The following letters appear in this week’s Australian Jewish News: INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY I was under no illusions that Antony Loewenstein’s book would turn out to be fair, or indeed accurate, after hosting him in Israel when he did his “research”. I place the word in inverted commas, since it was all too apparent that Loewenstein…
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Osama, please take your seat
Australia’s domestic airport security leaves much to be desired. Calling Mr Al Kyder?
Ask some more questions
Another “terrorism” case falls flat on its face: Three Palestinian-American men who were found with nearly 1,000 cell phones were charged Wednesday with federal fraud conspiracy and money laundering after a county prosecutor backed off from terrorism charges filed earlier. Maruan Muhareb, 18; Adham Othman, 21; and Louai Othman, 23, all of the Dallas area,…
Killing Americans
The “Coalition” could win the war in Iraq, but a few niggling issues remain: The number of roadside bombs planted in Iraq rose in July to the highest monthly total of the war, offering more evidence that the anti-American insurgency has continued to strengthen despite the killing of the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Along…
Human rights for all
Philip Mendes is a self-described left-wing Australian Jew, academic and commentator (he also recently reviewed My Israel Question for the Sydney Morning Herald.) In this week’s New Matilda he manages to prove the utter ineffectiveness of much of the Australian Jewish Left in relation to Israel and Palestine: Andrew West’s article in New Matilda (issue…
Ignore the signs
Donald J. Boudreaux is chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University. He is therefore highly qualified to write on…global warming: Undoubtedly, most people who seek government action to fight global warming are “reasonable.” They envision no drastic changes to our civilization. And I concede that, in principle, cost-effective steps to reduce global…
Israel 0, Arab world 1
Robert Fisk, The Independent, August 16: In the sparse Baathist drawing rooms of Damascus, reality often seems a long way away. But it was a sign of the times that President Bashar al-Assad was able to bring the great and the good of Damascus to their feet by the simple token of telling the truth…
Mark Steyn and the conservatives – a night to remember
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: When a right-wing think tank like The Centre for Independent Studies hosts an event titled “It’s Not ”˜Them’, It’s Us: The Need to Regain Confidence in Western Culture” – and invites conservative columnist Mark Steyn, Murdoch commentator and ABC board member Janet Albrechtsen and foreign policy…