Rachel Neuwirth
www.MiddleEastSoluitons.org
Articles by Rachel Neuwirth
May 28, 2009
This is what PM Netanyahu should have said to President Obama when they met on May 18, and what everyone who respects rational thought would have approved.
March 13, 2009
Yes, the truth was the first casualty of the Gaza war; Israel´s reputation, already bleeding for years, was the second. Can the wounds inflicted on either of these innocent victims ever be healed?
February 17, 2009
Let´s go through some of the biggest media lies one by one about the war in Gaza, and then expose the truth.
February 13, 2009
Let´s go through some of the biggest media lies one by one about the war in Gaza, and then expose the truth.
February 03, 2009
Hamas chose quite deliberately to dig in heavily populated areas, to fire at Israeli soldiers from schools, hospitals, and private homes, to booby-trap these schools, hospitals, and to offer fierce armed resistance in densely populated areas.
January 30, 2009
"How are the intellectual needs of students served when the panelists at a symposium, comprised of professors, present only one side to the conflict between Israel and Gaza?" - www.FamilySecurityMatters.org
January 27, 2009
When falsehoods, malice and cowardice about facing the truth all join together, it can only be called hateful propaganda.
December 14, 2008
The Mumbai massacre offers yet another reminder that Jewish "peaceniks," despite all their moralistic and idealistic blather, have hearts of stone.
September 19, 2008
A democracy cannot make rational decisions without at least some degree of civility and rationality in public debate. Ultimately, exempting public speakers from all civil liability for malicious lies and verbal abuse threatens democracy as much as government suppression of free speech.
July 11, 2008
I was privileged this week to preview, before its release to the public, what may well prove to be a masterpiece of the documentary film-making art—a new look at the Biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt in the light of contemporary archeology and politics in the Middle East.
Filmmaker...
May 15, 2008
The British Created the Arab-Isarel Conflict
April 14, 2008
The overwhelming preponderance of the evidence strongly indicates that it was Arab, not Israeli, actions that were the primary cause of the displacement of Palestinian Arabs during the war.
March 12, 2008
We Americans, whether Jewish, Christian and even Muslim, cannot separate our own freedom and security from that of Israel.
February 04, 2008
The entire body of the Jewish people today -- in Israel, in Europe, in America, in Australia and New Zealand, and throughout the world -- is in grave danger. Our very existence as a people and as a faith is in jeopardy. The threat to our survival has two components to it: the external siege being wa...
June 08, 2007
Historian James M. McPherson's magnificent collection of essays This Mighty Scourge; Perspectives on the Civil War contains an essay on General William Tecumseh Sherman's famous, or infamous, "march through Georgia " that sheds light on the success of his march in bringing victory, and peace, to the...
January 08, 2008
A media and propaganda campaign has been under way since the Annapolis "peace" conference to legitimate the longstanding demands made on behalf of the Palestinian "Arab refugees" -- meaning in practice the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of refugees -- from the 1948 Arab-Israel war of sixty ye...
November 23, 2007
A recent e-mail exchange with one faculty member of UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES), Ra’anan Boustan, an Assistant Professor of Early Judaism and Ancient Mediterranean Religions, illuminates the wall of resistance that members of American academe, especially those engaged in Middle Eas...
November 04, 2007
An academic golden anniversary [1] should be celebrated with pride. Pride in past achievements; pride in the excellence of faculty; pride in the quality of their work. It is also the opportunity to reflect on possible shortcomings since critical self-evaluation is the best guarantor of future progre...
October 29, 2007
On Sept. 18 of this year, I attended a joint lecture at the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (a Jewish-funded institution that is owned and managed by UCLA) by Professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer (W & M). The duo summarized their much-heralded indictment of Israel and her American, espec...
October 04, 2007
This is perhaps the most difficult column that we have had to write, because we have no choice but to rehearse facts that will be painful and unwelcome to many people with whom we are in general agreement and who are generally in the same political “camp” as us.
This includes fellow Americans wh...
August 27, 2007
In an earlier column we pointed out that the regime of Saddam Hussein did indeed possess the so-called “WMD” prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 (by “WMD” we mean chemical and biological weapons; as far as we know, Saddam never possessed nuclear weapons, thanks to Israel’s successful air str...
July 10, 2007
INTRODUCTION
The references cited in this article strongly suggest that:
1. WMD did indeed exist inside Iraq before the war.
2. The weapons inspectors were both fooled and bribed to ignore evidence.
3. Massive amounts of WMD were removed to known locations in Syria just prior to the w...
June 08, 2007
Historian James M. McPherson's magnificent collection of essays This Mighty Scourge; Perspectives on the Civil War contains an essay on General William Tecumseh Sherman's famous, or infamous, "march through Georgia " that sheds light on the success of his march in bringing victory, and peace, to the...
May 30, 2007
Dr. Tashbih Sayyed, an American Muslim hero, is no longer with us. Tashbih (64) was laid to rest in peace at the Harbor Lawn Mount Olive Memorial Park, Costa Mesa, California. American flags were on almost every grave. They also were hoisted high above the roadways. The wind was lightly blowing in a...
May 18, 2007
I have been reading a brilliant and edifying book, This Mighty Scourge; Perspectives on the Civil War, by America's leading Civil War historian, James M. McPherson (Oxford University Press, 2007). It has many lessons to teach America and Israel in our own day.
McPherson describes how extremely u...
March 19, 2007
The big question concerning Iran is just how close they are to having a nuclear weapon. Some officials assure us that it will require 5-10 years before they produce a bomb. Making such a confident assertion is strange for at least three reasons.
1. Our intelligence people admit that they lack hum...
March 04, 2007
With the revival of anti-Semitism as a global phenomenon, everything old is new again. A new Holocaust is threatened in Iran, a former top military leader and presidential candidate speaks in code of the dark power of New York money circles, and now, shockingly, the ancient blood libel against the J...
March 04, 2007
The most potent weapon in the arsenal of the Arab and Islamist extremists seeking the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people has always been, not bombs, not guns, not missiles, not aircraft, not even the barbarism of suicide-homicide bombers,--but propaganda. Their massive and unrelenting propa...
February 07, 2007
Hussam Ayloush [1], the director of the California branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) [2] is fond of comparing Israelis to Nazis and Israel to Nazi Germany. For example, he appeared on a TV talk show [3] during the Hezb'allah-Israel war of 2006 and compared Israel's acts of s...
February 01, 2007
Almost everyone involved in diplomacy aimed at a peaceful resolution of the Arab-Israel conflict thinks that the solution is a "two-state solution" -a state of Israel and a state of Palestine, living in mutual harmony, side by side, without terror or conflict between them. President Bush, Prime M...
January 25, 2007
Saree Makdisi [1], an English and Comparative Literature professor at UCLA, wrote an article [2] in support of former President Jimmy Carter's accusation of Israel as an apartheid state. There is an eerie consistency in Makdisi's ideas and writing style. His anchor point is always the indisputable v...
January 05, 2007
A professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, Saree Makdisi [1], appears to have an axe to grind. He does not say it openly but he is probably unhappy (or at least he should be) with the true face of the Arab Palestinian movement and looks for a scapegoat to divert the issue and vent ...
October 26, 2006
Professor Rashid Khalidi raises a very pertinent question in his article Unwritten History, recently published in the Boston Globe. In essence, he laments that the Palestinians have not written down their own history and he observes that their failure to do so has made their claim for Palestinian ...