN AS A MAJOR REPOSITORY & PROLIFERATOR OF ANTI-SEMITISM -- THE FRAUDULENT, SCANDALOUS, & CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR OF MANY UN DELEGATES, HIDING BEHIND THE STATUS OF DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY -- THE NEED FOR THE UN TO CHANGE ITS MANDATE & BEGIN FUNCTIONING AS AN ORGANIZATION WITH A RUDIMENTARY SENSE OF RIGHT & WRONG
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 181, September 22, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHO & WHAT DOES THE UN REPRESENT?

By Asaf Romirowsky



AL-MANAR:  MEDIA ORGAN OF ISLAMISM & JIHADISM -- PROPAGANDA & INCITEMENT ARM OF HEZBOLLAH WAGING PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST ISRAEL & SEEKING TO RALLY HEZBOLLAH'S ISLAMIST SUPPORTERS INSIDE LEBANON & THROUGHOUT THE MUSLIM WORLD -- OFFICIAL MOUTHPIECE OF AN ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL -- A LEGITIMATE TARGET OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES
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Volume VIII, Issue # 155, August 18, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AL-MANAR:  BEACON OF HATE

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE LATEST ISRAELI "CEASE FIRE" IN THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT:  THE "CEASE FIRE" CONSIDERED IN THE BROADER CONTEXTS OF ISLAMIC HISTORY, THE MODERN RESURGENCE OF MILITANT ISLAM, & THE LONGTERM STRATEGY OF THE ISLAMISTS IN THE GLOBAL JIHAD THEY ARE WAGING AGAINST ISRAEL, THE U.S.A., & THE WEST -- WESTERN LEADERS' MISPERCEPTIONS & DELUSIONS THAT ARE VERY LIKELY TO CAUSE THE EVENTUAL DEFEAT & DESTRUCTION OF THE WEST IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- THE ONLY OPTIONS FOR THOSE NATIONS THAT COMPRISE WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  UNITE, CONFRONT, DEFEAT, & TOTALLY DESTROY THE FORCES OF ISLAMISM, OR FACE THE DECLINE, FALL, & EVENTUAL ERADICATION OF THE WEST & ITS CULTURE, INCLUDING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE & BASIC JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES & BELIEFS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 154, August 16, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISLAMISM & THE MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT:
IRAN'S STRATEGY RELIES ON WESTERN COWARDICE

By Christopher G. Adamo



LEBANON, ISRAEL, ISLAMIST TERRORISM, & WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & MIDDLE EASTERN TERRORISM IN THE BROADER CONTEXT OF THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST ISRAEL, AMERICA, & THE WEST -- THE ROLE OF IRAN'S ISLAMIST REGIME IN THE GLOBAL CONFLICT -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES, THROUGH COVERT COUNTERTERRORIST POLITICAL ACTION AS WELL AS OVERT MILITARY ACTION, TO BRING ABOUT THE DEFEAT & TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THEIR DEADLY ENEMIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 153, August 13, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

LEBANON:  THE IMAGINARY NATION

By Alan Caruba



UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR: HOW THE U.S.A. SHOULD FIGHT THE WAR ON TERRORISM & DEFEND ITSELD IN THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST -- HIGH TIME FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO REVOKE THE BAN ON ASSASSINATING TERRORIST LEADERS, SPONSORS OF TERRORISM, & OTHER DEADLY ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION
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Volume VIII, Issue # 152, August 12, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AN ARROW IN OUR QUIVER:
Why the United States Government
Should Consider Assassination

By Dr. Michael Rubin



THE KINGDOM OF JORDAN, THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  WHAT ROLE DID JORDAN PLAY IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB PEACE PROCESS? WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE JORDANIAN PEACE INITIATIVE OF 1960?  AS REGARDS PALESTINIAN REFUGEES & THEIR "RIGHT OF RETURN" TO ISRAEL, HOW DID THE POLICY OF JORDAN DIFFER FROM THAT OF OTHER ARAB LEAGUE COUNTRIES?  WHY DID KING HUSSEIN'S PLAN FOR AN ISRAELI-ARAB PEACE FAIL?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 150, August 10, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PALESTINE OR PEACE:
A 1960 Jordanian Peace Initiative:
Rexamining History

By Shmuel Bar



PUBLIC STATEMENTS, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, IRANIAN WAR PLANS, & WHAT THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES SHOULD DO ABOUT IT:  THE ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME IN IRAN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCES ITS PLANS TO ACQUIRE FULLY OPERATIONAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS & USE THEM AGAINST ISRAEL, BRITAIN, & AMERICA -- MUST WE WAIT FOR MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD TO DO WHAT HE SAYS HE INTENDS TO DO?  MUST WE WAIT AROUND FOR IRAN TO DEVELOP A NUCLEAR MILITARY CAPABILITY & LAUNCH NUCLEAR ATTACKS AGAINST US?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 148, August 7, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IRAN DECLARES ITS NUCLEAR BAD INTENTIONS

By Alan Caruba



ISRAEL, AZERBAIJAN, & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA:  THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL & AZERBAIJAN -- THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PARTNERSHIP & ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA -- HOW FAR ARE AZERBAIJANI ELITES WILLING TO PURSUE TIES WITH ISRAEL? WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF THE BAKU-JERUSALEM RELATIONSHIP TO AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 147, August 6, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL & AZERBAIJAN'S FURTIVE EMBRACE

By Illya Bourtman



THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  ISLAMISM VERSUS WESTERN CULTURE -- THE WEST'S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL IN THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE PROGRESSIVE WEAKENING OF THE WEST'S WILL TO SURVIVE -- THE WESTERN TENDENCY TO RESORT TO APPEASEMENT OF A VERY DANGEROUS ENEMY & THEREBY UNDERMINE THE WEST'S DEFENSES AGAINST THAT ENEMY -- ANEMIC REMNANTS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION DAILY EXIBITING LESS & LESS OF A DETERMINATION TO STOP, OR EVEN SLOW DOWN, THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT SPREADING INSIDIOUSLY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, IN PURSUIT OF THE GOALS OF WORLD DOMINATION & DESTRUCTION OF WESTERN CULTURE
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Volume VIII, Issue # 144, August 2, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WESTERN CULTURE'S FLAGGING WILL TO SURVIVE

By Christopher G. Adamo



AMERICAN LIBERALISM DURING TIME OF WAR:  THE LIBERAL TENDENCY TO TRY TO "UNDERSTAND" THE ENEMY & EXCUSE HIS BAD BEHAVIOR -- LIBERALISM & THE ISLAMIST JIHAD -- THE LIBERAL POSITION REGARDING ISLAMISM, THE ISEAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, & THE WORLDWIDE TERROR WAR THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST -- FAULTY LIBERAL ANALYSIS REGARDING THE NATURE & CAUSES OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR & THE COURSE OF ACTION ISRAEL, AMERICA, & THE WEST SHOULD TAKE IN DEALING WITH THE COMMON ENEMY IN THE CONFLICT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 142, July 29, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NO LIBERALS IN MY FOXHOLE!

By Alan Caruba



THE NATIONAL DEBATE OVER WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE CONTINUING CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, & WHEN TO DO IT:  WHAT MUST BE DONE ABOUT ISLAMIST TERRORISM & STATE SPONSORS OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM?  WHEN MUST IT BE DONE?  SHOULD DECISIVE & THOROUGHGOING MILITARY ACTION BE TAKEN TO DEFEAT & TOTALLY DESTROY THE ISLAMIST ENEMIES OF ISRAEL & THE WEST?  SHOULD SUCH MILITARY ACTION BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY, OR SHOULD ANOTHER ATTEMPT BE MADE TO APPEASE THE ISLAMISTS & THEREBY DELAY THE INEVITABLE?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 136, July 23, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DECISIVE MILITARY ACTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST:
DO IT NOW, OR DO IT LATER?

