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Cornell: After Ariel Sharon: A Prognosis for Israel
by Ben Birnbaum
 While Sharon's prognosis is dire, the Kadima party's is excellent. The party passed its first test by avoiding a power squabble and rallying around Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as its new leading man. Whether or not the comatose Sh aron knows it, the torch has already been passed from him to Olmert and a new generation of Israeli leaders. And given the existential threats their country now faces, they have no time to stop running. (Cornell Sun)
Dartmouth: Loving the Bomb: How Palestinian Society Glorifies Extremism
by Ilya Feoktistov
 There is overwhelming evidence showing that the majority of Palestinian society, as well as large portions of Arab and Muslim society, are extreme in their hatred, in their intolerance, and in their blood-lust. They do not think suicide bombings are evil. In fact, they celebrate and honor those who commit them. Like it or not, we are in the same boat with Israel, adrift amid a storm of Islamist triumphalism and Arab nationalism. (The Dartmouth)
Georgetown: Apartheid Analogy Inappropriate
by J.P. Medved, Letter to the Editor
I just read the viewpoint (“Israeli-Palestinian  Conflict Parallels African Apartheid”) and was dumbfounded. Could a student at Georgetown, usually considered to be home to a fairly bright group of kids, really be espousing such ill-founded views? It takes a heavy dose of self-delusion not to understand that the Israeli wall is not to “control” Palestinians, but to stop Palestinian terrorists and suicide bombers from killing more innocent Israelis. (The Hoya)
Pennsylvania: Anti-Semitic Smoke Screens
by Joshua Diskin
 The Iranian president’s words are dangerous. His remarks are part of a new, systematically enforced form of anti-Semitic rhetoric that pervades itself in anti-Israel sentiments. So how do we distinguish benign criticisms of Israel from pernicious anti-Semitism of the Ahmadinejad variety? There are simple ways to discern the legitimate criticism against Israel from outright anti-Semitism that uses politics as a smoke-screen. (Penn Indy)
York: Free Speech is Great, But Are People Listening?
by Jesse Paikin
 Edward Corrigan's letter to President Lorna Marsden regarding the university's alleged "suppress[ion of the] discussion of Palestinian human rights" is a fine example of the right to free speech that we so value at our university and in our country. It is also an example of the drivel masquerading as newsworthiness that so frequently invades Excalibur. The ongoing Israel vs. Palestine debate has apparently shifted from the rotunda of Vari Hall to the pages of Excalibur. It is not hard to ponder why. (Excalibur)
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Dartmouth: The Justice of Retaliation
by Max Bryer
Spielberg should be commended for his most recent film, the gripping "Munich. "If nothing else, "Munich" serves as an incentive to those who are in the position to work toward peace. The film seems to cry out that an agreement must be reached in order to put an end to the violence. (The Dartmouth)
Georgetown: Keep Free Speech at GU
 Pro-Israeli students and student groups, including the Georgetown Israel Alliance, should be praised for supporting their fellow Hoyas' freedom to host the PSM by not calling for the cancellation of the event. Likewise, all members of the Georgetown community should support pro-Israeli students and groups as they prepare their own upcoming campus initiatives, including an event called , which will feature Palestinian and Israeli women discussing prospects for regional peace. (The Hoya)
Indiana: Tick... Tick... Tick...
 Seemingly inspired by a certain mean-spirited Austrian with sillier facial hair, Iranian President Ahmadinejad has called for the annihilation of Israel, believes the Holocaust was "a myth" and talks about a final conflict with the West. Between letting Iran's fanatics have their way and all-out war, we need to try what cards we have left - and one such card is the possibility that the majority of the Iranian people like these loonies even less than we do. (Indiana Digital Student)
Wisconsin: Iran Key Concern for Israel
by Josh Moskowitz
  Speaking at the “World Without Zionism” conference last October, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a number of representatives from the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad that “Israel must be wiped off the map.” There is little doubt where Iran’s nuclear weapons will be aimed. There is little doubt that they will be placed on missiles adorned with banners reading, “Israel must be wiped off the map.” There is little doubt that they will seek to destroy major urban areas, possibly precipitating a second Holocaust. (Badger Herald)
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