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  • Land for peace: A historical perspective

    Martin Sherman|Nov 1, 2019

    (JNS)—“...a military defeat of Israel would mean the physical extinction of a large part of its population and the political elimination of the Jewish state. To lose a single war is to lose everything.”—Yigal Allon, commander of the Palmach and deputy Prime Minister (Labor), 1976 “One does not have to be a military expert to easily identify the critical defects of the armistice lines that existed until June 4, 1967.” — Yigal Allon Since the early 1990s, and certainly since the Oslo process (1993), the “land for peace” principle has bee...

  • What if the Six-Day War never took place?

    Martin Sherman|Jan 11, 2019

    (JNS)—If the “West Bank” was part of the “Hashemite Kingdom” up to 1967, how did it suddenly become the Palestinians’ long-yearned-for homeland which, up until then, they were submissively willing to cede to an alien potentate? Not since the time of Dr. Goebels, head of the Nazi propaganda machine, has there ever been a case in which continual repetition of a lie has born such great fruits... Of all the Palestinian lies, there is no lie greater or more crushing than that which calls for the establishment of a separate Palestinian state in th...

  • Identifying the enemy as the enemy is not 'racism'

    Martin Sherman|Aug 10, 2018

    By Martin Sherman (JNS)—One of the most mendacious and widely propagated myths regarding the Middle East conflict is that Israel’s defensive actions against hostile Arab initiatives—whose sole aim is to murder or maim Jews, simply because they are Jews—constitute “racism.” The apparent reason for these grave accusations is rooted in the fact that some of the coercive measures, necessary for the effectiveness of these defensive Israeli actions, are carried out differentially (and therefore, allegedly, discriminately) against Palestinian...