IJN Editorial Staff
How many Palestinian refugees: 5,000,000 or 30,000?
IJN Editorial StaffMay 31, 2012
When the Palestinian Authority lifts the primary ideological tenet right out of the Zionist playbook and demands a “right of return,” the PA says that five million...
The real Hollywood ‘A list’
IJN Editorial StaffMay 31, 2012
The Hollywood A list refers to celebrities who can nab the best table with a slight nod, attract paparazzi like mosquitoes in July and are invited to the hottest...
When yizkor and Memorial Day coincide
IJN Editorial StaffMay 24, 2012
For American Jews, this coming Monday, May 28, is a double holiday. In a rare coincidence, Memorial Day and the second day of Shavuot fall on the same day. Over...
Taliban poisons the well
IJN Editorial StaffMay 24, 2012
On Wednesday, May 23, the Taliban used poison spray to incapacitate 122 students and three teachers at an all-girls school in Talokhan, Afghanistan. It wasn’t the...
Democracy in the Arab world: Don’t hold your breath
IJN Editorial StaffMay 24, 2012
As we go to press, Egypt is voting for a president. In a sense, the outcome is irrelevant. It is certainly no guarantee of democracy in Egypt. That is because […]
Vidal Sassoon, not just appearances
IJN Editorial StaffMay 17, 2012
When Vidal Sassoon passed away on May 5, the world mourned the revolutionary celebrity stylist who transformed the average woman with one deft swing of the scissors....
New government in Israel; new chance for peace?
IJN Editorial StaffMay 17, 2012
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government marginalizes Israeli political parties who oppose concessions to the Palestinians and welcomes Kadima, the largest...
Never again? Don’t ask the Syrians
IJN Editorial StaffMay 10, 2012
We admit, it is difficult to swallow the objections to genocide by the president of the Syrian American Council and its spokesman, Dr. Mahmoud Khattab of Chicago,...
Second Amendment does not ban common sense
IJN Editorial StaffMay 10, 2012
Even if we concede that the Second Amendment permits individuals, not only militias, to carry guns; even if we concede that it’s quite nice to have an armed person in...
Discontinuous hate crime laws
IJN Editorial StaffMay 03, 2012
We admit it’s a lost cause in our Balkanized world in which humanity recedes as the number and the type of victims become specified ad infinitum. Nonetheless, we feel...