By Alan Caruba



THE BUSH DOCTRINE & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  SEEKING & SUPPORTING THE GROWTN OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS & INSTITUTIONS, WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ENDING TYRANNY IN THE WORLD -- HOW HARD SHOULD THE U.S.A. PUSH CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST?  HOW MUCH EMPHASIS SHOULD BE PLACED ON THE POPULAR VOTE & DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS?  HOW SLOW OR FAST SHOULD BE THE TRANSFORMATION FROM DICTATORSHIP TO CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY?  SHOULD THE U.S.A BE NEUTRAL IN MIDDLE EASTERN ELECTIONS?  HOW IMPORTANT IS POLITICAL STABILITY?  DO ELECTIONS MODERATE ISLAMISTS?  IS TURKEY A MODEL FOR DEMOCRATIZATION?  AS REGARDS ITS EFFORTS TO DEMOCRATIZE THE MIDDLE EAST, HOW SHOULD THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION BE GRADED?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 135, July 22, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IS DEMOCRACY ABOUT MORE THAN ELECTIONS?
A DEBATE



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, ISLAMIST TERRORISM, & ISRAEL'S POLICY OF TARGETED KILLING OF TERRORISTS:   THE VICTORY OF HAMAS IN THE PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS & SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- VINDICATION & RENEWAL OF ISRAEL'S TARGETED ASSASSINATION POLICY -- HIZBOLLAH'S OPENING OF A SECOND FRONT IN THE TERROR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL -- WHY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SHOULD SUPPORT THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN ITS ENDEAVOR TO ROOT OUT & DESTROY TERRORIST ELEMENTS WHEREVER THEY MAY BE FOUND
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 134, July 21, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TARGETED KILLINGS

By Asaf Romirowsky



WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE LONG & TROUBLED HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST & THE IDEA OF DISPATCHING AN INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING FORCE TO THE REGION -- THE IMPORTANT LESSON THAT THE STATE OF ISRAEL LEARNED, AS REGARDS TRUSTING INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPERS -- THE SAME LESSON THAT THE U.S.A. & THE WEST SHOULD HAVE LEARNED BY NOW -- THE FOLLY OF RELYING ON INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPERS TO END A WAR IN PROGRESS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 133, July 21, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SENDING IN THE PEACEKEEPERS IS A FOOL'S GAME

By Dr. Michael Rubin



IRAN, ARABS, & THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT:  THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WIDER MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT BETWEEN IRAN & THE ARABS -- CRACKS IN THE SOLIDARITY OF POLITICAL ISLAM -- SHIITES VERSUS SUNNIS -- IRAN'S IDEOLOGICAL COMMITMENT TO EXPORTING THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION & SPREADING IT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST -- ARAB LEADERS' PERCEPTION OF HEZBOLLAH AS AN ARM OF IRANIAN INFLUENCE WAGING A SECTARIAN WAR IN THE HEART OF THE MIDDLE EAST
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 131, July 19, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IRAN AGAINST THE ARABS

By Dr. Michael Rubin



THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS OF AN ENDURING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  IS THERE A ROLE FOR DIPLOMACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS?  TOTAL ANNIHILATION OF SUCH TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS AS HEZBOLLAH & HAMAS & SEVERE PUNISHMENT OF THEIR STATE SPONSORS MUST PRECEDE DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO ARRANGE A MIDDLE EAST PEACE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 130, July 18, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & PROSPECTS FOR MIDEAST PEACE:
Eradication of Terrorists Prior to Diplomacy

By Dr. Michael Rubin



LEBANON, ISLAMIST TERRORISM, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  HEZBOLLAH, HAMAS, SYRIA, & IRAN COALESCED IN AN AXIS OF TERROR TO ENSURE TYRANNICAL CONTROL OVER LEBANON & THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL -- WHAT ISRAEL WILL DO FOR LEBANON WHEN ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES SHATTER THE STRONGHOLDS OF HEZBOLLAH IN SOUTHERN LEBANON & END THE RAIN OF HEZBOLLAH'S IRANIAN-MADE ROCKETS ON ISRAELI CITIES:  GIVE LEBANON YET ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO ASSERT ITS SOVEREIGNTY & FREE ITSELF FROM THE TYRANNY OF SYRIAN IMPERIALISM & THAT OF MILITANT ISLAMIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS SPONSORED BY SYRIA & IRAN
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 128, July 16, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE FATE OF LEBANON & THE REST OF US

By Alan Caruba



STATECRAFT & THE USE OF DIPLOMACY & DIALOGUE IN THE CONDUCT OF FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:  WHY EFFECTIVE FOREIGN POLICY REQUIRES THAT DIPLOMACY & DIALOGUE WITH ADVERSARIES BE CARRIED ON WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF AN OVERARCHING STRATEGY -- HOW POORLY TIMED NEGOTIATIONS & MISPLACED CONFIDENCE IN AN ADVERSARY'S SINCERITY CAN HAMPER, RATHER THAN HASTEN, SOLUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS -- THE NEED FOR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO COME TO GRIPS WITH REALITY IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 127, July 15, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ALL TALK & NO STRATEGY:  THE LIMITS OF DIPLOMACY

By Dr. Michael Rubin



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  THE STATE OF ISRAEL VERSUS PALESTINIAN TERRORISM -- ANTISEMITISM IN THE UNITED NATIONS & THE ARAB WORLD -- THE LESSONS THAT THE ENTIRE WORLD SHOULD LEARN FROM THE HISTORY OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT, INCLUDING THE ACTIONS OF PALESTINIAN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS:   A NATION HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST ITS ENEMIES -- A NATION MUST PUNISH ITS ENEMIES UNTIL THEY GIVE UP THE FIGHT & CEASE ALL ACTS OF AGGRESSION -- YOU CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL YOU -- ISRAEL'S ALTERNATIVES:  ANNIHILATE THE TERRORISTS, OR BE ANNIHILATED
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 123, July 12, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IT'S ALWAYS ISRAEL'S FAULT

By Alan Caruba



THE ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY:  ELIMINATE IDEOLOGUES, ISOLATE THEM, OR MARGINALIZE THEM TO THE POINT OF IMPOTENCE -- RAISE THE COST OF TERRORISM BEYOND THE ENDURANCE OF TERRORISTS -- EMPLOY FORCEFUL & DISRUPTIVE MEASURES AGAINST TERRORISTS, TERRORIST GROUPS, & STATES THAT SPONSOR & SUPPORT TERRORISM -- CREATE & MAINTAIN AN EXCEEDINGLY HOSTILE & DESTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR TERRORISM & ITS SUPPORTERS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 122, July 12, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

STRATEGIES FOR AN EFFECTIVE COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY
CONFRONTING THE THREAT OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

By Michael Rubin & Suzanne Gershowitz



A HISTORY OF THE THIRD WORLD WAR:  THE COLD WAR & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- THE ROLE OF THE KGB IN THE SOVIET UNION'S ENDEAVOR TO GAIN INFLUENCE IN & CONTROL OF THE MIDDLE EAST & USE IT TO UNDERMINE & CONQUER THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- HOW & WHY THE KGB'S EFFORTS ENDED LARGELY IN FAILURE -- IN WHAT WAY DID THE EFFORTS SUCCEED?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 121, July 11, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HAMMER, SIKLE, & CRESCENT:  A BOOK REVIEW

By Dr. Barry Rubin



UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY:  U.S. DEFENSE OF ALLIES FROM AGGRESSION IS A POLICY REMARKABLT CONSISTENT & BIPARTISAN -- THE U.S. CONGRESS UNITES IN THE FACE OF AGGRESSION AGAINST THE U.S.A. OR ITS ALLIES -- THE PLEDGE OF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH TO PROTECT ISRAEL MILITARILY AGAINST IRAN IS NEITHER UNIQUE NOR COUNTER TO AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 118, July 9, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE U.S.A. DEFENDS ITS ALLIES

By Dr. Michael Rubin



ISLAMISM, TERRORISM, & JIHADISM:  USE OF POLITICS, CHARITY, & TERRORISM IN THE SERVICE OF JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL & THE WEST -- MILITANT ISLAM, HAMAS, SAUDI ARABIA, MILITANT ISLAM, ISLAMIC BANKING, & FUNDING THE GLOBAL WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 87, May 25, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

POPULAR NOTIONS LAID BARE:  A REVIEW
OF THREE BOOKS ON TERRORISM & JIHADISM

By Dr Michael Rubin



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & THE WAR OF IDEAS IN THE MEDIA:  THE TWISTED PSYCHOLOGY THAT PALESTINIAN ARABS USE TO FURTHER THEIR SENSE OF VICTIMIZATION, GAIN THE SYMPATHY OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, & CONTINUE INCITEMENT OF TERRORISM -- CONDEMNING ISRAEL FOR THE CRIMES OF PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS -- WHY THERE WILL NEVER BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE ARABS' HATRED OF JEWS IS GREATER THAN THE ARABS' LOVE OF THEIR OWN SONS & DAUGHTERS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 75, May 10, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PALESTINIAN ARABS VERSUS ISRAELI JEWS:
FIGHT BETWEEN DAVID & GOLIAH

