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In response to Peacemongers and Jihadeers by Yashiko Sagamori ( a very exceptional writer), a sincere Muslim wrote, hello,i am rosli from Malaysia and i am a muslim.i had read what you had writen in the thinkisrael.com webpage.i totally disaggre the way you mention about us muslim.i think that you did not understand the true meaning of jihad.the best thing to describe islam is “islam is all about peace”.the word islam itself mean peace. i want to give you a suggestion if you want to know islam better you must try to read the translation of the holy quran and...

War and Peace by Yashiko Sagamori Three weeks ago, while discussing Iran's nuclear ambitions, I wrote: If one Middle Eastern country is not allowed to have nuclear arms, then the same must be true for another, unless we decide to resort to discrimination and profiling. And since we have denounced any form of discrimination against all enemies, foreign and domestic, it's not that difficult to predict where IAEA will pitch its tents next. In Israel, of course. A few days later, as if on cue, Jack Straw, the British foreign minister said: If you want to see a nuclear-free Middle...

On April 19, Haaretz startled its readers with the following bit of news. The European Union will not consider removing Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations so long as it refrains from demonstrating "respect for human rights". Here is a simple sanity test: is it good or bad? The answer is, this is very good for everybody. This is why it's good for the Jews. First, it shows Eurabia's opposition to a terrorist organization created specifically for the purpose of killing Jews. Second, it indirectly acknowledges that Jews are also human. Can we possibly ask for more without becoming...

have an older friend, a Russian immigrant, who grew up in a Jewish family that was unobservant almost to the point of atheism, but keenly aware of their Jewishness, mostly due to the anti-Semitism permeating everything around them. As a very young child, my friend learned that Jews were a tiny, insignificant, completely unnecessary bunch of misfits that could be credited with absolutely nothing of value for humankind, while being directly responsible for countless unspecified troubles they had caused. Television was unavailable in the region where my friend's family lived at the time, but the walls of their tiny apartment...