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News and Opinion Roundup


January 31st, 2007 · Islam, Israel and the Middle East, Judaism, Law and Legal Affairs, Religion, World Affairs

  • Pres­i­dent Bush is not above the law (hear, hear!)
  • A recent essay by the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Com­mit­tee on lib­eral anti-Semitism is pro­vok­ing con­tro­versy
  • Fatah leader Abdal­lah Frangi tells Salon that the vio­lent power strug­gle rag­ing between his party and Hamas is “the worst we’ve expe­ri­enced in Pales­tin­ian history.”
  • Michael Fre­und, cit­ing sur­vey data, writes in the Jerusalem Post that sup­port for vio­lent jihad against the West is increas­ing through­out the Mus­lim world
  • Car­o­line Glick writes that the Pales­tini­ans already have a state — and that it is a nightmare