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE FOURTH WORLD WAR & RELATIONS BETWEEN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:  INCREASED SCRUTINY OF U.S.-SAUDI TIES & SAUDI SUPPORT OF ISLAMISM -- ARE U.S.-SAUDI RELATIONS SOLID?  WHO CONTROLS SAUDI ARABIA?  SAUDI FOREIGN POLICY -- HOW HELPFUL IS SAUDI INFLUENCE TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IN SAFEGUARDING & PROMOTING AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, PARTICULARLY AS REGARDS SYRIAN & IRANIAN INTERFERENCE IN LEBANON, THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, & THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR CHALLENGE?  HOW IMPORTANT IS PETROLEUM TO THE BILATERAL U.S.-SAUDI RELATIONSHIP?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 66, April 28, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HAS THE SAUDI KINGDOM REFORMED?
A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Middle East Quarterly



A DISTORTED & INACCURATE HISTORY OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, WRITTEN BY A DIEHARD IDEOLOGUE WHO VIEWS ZIONIST & ISRAELI HISTORY AS MORE THAN A CENTURY OF COLONIZATION, OCCUPATION, & DISPOSSESSION OF PALESTINIAN ARABS: A MANIFESTION OF THE CRISIS IN MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES -- BLURRING THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP & UNADULTERATED PROPAGANDA
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 38, February 19, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AN IDEOLOGUE'S HISTORY OF MODERN PALESTINE:
A BOOK REVIEW

By Efraim Karsh



TERRORISM: THE PALESTINIANS, HAMAS, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- HAMAS & THE IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST & THE IRISH NATIONALIST TERRORIST GROUP IN NORTHERN IRELAND -- SIGNIFICANT VARIABLES: HISTORY, CULTURE, RELIGION, IDEOLOGY, & STRENGTH OF TENDENCY TO RESPOND FAVORABLY TO ECONOMIC INCENTIVES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 33, February 15, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HAMAS & THE IRA:  TERRORISM IN
THE MIDDLE EAST & NORTHERN IRELAND

By Asaf Romirowsky



DEEP DIVISION WITHIN ISRAELI SOCIETY:  DIVISION BETWEEN THE ADHERENTS OF LEFTWING SECULAR SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALIST ZIONISM & THE ADHERENTS OF RIGHTWING CLASSICAL LIBERAL RELIGIOUS NATIONALIST ZIONISM -- HOW DIVISION BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS IS REFLECTED IN THE POLITICAL CONFLICT OVER ISRAEL'S UNILATERAL DISENGAGEMENT FROM GAZA & THE WEST BANK -- THE OPPOSING IDEOLOFIES OF THE LEFT & THE RIGHT -- THE ARGUMENT OVER ISRAELI IDENTITY & THE ESSENCE OF ZIONISM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 273, December 14, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ZIONISM IN CRISIS

By Meyrav Wurmser



HAMAS & OTHER ISLAMIST GROUPS:  THE PROBLEM ISRAEL & AMERICA ARE FACING -- ARE HAMAS & OTHER RADICAL ISLAMIC GROUPS LEGITIMATE PARTICIPANTS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS ABOUT TO UNFOLD IN THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES?  SHOULD ANTI-DEMOCRATIC, ANTI-CONSTITUTIONALIST ORGANIZATIONS BE PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS?  SHOULD HAMAS BE ALLOWED TO USE THE DEMOCRACTIC PROCESS AS A TOOL TO PROMOTE ISLAMIST TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY & PREVENT EMERGENCE OF A STABLE & LASTING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN PALESTINE?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 271, December 12, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ONE MAN, ONE VOTE -- ONCE

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE HEZBOLLAH MISSILE THREAT TO ISRAEL:  THE NATURE & EXTENT OF THE THREAT -- HOW WOULD HEZBOLLAH ATTACK ISRAEL?  DOES OR CAN ISRAEL HAVE A CREDIBLE DEFENSE?  IS A NEW CONFLICT ON THE HORIZON?  WILL HEZBOLLAH LAUNCH THE ROCKETS?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 262, December 6, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HEZBOLLAH'S STRATEGIC THREAT TO ISRAEL

By Patrick Devenny



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & ISRAEL'S SEARCH FOR PEACE:  THE ISRAELIS' CREATION OF A FREE, VIBRANT, & CREATIVE SOCIETY IN THE AUTHORITARIAN & BACKWARD MIDDLE EAST, DESPITE THE JEWISH NATION, FOR ALMOST SIXTY YEARS, BEING UNDER SIEGE BY THE ARABS -- CAN ISRAEL CONTINUE NURTURING WHAT ITS PEOPLE HAVE BUILT AS A MEANS TO TRUE CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, OR WILL THE JEWISH STATE, IN ITS SEARCH FOR A GENUINE PEACE, CONTINUE TO NEGOTIATE WITH ITS ARAB ENEMIES, GRASPING AT DELUSIONS OF PEACE THAT WILL THREATEN EVERYTHING THE ISRAELIS HAVE CREATED?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 238, October 31, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE OSLO SYNDROME -- DELUSIONS OF A PEOPLE UNDER SIEGE

By Dr. Kenneth Levin



THE MIDDLE EAST & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ & PROSPECTS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STABLE & ENDURING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EASTERN REGION -- ENHANCING DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  WHAT THE U.S.A. & THE WEST SHOULD & SHOULD NOT DO
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 233, October 23, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IRAQ & THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST

By Michael Rubin



THE PALESTINIAN CHOICE:  A PALESTINIAN STATE OR A PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE -- STRUGGLE AS THE CHOICE OF MANY PALESTINIANS -- THEIR UNWILLINGNESS TO SEE THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION OF THE GAZA STRIP AS HAVING COME TO AN END -- EQUATING THE END OF THE OCCUPATION WITH THE END OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- HIGH TIME FOR THE PALESTINIANS TO END THEIR SELF-IMPOSED OCCUPATION OF THE PALESTINIAN MIND
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 224, October 12, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE OCCUPATION OF THE PALESTINIAN MIND

By Nir Boms & Asaf Romirowsky



THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS:  LACK OF INTELLECTUAL HONESTY, EMPIRICAL RIGOR, & TRUE SCHOLARSHIP IN THE COUNCIL'S EXAMINATION & ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST & THE PROBLEMS & CHALLENGES THE SITUATION CREATES FOR THE CONDUCT OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & THE PROTECTION OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & SECURITY -- AVOIDANCE OF RESEARCH & DEBATE, WISHFUL THINKING, ADHERENCE TO IDEOLOGY, DISSEMINATION OF PROPAGANDA, & PURSUIT OF A POLITICAL AGENDA -- PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES & REPORTS THAT OPPOSE U.S. UNILATERALISM & MILITARY ACTION, CONDEMN THE STATE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS DEFENSIVE MEASURES AGAINST ISLAMIC TERRORISM, EXONERATE THE PALESTINIAN ARAB LEADERSHIP OF THEIR SPONSORSHIP OF TERRORISM, SUPPORT ENGAGEMENT WITH & APPEASEMENT OF REJECTIONIST STATES & LEADERS, & DOWNPLAY THE THREAT OF RADICAL ISLAM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 197, September 6, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
& ITS MIDDLE EASTERN PROGRAM

By Daniel Mandel & Asaf Romirowsky



THE ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM THE GAZA STRIP:  THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE 1967 SIX DAY WAR THAT ISRAEL HAS SURRENDERED TERRITORIES CLAIMED BY PALESTINIANS AS PART OF THEIR FUTURE STATE -- UNANSWERED QUESTIONS:   WILL HAMAS & THE ISLAMISTS TAKE CONTROL OF GAZA, OR WILL PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS MANAGE TO ESTABLISH & MAINTAIN THE RULE OF LAW? -- THE BIGGER QUESTION:  HOW DOES DISENGAGEMENT FROM GAZA AFFECT THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE STATE OF ISRAEL & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 194, September 3, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

