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Edward Bernard Glick
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August 7, 2016
Israel Must Stop Waging Tit-for-Tat WarfareDespite maintaining one of the best air forces and armies in the world, Israel persists in fighting tit-for-tat wars rather than crush-or-be-crushed wars. The trouble is that tit-for-tat warfare, especially in the Middle East, does not work.
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March 19, 2016
What Our Mis-educated Younger Generation MissesRecently, Britain’s The Economist magazine began a piece with “One of the perks of getting old is that you are allowed to talk nonsense about the young.” Since I am old, I shall claim my perk.
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June 20, 2015
A suggested aide memoire from the government of Israel to the United Nations secretary generalIt's time for Israel to speak truth to power.
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June 2, 2015
A suggestion for a Palestinian StateAs a matter of fact, the Palestinians already have a state.
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March 29, 2015
Latinos and Americanos: The two societies comparedWhich hemisphere does better in the West – north or south?
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November 28, 2014
Israel has every reason to fear an Iranian nuclear weaponIn 2006 Thomas Friedman of the New York Times wrote: “I'd rather live with a nuclear Iran” because it’s “the wisest thing under the circumstances.” He is profoundly wrong.
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September 8, 2014
Crush or be CrushedIslam does not look kindly upon infidels who lose. I cannot remember the last time Israel's leaders uttered the word victory.
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July 13, 2014
Even if it is no larger than the smallest postage stampOne wonders when the world's non-Muslims will grasp the significance of the postage-stamp metaphor and draw the proper conclusions.
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February 17, 2014
Palestinian Irredentism and the Anti-Israel Double StandardIf the Palestinians want to crush the Israelis and expel their sovereign state from the Middle East, they will have to do it not on the wobbly field of public opinion, but on the only field that really matters
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November 25, 2013
War, Peace, and a Nuclear IranThe just-concluded agreement between Iran and the United States, Rus-sia, China, Britain, France, and Germany raises the question of nuclear war
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July 10, 2013
The Bullet that Brought My Father to AmericaThe debate on amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants brings to mind something that happened to me when I was 16.
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March 22, 2013
Eleanor Roosevelt talks about her husband and the HolocaustIn 1958, Eleanor Roosevelt, the widow of Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, told me about her husband and the Holocaust.
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August 19, 2012
Sayings of My FatherThey might sound better in the original Yiddish, but the wisdom comes through in any language.
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September 26, 2010
Repatriating JobsThis country cannot remain great if most of its workers push paper or conceive, design, and assemble what others produce for it overseas.
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May 31, 2010
Tolerance for me but not for theeVoltaire, who coined the phrase "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it," would have wept if he ever saw Portland.
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May 19, 2010
A lifetime of self reliance and accepting personal responsibilityRecapturing the spirit of citizenship
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April 20, 2010
The Grand Illusions of America's LiberalsAmerica's liberals are consumed with guilt. If not soon purged from our society, their guilt will kill us all.
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March 4, 2010
If the Workers Can't Buy, Their Bosses Can't SellDespite its Puritan origins and its Protestant ethic, the United States is a consumer-driven society.
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December 14, 2009
Uncoupling the U.S. from the U.N.States, like individuals, can be inert. They remain tied to policies and processes long after they have ceased serving their intended purposes.
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October 3, 2009
President PerksHave you ever wondered why our Barack Obama wanted to be president in the first place?
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August 23, 2009
Obama and the Holy LandNo matter what the state of the US economy, there has never been a demand by the American people to halt or diminish US aid to Israel. There is no such demand now.
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May 5, 2009
The President hasn't apologized enoughPresident Barack Obama has not gone far enough in his world apology tour. Here are few more items for which he should apologize.
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January 20, 2009
Israel has lost another warIsrael's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has proved that he is not formed from the same mold as Prime Ministers David Ben Gurion, Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzchak Rabin, or Menachem Begin.
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January 2, 2009
Is the IDF going to lose again?Has the IDF, the vaunted Israeli army, lost its grip and its nerve when fighting terrorists?
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October 12, 2008
Israel doesn't have much time to attack IranIt was in October 2005 that the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, first said that the "Zionist regime" must "be wiped off the face of the Earth." And it was in April 2006 that he called Israel a "fake regime" that "cannot logically continue to live."
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June 17, 2008
How our Marxist faculties got that way (corrected)Straight talk from someone who saw it happen.
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May 14, 2008
Israel's Democratic Garrison State Turns 60With all the uniforms, planes, guns, and tanks, there is no doubt that Israel is militarized. But it is not militaristic.
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December 2, 2007
After Annapolis, what?Despite the conference at the United States Naval Academy, if one looks at the Palestine struggle the way Iran, Hamas, Hizbollah, and Israel's other existential enemies look at it, they are winning and the Zionists are losing.
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July 29, 2007
Let's Hail Those Whom We Really NeedAt first glance, Albert Einstein the physicist seems much more valuable than Joe Smith the plumber. But would we not be better off with more plumbers than physicists? When Einstein's toilets overflowed, he doubtless stood by helplessly
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March 13, 2007
The Darfurians and the SudaneseVisit almost any American church or college these days, and you will be confronted with pleas to "Save Darfur"
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August 3, 2006
Lost Audacity: Once Again a Time for Boldness in Israel -
July 6, 2006
Does World Opinion Really Matter? -
May 17, 2006
Hamas and the Killing of Innocents -
February 25, 2006
How the Israel-Palestine Problem Came to Pass -
December 15, 2005
If 1941 Were 2005 -
September 28, 2005
Winning Hearts and Minds Doesn't Do It -
March 14, 2005
The feminist assault on the English language -
October 19, 2004
The two most terrible countries in the world? -
September 27, 2004
Why so many class traitors vote Republican