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When Shukairy admitted calling to throw the Jews into sea [Shukeiri, Shuqayri PLO] The New Middle East, Issues 16-39, New Middle East 1970, p.4: Mr. Shukairy claims that when in his days of glory he publicly advocated the liquidation of Israel and "sweeping of the Jews into the sea," he reflected the accepted official Arab outlook, an outlook that was changed only by the outcome of the war of 1967. Mr Shukairy is indignant that such extremism should be fathered on him alone ...https://books.google.com/books?id=RmYeAAAAMAAJ&q=shukairy+jews+into+sea'Arab Guerilla Power,' 1967-1972, Edgar O'Ballance, 1973, p.37: Shukairy sank into obscurity, and later (in May 1971)...

Nothing is easier than to second-guess decisions made in wartime. Anyone who has bothered to read the history of wars knows that very few wars have been without disastrous surprises, often on both sides. It is not that the people in charge are stupid. Too many things are unpredictable in war, despite politicians who demand timetables, as if running a war is like running a train. We can now look at the Iraq war with hindsight, as no President or Secretary of Defense could when making decisions that had to be made. Still, it can be useful to determine with...

Anti-Semitism can appear in many forms, many disguises. Its latest camouflage can be seen in “The Israel Lobby,” an article in the March 23 London Review of Books by Political Science Professor John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Dean Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. This article is an extract from “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” their March 2006 self-published academic “working paper” that is neither peer reviewed nor published in any scholarly journal. Although ballyhooed as a work by two major scholars, they acknowledge that it “should not...

Harry Reid, Carl Levin and Jack Reed were propped up on Wednesday morning to try to stop the gaining momentum of President Bush rallying the country behind the troops and the mission in Iraq. If you witnessed the mess, you already know they failed. It was depressing to watch, and resembled a funeral. If this is the Democratic leadership that is set to fight the message of victory, they are in a lot of trouble. Who would line up to follow these three and their absolute depression and defeat?

The former head of Mossad, the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service, says we are in the throes of a new world war where the objective of the terrorist is not regime change or territorial gains but despatching western civilisation into history. Efraim Halevy, who recently stepped down as the head of the Israel National Security Council and national security adviser to the Israeli prime minister, said we were in for the long haul and must brace ourselves for more that will follow. Halevy, who was also an Israeli ambassador to the European Union, warned: "Thursday's attacks on the London transport system...