GAZA:  HOW IT ALL GOT STARTED

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & EUROPEAN ATTITUDES REGARDING THE STATE OF ISRAEL: EUROPEAN ANTAGONISM TOWARD ISRAEL & EUROPE'S ALMOST IRRATIONAL HATRED OF ARIEL SHARON -- THE CAUSES:  ANTI-AMERICANISM, THE POLITICALLY BIASED NEWS MEDIA'S ANTIPATHY TOWARD THE JEWISH STATE, PERCEPTION OF ISRAEL AS AN OUTGROWTH OF COLONIALISM, & A WIDESPREAD FEELING OF ANTI-SEMITISM DEEP SEATED IN EUROPEAN HISTORY & CULTURE -- EUROPE'S INVOLVEMENT IN ISRAELI-ARAB DIPLOMACY MORE A HINDRANCE THAN A HELP
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 181, August 19, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

EUROPE'S PROBLEM WITH ARIEL SHARON

By Suzanne Gershowitz & Emanuele Ottolenghi



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & THE EFFORTS OF THE MORALLY BANKRUPT "DIPLOMATIC COMMUNITY" TO BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST THROUGH APPEASEMENT OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS & THEIR ISLAMIST ALLIES:  PRESSURING ISRAEL TO WITHDRAW FROM GAZA & CEDE THE REGION BACK INTO THE HANDS OF ISRAEL'S MORTAL ENEMIES -- COWARDLY & REPREHENSIBLE BEHAVIOR REWARDING THE BARBARISM OF THE PRO-PALESTINIAN & ISLAMIST TERRORISTS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 178, August 16, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

GAZA PULLOUT:  REPEATING THE DISASTROUS
ATTEMPTS AT APPEASEMENT

By Christopher G. Adamo



POLITICAL CONFLICT WITHIN THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  THE INTENSIFYING CONTROVERSY OVER THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT'S DETERMINATION TO USE MILITARY FORCE TO DISMANTLE JEWISH SETTLEMENTS IN THE GAZA STRIP & EFFECT WITHDRAWAL OF ALL JEWISH SETTLERS & ISRAELI SOLDIERS FROM GAZA, ALLOWING THE REGION TO FALL UNDER THE ABSOLUTE CONTROL OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS -- WHY ISRAELI DISENGAGEMENT FROM GAZA IS A QUESTIONABLE POLICY -- HOW THE POLICY WILL AFFECT ISRAELI SOCIETY -- HOW THE POLICY THREATENS AMERICAN INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 173, August 11, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

LEAVING GAZA:  IS THE WITHDRAWAL GOOD FOR ISRAEL?

By Dr. Meyrav Wurmser



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE PRECONDITIONS OF AN ENDURING PEACE BETWEEN THE ISRAELIS & THE PALESTINIAN ARABS:  DEFEAT & DESTRUCTION OF THE TERRORISTS & ESTABLISHMENT OF A STABLE, PEACEFUL PALESTINIAN POLITICAL REGIME ABLE & WILLING TO ENFORCE THE RULE OF LAW WITHIN THE PALESTINIAN-CONTROLLED TERRITORIES OF GAZA & THE WEST BANK & PREVENT ARMED TERRORIST GROUPS FROM OPERATING WITHIN THOSE TERRITORIES, KEEPING THEM FROM VICTIMIZING THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE & FROM USING THE TERRITORIES AS BASES OF GUERRILLA OPERATIONS AGAINST THE PEOPLE & GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 133, June 17, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DEFEAT OF TERROR, NOT ROADMAP DIPLOMACY,
WILL BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST

By Newt Gingrich



THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE STATE OF ISRAEL, & THE BARBARIC FORCES OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM:  THE U.S.A. & ISRAEL LOCKED IN A LIFE-&-DEATH STRUGGLE WITH RADICAL ISLAM & ITS GLOBAL TERRORIST NETWORK -- THE ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN IN ACADEMIA & ITS CORROSIVE IMPACT ON AMERICAN CULTURE & SOCIETY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 116, May 20, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE JEWISH CANARY

By Asaf Romirowsky



AMERICAN & EUROPEAN OFFICIALS' BLIND SPOT REGARDING ISLAMIC TERRORISM & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:   THE INSINCERITY & NAIVETE UNDERLYING WESTERN POLITICIANS' & BUREAUCRATS' RHETORIC ABOUT THE TERRORISTS' SOCALLED COMMITMENT TO & ADVANCES IN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY -- STRENGTHENING THE FORCES OF TERROR & PUTTING ISRAELI LIVES ON THE LINE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 108, May 11, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:
SOOTHING RHETORIC, SCARY REALITY

By Michael Rubin



THE WORK OF THE SOCALLED "NEW HISTORIANS":  POST-ZIONIST ANALYSIS OF THE COLLAPSE & DISPERSION OF PALESTINE'S ABAB SOCIETY DURING THE 1948 WAR -- A CRITIQUE OF THE "SCHOLARSHIP" OF THE LEFT-LEANING POST-ZIONIST "NEW HISTORIANS," REFUTING THEIR BIASED, DISTORTED & GROSSLY INACCURATE HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE GENESIS OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 106, May 9, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BENNY MORRIS'S REIGN OF ERROR, REVISITED:
THE POST-ZIONIST CRITIQUE

By Efraim Karsh



RADICAL ISLAM & JIHADISM:  THE ISLAMIST INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST MOVEMENT & THE JIHAD IT IS WAGING AGAINST THE WEST IN GENERAL & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN PARTICULAR -- THE ORIGINS OF THE MOVEMENT, THE NATURE & EFFECTNESS OF ITS METHODS, ITS PERCEPTION OF THE U.S.A. AS THE STRATEGIC ENEMY, & WHY AMERICA & ITS ALLIES MUST REMAIN RESOLUTE & PERSISTENT IN WAGING AN EFFECTIVE COUNTERTERRORIST WAR AGAINST THE JIHADISTS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 103, May 5, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

LESSONS FROM THE COUNTERTERRORISM WAR

By Boaz Ganor



ARIEL SHARON'S PLAN FOR UNILATERAL ISRAELI DISENGAGEMENT FROM GAZA, WHEREBY ISRAEL, WITHOUT A GENUINE PEACE AGREEMENT WITH THE PALESTINIANS & OTHER ARABS, WITHDRAWS ITS MILITARY & CIVILIANS FROM THE GAZA STRIP:  A CLEAR & UNAMBIGUOUS PLAN FOR ISRAEL'S RETREAT IN THE FACE OF TERRORIST ATTACKS -- A PLAN WHICH, WHEN IMPLEMENTED, WILL EMBOLDEN THE TERRORISTS & SERIOUSLY WEAKEN & UNDERMINE THE POSITION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN ITS WAR FOR SURVIVAL AGAINST THE FORCES OF ARAB & ISLASMIST TERRORISM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 102, May 4, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL'S RETREAT FROM GAZA

By Daniel Mandel



TURKEY & ISRAEL -- WHAT THE TWO NATIONS HAVE IN COMMON:  EACH NATION HAS A COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP WITH EUROPE & EACH HAS EXPERIENCED AN INTERNAL POPULAR REACTION AGAINST SECULARISM & ELITISM & THE RISE OF RELIGIOUS-BASED POLITICAL PARTIES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 101, May 3, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TURKEY & ISRAEL:  WHAT BINDS ANKARA & JERUSALEM

By Soner Cagaplay & Asaf Romirowsky



MIZRAHIM & ASHKENAZIM:  THE CULTURAL FAULTLINE IN ISRAELI SOCIETY -- RADICAL POST-ZIONIST ANALYSIS OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ISRAELI JEWS OF TWO DIFFERING ETHNIC & SUBCULTURAL IDENTITIES & HOW THIS CONFLICT WILL & SHOULD IMPACT ON THE FUTURE OF ISRAEL:  WHY POST-ZIONISM & ITS RADICAL REJECTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL CONSTITUTE THE WRONG ANSWER TO THE PROBLEM EXISTING BETWEEN MIZRAHI & ASHKENAZI JEWS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 99, April 30, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL:  POST-ZIONISM & THE SEPHARDI QUESTION

By Meyrav Wurmser



ISRAEL'S COMING DISENGAGEMENT FROM GAZA:  THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT'S PLAN TO FORCE JEWISH SETTLERS RESIDING IN THE GAZA STRIP TO GIVE UP THEIR HOMES & RESETTLE WITHIN THE BORDERS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- WILL THE FORCED WITHDRAWAL BE CONTESTED BY THE SETTLERS?  ARE THE ISRAELIS ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 97, April 28, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

