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Neither Komen nor Egypt pink with embarrassment

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure planned a conference on breast cancer in Egypt. Two Israeli women were invited. Egypt and Israel are at peace. Breast cancer, like any...

Bullets don’t kill; ideas do

The Yankees won the World Series, whether the Philadelphia papers reported it that way or not. The shooter at Fort Hood was an Islamic terrorist, whether he had any...

Why Obama is flummoxed over Israel and the Palestinians

He went for the symbol. Not the substance. Now, he has neither. The “he” is President Barack Obama. The symbol is Israeli settlements on the West Bank. The substance...

The disturbing case of Jack Teitel

He smuggled a handgun into Israel aboard a British Airways flight. He used the gun to kill a Jerusalem cab driver in 1997. Two months later he killed one person...

All that lying about the Armenian genocide did not help

We could use the word “diplomacy” or “politics” or “ignorance” or “objectivity” or “fairness.” In truth, there is only one word: lie. For many years, some...

Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall

This is certainly the year for anniversaries: 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe; 80 years since the notorious pogrom in...

To blame the Times, Post or FoxNews is not presidential

The president of the United States rightly asks to be taken as the president — the leader of the country, not a party partisan — when he wishes to address […]

Justice Scalia’s remarks lie somewhere between the obtuse and the ignorant

According to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, it is an “outrageous conclusion” that a war memorial featuring a cross honors only Christian war dead. His statement...

Wolf criers in Fort Collins

The shepherd boy sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. He was bored. To amuse himself, the boy cried wolf. “The wolf is chasing the sheep!” Well, the...

Peace or symbolism

In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are facts on the ground and facts in the air. On the ground, relations between Israel and the Palestinians are better than any...