Tag Archive for 'middle east' at 100 Treatises

Tag Archive for 'middle east'

Israel Does Not Need Peace as Long as it has America

March 24th, 2010 by Justin

// The recent actions of the Benjamin Netanyahu government can be characterized with a good Yiddish word: chutzpah. Admittedly, the Israelis have little reason to believe that any consequences are in store, given the history of their relations with the US. And cautious optimism is still very much warranted when it comes to any analysis [...]

Tags: apartheid, arabs, benjamin netanyahu, foreign policy, israel, jerusalem, jewish state, jews, middle east, palestine. Political Add a comment

Israel and the Real Basis for the “Right to Exist”

December 9th, 2009 by Justin

// The idea of many is that Israel “has a right to exist,” which really means it “has a right to continue to exist” (since something that doesn’t exist cannot possibly have any rights, logically). On what basis? At bottom, the thinking goes, it is on the basis that the Jews constitute a distinctive ethnic [...]

Tags: ethnicity, israel, jews, judaism, middle east, nation-state, palestine, zionism. Political,Secularism and Religion 4 Comments