JEWISH SETTLERS IN GAZA RESTLESS OVER
THE COMING FORCED WITHDRAWAL

By Asaf Romirowsky



UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS:  U.S. SENATOR JON KYLE'S POSITIONS ON WINNING THE WAR AGAINST ISLAMIST TERRORISM, PROMOTING AMERICA'S INTERESTS AROUND THE WORLD, DEALING WITH THE PROBLEM OF COMMUNIST CHINA, & MAINTAINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STATE OF ISRAEL & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 80, April 9, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY

By Jon Kyle



THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION & THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  THE PRO-ISRAELI POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN -- THE BROADER RUSSIAN-ISRAELI RELATIONSHIP, THE PUTIN DOCTRINE REGARDING RUSSIAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & THE THREAT OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM, & THE DIRECTION IN WHICH RUSSIA'S MIDDLE EAST POLICY IS TILTING
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 56, March 20, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

VLADIMIR PUTIN'S PRO-ISRAEL POLICY

By Mark N. Katz



KING ADDULLAH II BIN AL HUSSEIN OF JORDAN DESCRIBES HIS CONCERNS ABOUT IRAQ & IRAN, EXPLAINS HIS STRATEGY TO COUNTER RADICAL ISLAM, & OUTLINES HIS HOPES FOR PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE ARABS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 50, March 11, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE JORDANIAN KING ON IRAQ, IRAN, ISLAMISM,
& THE ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE PROCESS

Interview by Robert Satloff
For the Middle East Quarterly



REVIVAL OF THE IDEOLOGY OF ANTI-SEMITISM:  THE HISTORY & EVOLUTION OF WESTERN & ISLAMIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE JEWS -- THE GRADUAL TRANSFORMATION FROM THE MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUSLY CHARGED ANTI-SEMITISM, CONSISTING OF BLOOD LIBELS, CHRISTIAN POLEMICS & ANTI-JEWISH METAPHORS, TO THE MODERN RACIAL ANTI-SEMITISM CULTIVATED BY ADOLF HITLER & THE NAZIS --THE MOST RECENT ANTI-SEMITIC IDEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 43, March 1, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ANTI-SEMITISM REVISITED

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE SECOND TERM OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH:  A TERM DURING WHICH THE PRESIDENT WILL CONTINUE TO PROMOTE FREEDOM, LIBERTY & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, THE RANK-&-FILE BUREAUCRATS IN THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY & THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT & EVEN MANY IN THE U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT WILL PERSIST IN THEIR HOSTILITY TO THE PRESIDENT'S MIDDLE EAST POLICIES, & THE ACTIONS OF ADVERSARIES, RATHER THAN U.S. GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES, WILL REMAIN THE DOMINANT FACTOR IN SHAPING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 28, February 2, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BUSH MARCHES INTO A SECOND TERM,
HIS AGENDA SET BY MIDEAST FOES

By Michael Rubin



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- REINVIGORATION & INTENSIFICATION OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM & INSURGENCY THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST & MORE FREQUENT JIHADIST TERROR ATTACKS AGAINST THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES:  THE CERTAIN CONSEQUENCE OF IMPLEMENTING ARIEL SHARON'S PLAN FOR ISRAEL'S UNILATERAL WITHDRAWAL FROM THE GAZA STRIP, AFTER FORCING ALL JEWISH SETTLERS TO ABANDON THEIR HOMES IN GAZA & RELOCATE INSIDE THE BORDERS OF ISRAEL
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 27, February 1, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL'S UNILATERAL WITHDRAWAL FROM GAZA:
AN IRRESPONSIBLE ACTION WITH FAR-REACHING CONSEQUENCES

By Michael Rubin



THE PRECONDITION FOR PEACE AMONG PALESTINIANS & BETWEEN THE PALESTINIANS & THE STATE OF ISRAEL:   INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM & A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY WITHIN PALESTINIAN SOCIETY -- AN END TO DICTATORSHIP IN GAZA & THE WEST BANK & AN END TO COLLUSION BETWEEN THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY & ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 13, January 18, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PALESTINIANS & PEACE IN THE HOLY LAND:
PEACE WILL ONLY COME AFTER FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY

By NATAN SHARANSKY



QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE RECENT ELECTION OF MAHMOUD ABBAS AS PRIME MINISTER OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY:  WILL THE NEW PRIME MINISTER BE ABLE TO BRIDGE THE MULTIFACETED & FUNDAMENTAL DIVIDE THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THE GAZA & WEST BANK SECTORS OF PALESTINIAN SOCIETY?  WILL MAHMOUD ABBAS BE ABLE & WILLING TO LEAD THE PALESTINIANS IN THE DIRECTION OF ACCEPTING ISRAEL AS A JEWISH STATE & ACKNOWLEDGING THAT PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE PALESTINIANS IS NORMAL, NATURAL, & HIGHLY DESIRABLE?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 11, January 16, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PALESTINIANS:  A FRACTIOUS SOCIETY

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- ISRAELI SOCIETY VERSUS PALESTINIAN SOCIETY:  THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE THE TWO SOCIETIES & THE DISUNITY WITHIN EACH OF THEM -- DEMOCRACY AS THE FOUNDATION FOR GETTING PAST THE INTERNAL DIVISIONS IN EACH SOCIETY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # !, January 3, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ARAFAT'S FUNDING OF THE TERROR:
A BRIEFING BY MATTHEW REES

Summary Account by Samantha Vinograd



THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT, THE DEATH OF YASSER ARAFAT, & PROSPECTS FOR SUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATION OF A LASTING PEACE BETWEEN THE ISRAELI JEWS & THE PALESTINIAN ARABS -- AN ABSOLUTE, NON-NEGOTIABLE CONDITION FOR SUCH A PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE PALESTIANS MUST RID THEMSELVES OF THE CORRUPTION, OPPRESSION, & TAINT OF TERRORISM REPRESENTED BY THE ERA OF ARAFAT & THE POLITICAL REGIME HE LEFT BEHIND
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 259, December 10, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT:
NO MORE COMPROMISES

By Alan Caruba



THE LONGTERM FUTURE OF POLITICAL STABILITY IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  AS PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON MOVES FORWARD WITH HIS PLAN FOR ISRAELI DISENGAGEMENT FROM THE GAZA STRIP, WILL DISENGAGEMENT UNITE OR DIVIDE THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL?  CAN SHARON BE SEEN AS THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, OR WILL HIS ACTIONS CREATE ONLY GREATER FRAGMENTATION IN ISRAELI SOCIETY?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 257, December 8, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ARIEL SHARON'S ALTALENA:
ISRAEL'S DISENGAGEMENT FROM GAZA

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- ISRAEL'S SECURITY BARRIER & THE PRECEDENTS FOR RESORT TO SECURITY BARRIERS AS A MEANS OF SEPARATING HOSTILE POPULATIONS & PROTECTING A SOCIETY FROM TERRORIST INFILTRATION & ATTACKS:  THE BLATANT POLITICAL BIAS & HYPROCRISY OF THE NATION-STATES SUPPORTING THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL & DEMAND FOR REMOVAL OF ITS COURTERTERRORIST SECURITY BARRIER
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 248, November 22, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IS ISRAEL'S SECURITY BARRIER UNIQUE?

By Ben Thein



YASSER ARAFAT -- THE LIFE & DEATH OF A CORRUPT TYRANT, RUTHLESS MASTERMIND OF TERRORISM, & MAJOR ROADBLOCK TO PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  HOW THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TURNED A THUG & TERRORIST LEADER INTO A "RESPECTABLE STATEMAN" & THE MESSAGE THIS IMAGE-MAKING PROPAGANDA SENDS TO AMERICA'S TERRORIST ENEMIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 246, November 19, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

YASSER ARAFAT -- THE "RESPECTABLE" TYRANT

By Asaf Romirowsky



INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW & THE QUESTION OF PROPER PROCEDURE IN DEALING WITH CAPTURED ILLEGAL ENEMY COMBATANTS IN THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES -- THE COMPLEXITIES OF THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS & THE DEGREE TO WHICH THEY SHOULD APPLY TO THE WAR ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 242, November 15, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DOES INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW APPLY TO TERRORISTS?

