by Paul Blair | Apr 19, 2002 | POLITICS
Peters’ main contention is that many of the Arabs living in the area that became Israel did not descend from Arabs who had been there “from time immemorial” but were relatively recent arrivals. One indication of this migration, she argues, is that...
by Robert W Tracinski | Apr 18, 2002 | Elections, POLITICS
In one of the great ironies of contemporary politics, Congress [last month] passed an economic “stimulus” package the day after the recession was declared to be over. Obviously, the legislators didn’t really care about stimulating the economy, which...
by Paul Blair | Apr 18, 2002 | POLITICS
The British assumed control of Palestine as a result of World War I; their administration of the territory was later recognized by League of Nations mandate. Peters persistently interprets the Mandate as having the goal of developing a Jewish state in Palestine:...
by Michelle Malkin | Apr 17, 2002 | POLITICS
As I helped my toddler get dressed this morning, in a crisp white T-shirt imprinted with an American flag and a pair of embroidered blue jeans, I couldn’t erase a heinous picture from my mind. It was an Associated Press photo taken Saturday in Berlin, Germany,...
by Paul Blair | Apr 17, 2002 | POLITICS
In 1901, Israel Zangwill wrote, “Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country.”1 Joan Peters takes up this view, claiming a “profusion of evidence of an uninhabited Palestine [p.170],” and citing many...
by Charles Josh | Apr 17, 2002 | Business
Many Objectivists read the book American Steel about Ken Iverson’s amazing corporate leadership in developing new technology for steel producers when Big Steel was floundering under old ideas and crippling unions. Dr. Edwin Locke also made many mentions of him,...
by Larry Elder | Apr 16, 2002 | POLITICS
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif. — offended! At a meeting last month, Los Angeles Police Commission head Rick Caruso allegedly referred to Waters as a “bitch.” Others attended the meeting, but no one confirmed or denied that Caruso made the...
by Jeff Jacoby | Apr 16, 2002 | POLITICS, Terrorism
If the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result, Secretary of State Powell’s mission to the Middle East is crazy. “However long the Israeli incursions continue,” he said on Thursday, “the...
by Paul Blair | Apr 16, 2002 | POLITICS
In 1984 Joan Peters’ book From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine appeared to much critical acclaim. The book won the National Jewish Book Award; the New Republic said it would “change the mind of our generation.”...
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