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A world without Israel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 28, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern The world is full of Israel-haters. I don't know why. It probably has something to do with anti-Semitism – and even more to do with lack of knowledge and understanding about the Middle East. So, I thought it might be a good exercise to consider what the world would be like if Israel had never been reborn in 1948. Let's suppose that United Nations vote to partition the Palestinian region into two – one Arab and one Jewish – went differently. Let's imagine the Soviet Union or some...

Delegitimize the debate By Aluf Benn "A world without Israel," screams the cover of the new January 2005 issue of the American magazine, Foreign Policy. Imagine that Israel never existed, asks the subheading, would that solve the problems in the Middle East? Would America then be loved by the Muslim world? Not at all, responds the author of the article, Josef Joff, the publisher and editor of the German weekly Die Zeit. The problems of the region, the poverty, ignorance and political oppression, did not come about as a response to Zionism and the establishment of Israel. The Arabs...