By Ted Lapkin



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & THE IMPENDING DEATH OF YASSER ARAFAT -- WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER ARAFAT IS GONE:  WILL THE DEATH OF ARAFAT OPEN THE DOORS TO PEACE BETWEEN THE ISRAELIS & THE PALESTINIAN ARABS?   WHAT DOES PAST EXPERIENCE & ARAB MUSLIM CULTURE SUGGEST?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 238, November 10, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT:
WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER ARAFAT?

By Alan Caruba



YASIR ARAFAT, HIS CRONIES, & THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY -- THE QUALITY OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP & GOVERNMENT IN GAZA & THE WEST BANK:  DICTATORSHIP & RAMPANT POLITICAL CORRUPTION -- A POLITICAL REGIME CHARACTERIZED BY MALFEASANCE & CRIMINAL RASCALITY IN PUBLIC OFFICE & BY THE ABSENCE OF CONSTITUTIONALISM, THE RULE OF LAW, SEPARATION OF POWERS, & CHECKS & BALANCES IN THE GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 230, October 31, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

YASIR ARAFAT'S SWISS BANK ACCOUNT:
CORRUPTION & DICTATORSHIP IN
THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY

By Issam Abu Issa



THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY RELATING TO THE MIDDLE EAST -- U.S. MISSLE EAST POLICYMAKING DURING THE LAST FOUR YEARS:  WHAT HAS WORKED, WHAT HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED, WHAT HAS FAILED, & WHERE THE U.S.A. SHOULD GO FROM HERE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 226, October 27, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE U.S.A., ISRAEL, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:
TRY, TRY, TRY AGAIN -- PRESIDENT BUSH'S PEACE PLANS

By Daniel Mandel



FREEDOM OF SPEECH:  FREEDOM TO SPEAK ONE'S MIND & FREEDOM TO SPEAK WHATEVER LANGUAGE COMES MOST READILY TO ONE'S LIPS -- FREEDOM SORELY LACKING IN THE MIDDLE EAST
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 210, September 27, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

FREEDOM OF SPEECH -- FREE EXPRESSION IN ANY LANGUAGE:
LINQUISTIC FREEDOM FOR MINORITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

By Jonathan Eric Lewis



SYRIA, LEBANON, & THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME, ITS MILITARY OCCUPATION & SUBJUGATION OF LEBANON, & HOW THE SYRIAN REGIME HAS TURNED LEBANON INTO A MAJOR CENTER FOR TRAINING ISLAMIC TERRORISTS & FOR FUNDING & SUPPORT OF THE WAR WHICH THE ISLAMISTS & BAATHISTS ARE WAGING TO INSURE THAT THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST REMAINS THE SAME SORRY PLACE IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN SINCE THE FIRST WORLD WAR & THE COLLAPSE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 206, September 21, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SYRIA, LEBANON, TERRORISM, & THE MIDDLE EAST:
THE LEBANESE REMAIN SYRIA'S CAPTIVES & PAWNS

By Alan Caruba



"HUMAN RIGHTS" NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS:  THE STRUCTURE OF THEIR INFLUENCE, THE EXTENT & DIRECTION OF THEIR POLITICAL ADVOCACY & PROPAGANDA, & THEIR PRO-ARAB, PRO-TERRORIST, & ANTI-ISRAELI POLITICAL AGENDA -- THE NGO'S BIASED, ONE-SIDED ANALYSIS OF MATTERS RELATING TO THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 204, September 17, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
MAKE WAR ON ISRAEL

By Gerald M. Steinberg



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & THE GAZA STRIP -- PENETRATION OF THE ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN & GAZA-EGYPTIAN BORDERS, SMUGGLING OF WEAPONRY ACROSS THE BORDERS, PALESTINIAN TERRORISM INSIDE THE GAZA STRIP, EGYPT'S BORDER POLICIES, & THE THREAT TO THE ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN PEACE ACCORDS:  THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM, ITS RECENT EVOLUTION, ITS POLITICAL CONTEXT, & WHAT CAN BE DONE TO NEUTRALIZE THE PROMLEM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 188, August 24, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TUNNEL VISION IN GAZA

By Doron Almog



A STUDY IN DIPLOMATIC HISTORY & INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL INTRIGUE -- CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL & TRANSFORMATION OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST:  THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE AUSTRALIAN STATESMAN H. V. EVATT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 184, August 18, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL'S CREATION -- THE UNTOLD STORY:

A BRIEFING BY DANIEL MANDEL

By Dr. Daniel Mandel



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- YASIR ARAFAT'S "PHASED STRATEGY" FOR ACHIEVING AN ULTIMATE & TOTAL PALESTINIAN ARAB VICTORY IN THE CONFLICT:  EXPLOITATION OF THE OSLO "PEACE PROCESS" TO PENETRATE, SABOTAGE, UNDERMINE, WEAKEN, & EVENTUALLY BRING ABOUT TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 174, August 5, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

YASIR ARAFAT'S GRAND STRATEGY FOR ACHIEVING
THE CONQUEST & DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL

By Efraim Karsh



SPECULATING ON WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN A TRANSITION IS FORCED ON PALESTINIAN POLITICS BY THE DEMISE OF YASIR ARAFAT:  WHAT IMPACT WILLTHE TRANSITION HAVE ON THE PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT, ARAB POLITICS, & THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT? WHAT WILL REPLACE ARAFAT'S POLITICAL REGIME & MOVEMENT?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 171, August 2, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PALESTINIAN POLITICS:  WHAT HAPPENS AFTER ARAFAT IS GONE?

By Professor Barry Rubin



ISLAMISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, & ANTI-AMERICANISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST & IN FRANCE:  WHAT MOTIVATES THE ISLAMISTS & THEIR WESTERN COLLABORATORS IN THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT IS BEING WAGED AGAINST THE JEWS, THE STATE OF ISRAEL, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, & WESTERN CIVILIZATION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 144, July 3, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PREACHERS OF HATE:  ISLAM & THE WAR ON AMERICA

By Kenneth Timmerman



THE LACK OF MEDIA INDEPENDENCE UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP OF YASIR ARAFAT, THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, & THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION -- PALESTINIAN "NEWSPAPERS" AS PROPAGANDA OUTLETS FOR THE PALESTINIAN DICTATORSHIP: SUPRESSION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH & THE PRESS IN GAZA & THE WEST BANK -- THE IMPACT ON THE FOREIGN MEDIA
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 131, June 20, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS:

A BRIEFING PRESENTED TO THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM

By Khaled Abu Toameh



WOULD ARIEL SHARON'S PROPOSED ISRAELI UNILATERAL DISENGAGEMENT FROM GAZA & FORCIBLE REMOVAL OF THE JEWISH SETTLERS FROM THE AREA REALLY ACT AS A CATALYST FOR ACHIEVING A LASTING PEACE BETWEEN THE ISRAELIS & THE PALESTINIAN ARABS?  WHAT IS THE REAL ROOT OF THE PROBLEM THAT KEEPS THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT ALIVE & KICKING?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 102, May 20, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SHOULD ISRAEL FORSAKE GAZA?  WOULD ISRAEL'S WITHDRAWAL
FROM GAZA HELP BRING ENDURING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST?

