Re: "Constructive Engagement -- Measuring ripple effects of Obama's Cairo speech," Tuesday Editorials. President Barack Obama's speech was a speech of hope and a new beginning. He presented a message to all of the Muslim worlds, guiding them to a...
Re: "Holy Land Justice -- Defendants got the sentences they deserved," Friday Editorials. The 20-year timeline that you provided of the Holy Land Foundation definitely raised some questions for me as to whether justice was served with the imprisonment of...
I would be the last to compare Israeli troops and Hamas fighters in terms of human rights and abiding by the Geneva Conventions. Hamas fighters ride around in ambulances. They take up fighting positions in hospitals and booby trap schools....
Re: "Forcing patrons' hands -- Requiring philanthropists to meet diversity targets is absurd, says Heather Mac Donald," last Sunday Points. Thanks for printing Heather Mac Donald's essay on activists' insistence on diversity in the personnel of philanthropic foundations. This is...
Re: "Too easy to pick sides -- Instead, let's focus on the innocents caught in Mideast crossfire, says Keith Brown," Saturday Viewpoints. I agree with Brown's plea to Jews and Arabs to empathize with each other and stop fighting so...
Re: Photo with "As Gaza toll hits 1,000, progress on cease-fire," Thursday news story. The most powerful weapon of Hamas is its "CNN strategy." It provokes Israel by playing Russian roulette with its children, uses its civilians as human shields...
Re: "Stuck in travel hell -- Juan Fernando Gómez is an innocent trapped on the terrorist watch list," last Sunday Points. Gómez's column on civilians traveling as terrorists struck me as both frustrating and disappointing. Onlookers may write it off...
Re: "Who are the real Nazis? Calling Israeli actions Hitlerite helps Hamas defend its own, says Jonah Goldberg," Wednesday Viewpoints. I realize Goldberg isn't the brightest columnist. I'm also guessing he doesn't see the irony: He wrote a book equating...
Re: "Downtown rally opposes Gaza bombing -- Muslim protesters decry it as terrorism; Jewish groups say it's self-defense," Wednesday Metro. For months, Hamas has fired thousands of rockets and missiles into Israel. Finally Israel said, "Enough is enough" and retaliated....
Re: "War then, terrorism now?" by Zoher Bharmal, Monday Letters. In 1948, Egyptian tanks were in al-Majdal and poised to advance on Tel Aviv. The presence of those tanks was the reason rockets were fired. Three years ago, there were...
Re: "Downtown rally opposes Gaza bombing -- Muslim protesters decry it as terrorism; Jewish groups say it's self-defense," Wednesday Metro. Where were these protestors when Hamas was, and still is, raining rockets on civilian centers in Israel? And let's not...
To those who protest Israel's attack on Gaza, consider what the American response would be if 3,000 missiles fell on El Paso. Our troops would be in Mexico immediately, ferreting out the terrorists who launched them. When Hamas agrees to...
That's the advice an unnamed pro-Hamas Muslim demonstrator dispenses rather volubly at a group of pro-Israel protesters, all of whom gathered on Tuesday in downtown Fort Lauderdale to argue over the Gaza War. See this video from the scene; the...
Re: "Israel, Hamas not letting up in attacks -- Death toll climbs as Gaza residents, Israelis endure bombings, missile strikes," Tuesday news story, and "Blood on Hamas' Hands -- Israel right to defend, but cease-fire is needed," Tuesday Editorials. In...
Re: "A battered legacy Israeli -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's two-state plans go up in flames of war, says Jackson Diehl," Tuesday Viewpoints. In Mr. Diehl's invective against Ehud Olmert's premiership, he scorns the current Israeli missile strikes as a...
The U.S. government spent untold millions of dollars and seven years investigating and prosecuting the Holy Land case here in Dallas. Even though the Holy Land funds were allegedly benefiting a group that doesn't target Americans and doesn't stage attacks...
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