Monthly Archives: October 2010

The Truth Cannot Be Disguised

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Rabbi Michael (Micky) Boyden

Anyone who is honest about the Israel/Palestinian conflict recognizes at this juncture that the current round of peace talks has failed. President Obama may wish to keep the blunt reality under wraps at this time out of domestic political considerations, … Continue reading →

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Recognizing Israel as a Jewish State

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Rabbi Michael (Micky) Boyden

49% of Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, would agree to recognize Israel as a Jewish state as part of a peace agreement establishing a Palestinian state, while 48% object. Such are the results of a … Continue reading →

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Ahmadinejad’s Visit to Lebanon

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Rabbi Michael (Micky) Boyden

In a speech in southern Lebanon this evening (Thursday), Iran’s President Ahmadinejad stated that “the world should know that eventually the Zionists will be forced to go and will not last long. They are enemies of humanity and will have … Continue reading →

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More on the Turkish Flotilla

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Rabbi Michael (Micky) Boyden

In a TV interview, Turkish journalist Şefik Dinç, who was on the Mavi Marmara and wrote a book about it, said that no shots were fired from the Israeli helicopters and that IDF soldiers did not open fire until their … Continue reading →

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Never is a Very Long Time

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Rabbi Kaufman

“Never” is a very long time. That is exactly when the Palestinians say that they will recognize Israel as the state for the Jewish people. Never. Ever. But here, the Palestinians make it clear that they are not speaking only … Continue reading →

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Palestinian Refusal to Negotiate

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Rabbi Michael (Micky) Boyden

A colleague, who was one of the signatories to the J Street Open Letter to the community entitled “Our Hope Remains”, has, as I would have expected, argued the Palestinian case convincingly for refusing to participate in direct negotiations as … Continue reading →

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What do the Palestinians really want?

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Rabbi Michael (Micky) Boyden

The decision by the Palestinian Authority, with the backing of the Arab League, to suspend direct negotiations with Israel until such time as the latter places a freeze upon construction, is a strange response coming from a people yearning to … Continue reading →

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Yom Kippur and World Opinion

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Rabbi Michael (Micky) Boyden

Many of us will never forget that fateful Yom Kippur in 1973 when, in the middle of services, the message started going around that Israel was at war. On a day when the streets of Israel are normally silent, the … Continue reading →

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