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  WHEN YASIR ARAFAT IS NO LONGER IN THE PICTURE, WHO WILL SUCCEED HIM AS LEADER OR LEADERS OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS? WILL THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY FALL UNDER THE CONTROL OF HAMAS & OTHER MILITIAS? WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 70, April 7, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IF HAMAS INHERITS THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY:

A BRIEFING BY SHMUEL BAR

By Shmuel Bar



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & THE DEATH OF HAMAS LEADER, SHEIKH AHMED YASSIN:  UNITED STATES & EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS' FAULTY ANALYSIS OF THE CONFLICT & ASSOCIATED INCIDENTS & THEIR AMBUGUOUS, HYPOCRITICAL, DISHONEST, & TOTALLY UNSATISFACTORY RESPONSE TO THE TERRORIST LEADER'S DEATH IN A VICIOUS WAR THAT HE & HIS IDEOLOGICAL COMRADES & FOLLOWERS STARTED
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 66, April 1, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AMBIGUOUS RESPONSE:  DISTURBING REACTION TO YASSIN'S DEATH

By Daniel Mandel



ISRAEL'S VIEW OF APPEASEMENT AS A POLICY OPTION IN DEALING WITH ITS TERRORIST ENEMIES IN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  A POLICY OF APPEASING THE TERRORISTS WOULD BE A CERTAIN ROUTE TO ISRAEL'S TOTAL ANNIHILATION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 62, March 26, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL PRESSURED TO ACCEPT THE UNACCEPTABLE

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE PROPAGANDA LIE THAT HAS SURVIVED AS ENDURING MYTH THROUGHOUT THE ARAB WORLD:  THE EGYPTIAN ALLEGATION THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & OTHER WESTERN POWERS COLLUDED WITH THE STATE OF ISRAEL & PROVIDED THE INTELLIGENCE & MILITARY SUPPORT ESSENTIAL TO ISRAEL'S DEFEATING THE ARAB STATES & WINNING THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR OF 1967
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 59, March 23, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE 1967 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR & THE LIE THAT WON'T DIE

By Elie Podeh



AL-MANAR -- A LEBANON-BASED & IRANIAN-SUPPORTED TELEVISION STATION CONTROLLED BY THE HIZBULLAH TERRORIST ORGANIZATION & FINE-TUNED TO PRESENT A MILITANTLY ISLAMIST WORLDVIEW & PROMOTE AN EXTREMELY VIOLENT & PROFOUNDLY ANTI-WESTERN POLITICAL AGENDA:  THE ORIGINS & DEVELOPMENT OF AL-MANAR, THE NATURE OF ITS MESSAGE, & WHAT THE U.S.A. SHOULD DO TO MITIGATE ITS EFFECTS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 45, March 3, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AL-MANAR --HIZBULLAH TELEVISION:

PROPAGANDA ORGAN FOR ISLAMIC TERRORISM

By Avi Jorisch



HAMAS AS A SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATION & A TERRORIST NETWORK:  HOW HAMAS FUNDS & SUPPORTS PALESTINIAN TERRORISM UNDER THE COVER OF CHARITABLE & HUMANITARIAN CAUSES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 35, February 18, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CHARITY & TERRORISM: HAMAS FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE

By Matthew A. Levitt



THE TERROR WAR THAT YASSER ARAFAT & HIS PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION ARE WAGING AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- A WAR WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF DESTROYING THE ISRAELI NATION & KILLING AS MANY JEWS AS POSSIBLE:  WHAT ISRAEL MUST DO IN ORDER TO ENSURE ITS OWN NATIONAL SECURITY, SURVIVAL. & CONTINUED EXISTENCE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 32, February 13, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ARAFAT'S WAR -- A BRIEFING BY EFRAIM KARSH:

A SUMMARY ACCOUNT OF THE BRIEFING

By Zachary Constantino



INJECTING BALANCE, REALISM, & TRUTH INTO THE STUDY, ANALYSIS, & DISCUSSION OF INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS & ISSUES GROWING OUT OF ISLAMIC & MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS -- DANIEL PIPE'S REVIEW OF THE ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT, EFFORTS, & ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 19, January 27, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM:

A REVIEW OF ITS DEVELOPMENT & WORK
By Dr. Daniel Pipes


"RIGHT OF RETURN" -- A PHRASE WHICH CLEARLY EPITOMIZES PALESTINIAN & ARAB REJECTION OF THE LEGITIMACY OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL & WHICH IS TANTAMOUNT TO ADVOCATING ISRAEL'S DESTRUCTION THROUGH DEMOGRAPHIC SUBVERSION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 16, January 22, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL & THE PALESTINE REFUGEE ISSUE:
THE RIGHT OF RETURN

A BOOK REVIEW

By Efraim Karsh



GENUINE & LASTING PEACE IN THE HOLY LAND -- A PERMANENT END TO PALESTINIAN TERRORISM, RELIABLE & TRUSTWORTHY PALESTINIAN POLITICAL LEADERSHIP, & ALL THE OTHER CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL TO ENSURING THE SECURITY OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  THE ABSOLUTE, MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR BRINGING TO A FINAL CLOSE THE LONGTERM CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ISRAELI JEWS & THE PALESTINIAN ARABS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 9, January 13, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL'S SECURITY:  THE HARD-LEARNED LESSONS

By Yaakov Amidror



YASIR ARAFAT, THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, & ALLOCATION OF PA FUNDS -- ARAFAT'S ABSOLUTE CONTROL OVER THE PA'S HIGHLY CENTRALIZED BANKING INSTITUTION & THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH HE ALLOCATES THE MONEY:   FUNDING PERSONAL EXTRAVAGANCE, POLITICAL CORRUPTION, & ANTI-ISRAELI TERRORISM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 290, December 2, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

A ONE-MAN BANK -- THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY'S
HIGHLY CENTRALIZED BANKING INSTITUTION:

A BANK TOTALLY CONTROLLED BY YASIR ARAFAT

By Asaf Romirowsky



RELATIONS BETWEEN TURKEY & ISRAEL -- WEAKNESSES IN THE TURKISH-ISRAELI ENTENTE: POLITICAL ISLAM IN TURKEY, TURKISH PUBLIC SYMPATHY FOR THE PALESTINIAN ARABS, TURKEY'S RELATIONS WITH MANY OF ITS NEIGHBORS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, POSSIBLE DISAGREEMENTS BETWEEN TURKEY & ISRAEL OVER KURDISH ASPIRATIONS, & THE DESIRE OF INFLUENTIAL SEGMENTS OF THE ISRAELI PUBLIC TO RECOGNIZE THE 1915 ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AS A FACT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 288, November 29, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TURKEY & ISRAEL:

THE TURKISH-ISRAELI ENTENTE &
THE POTENTIAL MINES IN ITS PATH

By Gregory A. Burris



THE CURRENT PEACE BETWEEN EGYPT & ISRAEL:  IS IT AN ENDURING, SOLID, & IRREVERSIBLE PEACE, OR IS IT ONLY A TEMPORARY STATE OF TRUCE, WHILE EGYPT BUILDS UP ITS OWN MILITARY CAPABILITIES & INCITES ARAB TERRORISTS & ARAB STATE SUPPORTERS OF TERRORISM TO ERODE ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC, POLITICAL, & ECONOMIC ASSETS?  IS EGYPT UNDER HOSNI MUBARAK AN ASSET OR A LIABILITY TO THE U.S.A. IN ITS ENDEAVOR TO OPEN THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST TO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & FREE MARKETS?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 286, November 26, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

EGYPT & ISRAEL:

A REVERSIBLE PEACE

By Dan Eldar



THE ARABS' BLEAK FUTURE -- THE DECADENCE & DECLINE OF THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST:  FOCUS ON THE COMPENSATIONS OF THE NEXT WORLD WILL DO NOTHING TO ALTER THE ARABS' PREDICAMENT IN THIS WORLD
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 278, November 17, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE DECLINE OF THE ARABS

By Asher Susser



THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE UNITED NATIONS, THE EUROPEAN UNION, & THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION -- THE "QUARTET" THAT IS ENDEAVORING TO MAP A FINAL & ENDURING "PEACE" BETWEEN THE ISRAELI JEWS & THE PALESTINIAN ARABS:  FAILURE TO ADDRESS THE CORE PROBLEM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 261, October 28, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PART-FOUR DISHARMONY:

THE QUARTET MAPS "PEACE"
FOR THE MIDDLE EAST

By Daniel Mandel



THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE CONTEMPORARY ERA -- JEWISH IMMIGRATION, CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, DISCOVERY OF VAST OIL RESERVES, WAR, REVOLUTION, & CURRENT CONFLICTS:  THE TECHTONIC PLATES OF CHANGE THAT HERALD THE FULL-SCALE INVASION OF THE WEST & ITS VALUES INTO THE MIDDLE EAST, BRINGING CHANGE WHICH THE ARABS LITERALLY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO EMBRACE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 235, September 22, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE DOGS OF WAR & THE WINDS OF CHANGE
IN THE MIDDLE EAST

By Alan Caruba



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- FAILURE OF THE LATEST CEASE-FIRE & THE CONTINUING PALESTINIAN TERRORIST ATTACKS ON THE ISRAELI STATE & ITS PEOPLE:  WHY THE "ROADMAP TO PEACE" IS STILL THE ROADMAP TO NOWHERE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 232, September 17, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DISINTEGRATION OF THE HUDNA
& THE "ROADMAP TO PEACE"

By Eli Kazhdan & David Keyes



ISLAMIC TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL & ITS PEOPLE -- THE NEED FOR A NEW ISRAELI DEFENSE POLICY:  A TOUGHER & MORE AGGRESSIVE POLICY ENTAILING ISRAELI HELICOPTER GUNSHIPS STRAFING & BOMBING PALESTINIAN MASS POLITICAL FUNERAL RALLIES LED & ORCHESTRATED BY TERRORISTS CALLING FOR MORE MARTYRS, MORE SUICIDE BOMBERS & BOMBINGS, MORE MASS MURDER & MAYHEM OF ISRAELIS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 224, September 4, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE CALL OF THE ISRAELI APACHE:

DEFENDING ISRAEL AGAINST ISLAMIC TERRORISM

By Ariel Natan Pasko



THE CURRENT CEASEFIRE BROKERED BETWEEN THE STATE OF ISRAEL & THE PALESTINIAN ARABS BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT -- STILL ANOTHER TOTALLY UNREALISTIC PEACE MAKING EFFORT THAT IS BOUND TO FAIL:  THE KORAN AS THE PALESTINIANS' ROADMAP TO WAR
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 205, August 12, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PALESTINIAN ROADMAP TO WAR

By Alan Caruba



ENDEAVORING TO NEGOTIATE A PEACEFUL END TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- THE PALESTINIAN ARAB INSISTENCE ON THE ABSOLUTE & UNLIMITED RIGHT OF RETURN OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES TO ISRAEL:  AN INTRACTABLE ISSUE PREVENTING PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 185, July 18, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE PROBLEM:

NEGOTIATING A NON-NEGOTIABLE ISSUE

By Dr. Jacob Tovy



THE VERY LOW PROBABILITY THAT A COMPREHENSIVE & ENDURING PEACE BETWEEN THE STATE OF ISRAEL & THE ISLAMIC NATIONS OF NEAR EAST & CENTRAL ASIA CAN BE ACHIEVED -- THE "ROADMAP TO PEACE" AS THE ROADMAP TO NOWHERE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 176, July 8, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR ISRAEL?

By Max Abrahms



SEEKING TO WEAR US DOWN & FORCE OUR CAPITULATION & SUBMISSION TO ISLAMIC WORLD DOMINATION, THE ISLAMISTS CONTINUE TO WAGE THEIR WAR OF TERROR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE STATE OF ISRAEL, & WESTERN CIVILIZATION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 156, June 12, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE FATIGUE OF TERROR

By Alan Caruba



WORLD WAR IV -- THE GLOBAL WAR BETWEEN THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN WEST & RADICAL ISLAM -- NO PEACE UNTIL THE ISLAMIST AGGRESSORS & TERRORISTS ARE ALL DEAD OR, FOR SOME OTHER REASON, ARE NO LONGER AGGRESSORS & TERRORISTS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 128, May 3, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE "PALESTINIANS":

THE ROADMAP TO NOWHERE

By Alan Caruba



THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM -- HIGH TIME FOR AMERICANS TO REALIZE THAT THE PALESTINIANS CONSTITUTE AN IMPLACABLE ENEMY OF THE U.S.A. & A SERIOUS THREAT TO PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  AN ENEMY & THREAT THAT MUST BE ELIMINATED BY MILITARY SUBJUGATION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 111, April 15, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE OTHER ENEMY -- THE PALESTINIANS

By Alan Caruba



THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF THE ARAB STATES -- CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, THE RULE OF LAW, LIBERTY & JUSTICE UNDER LAW, MAJORITY RULE WITH PROTECTION OF MINORITY RIGHTS, & GOVERNMENTAL CHANGE BY PEACEFUL & LEGAL MEANS:  REASONABLE PROSPECTS, OR EMPTY SLOGANS?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 58, March 15, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

SCORECARD:  ISRAEL, 1 -- ARAB STATES, 0

By Ariel Nathan Pasko



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & MEDIA POLITICAL BIAS -- TIME MAGAZINE & THE "MAINSTREAM" MEDIA AS PROPAGANDISTS FOR THE PALESTINIAN ARAB TERRORISTS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 7, January 9, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TIME MAGAZINE, THE STATE OF ISRAEL,
& PALESTINIAN ARAB TERRORISM

By Steve Farrell



THE HOLY LAND AT CHRISTMAS -- THE PREVAILING CONDITION IS ONE OF ISLAMIC HATRED, WAR & TERRORISM, NOT PEACE ON EARTH & GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 169, December 25, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CHRISTMAS, 2002:

NO PEACE IN THE HOLY LAND

By Alan Caruba



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- WHO ARE THE REAL PALESTINIANS, THE ISRAELI JEWS OR THE PALESTINIAN ARABS?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 90, August 9, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

JUST WHO ARE ARAFAT & THE PALESTINIANS?
A NEWSMAX.COM ANALYSIS

By Colonel Stanislav Lunev



ARAB IMPERIALISM, ISLAMIC TERRORISM, & THE THREAT TO WORLD PEACE -- THE ROLE OF THE U.S.A. IN COPING WITH THIS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS INTERNATIONAL SITUATION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 80, July 17, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ARAB IMPERIALISM

By Chuck Morse



PALESTINIAN ARAB ACTS OF TERROR AGAINST ISRAEL -- AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC JIHAD AGAINST THE WEST & OTHER NON-MUSLIM CULTURES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 52, May 14, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:
KILLING & HATING JEWS

By Alan Caruba



ISRAELI JEWS VERSUS PALESTINIAN ARAB TERRORISTS -- SHOULD ISRAEL ANNEX THE DISPUTED TERRITORIES?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 51, May 12, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL SHOULD ANNEX THE DISPUTED TERRITORIES

By Chuck Morse



THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT -- THE ARABS' DETERMINATION TO DRIVE ISRAEL INTO THE SEA
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 50, May 10, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PALESTINIAN ARABS WANT THE JEWS GONE

By Ray Thomas



THE STATE OF ISRAEL VERSUS THE RADICAL ISLAMIST/LEFTIST AXIS OF EVIL
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 49, May 8, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL CONFRONTS THE RADICAL ISLAMIST/LEFTIST
AXIS OF EVIL

By Chuck Morse



ISRAEL'S WAR ON PALESTINIAN TERRORISM -- THE FAULTY & BIASED ANALYSIS OF A NORWEGIAN CHARLATAN
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 48, May 6, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISRAEL'S MILITARY RESPONSE TO PALESTINIAN TERRORISM:
CAN THIS RESPONSE BE JUSTIFIED?

By Vin Suprynowicz



YASIR ARAFAT, PALESTINIAN TERRORISM, & THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- WHAT THE ISRAELI NATION MUST DO TO SAVE ITSELF FROM EXTINCTION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 47, April 29, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ARAFAT & HITLER

By Samuel L. Blumenfeld



YASIR ARAFAT & THE PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS -- MUST ISRAEL & THE WEST CONTINUE TO NEGOTIATE WITH ARAFAT, OR SHOULD HE BE ELIMINATED?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 46, April 26, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ARAFAT MUST GO!

By Alan Caruba



PALESTINIAN TERRORISM & THE RIGHT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL TO DEFEND ITSELF
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 45, April 24, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ARAFAT APOLOGISTS

By Marti Stapp Linder



THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS -- U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY AS A DRASTIC SOLUTION TO A PERSISTING & EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 43, April 20, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AS THE SMOKE CLEARS IN ISRAEL:
A RADICAL SOLUTION TO A RADICAL PROBLEM

By J.J. Johnson



UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL LEADERSHIP -- DEALING WITH ISRAEL & THE ISLAMIC WORLD
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 38, April 11, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE U.S.A., ISRAEL, & THE ISLAMIC WORLD:

WHEN NOTHING MAKES SENSE,
THERE'S USUALLY A REASON

By Dorothy Anne Seese



ISRAEL, YASIR ARAFAT, & THE PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume III, Issue # 41, December 11, 2001

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ROUND TWO IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM:
YASSER ARAFAT & THE PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS

By Vin Suprynowicz



THE HOLY LAND & THE WAR ON ISLAMIC TERRORISM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume III, Issue # 39, December 9, 2001

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DEATH STALKS THE HOLY LAND

By Alan Caruba





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