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UCLA: Different Tack on Campus Challenge
by Chaim Seidler-Feller
 Jews are actually experiencing a Golden Age at American universities and that the general atmosphere at the most prestigious schools is positive and supportive of Jewish interests. Rather than training students to strike back and retake the campus, we ought to develop a strategy consistent with the campus reality that is appropriately creative, intelligent and nonconfrontational. In short, we should use our sekhel (common sense) and not only our prideful emotions. The writer is director of the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA. (Los Angeles Jewish Journal)
Indiana: Break the Cycle of Hostility
by David A. Nosko
 The difference between the 1948 and 1967 border has become a thin line between life and death between Palestine and Israel. The world is plagued with such misunderstandings and cycles of violence, and continued WMD proliferation - whether a missile or human suicide bomber - can only aggravate the continued genocide of humanity. (Indiana Daily Student News)
Marian College: Palestinians Undermine Chance for Peace - Again
by Pierre M. Atlas
 Palestinian rocket fire into Israel has increased dramatically since Israel withdrew from the Gaza strip last summer. Rather than seizing the opportunity to build a nascent Palestinian state in Gaza, the militants have used this liberated territory as a launching pad for attacks. The kidnapping of the soldier was the last straw for Israel, which has responded with intense - and arguably disproportionate - force. But these retaliations were provoked by the actions of Palestinian militant factions. Professor Atlas is Director of the Franciscan Center for Global Studies at Marian College. (Indystar)
Tel Aviv: Myths of Pullout and Terror
by Yitzhak Ben-Yisrael
 Contrary to the belief of part of the left wing, pulling out of territories does not put an end to terror in the short term. Contrary to the right wing's belief, neither does the use of force. Terror is the Arab sector's main tactic in its struggle against the Jewish community in the Land of Israel since the 1920s, and we should not delude ourself that it will stop by itself. For almost 100 years, we have tried everything, from using force to far reaching concessions; yet the terror persists. (Ha'aretz)
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Haifa: Aussie Student Under Fire
 When some of the 200 foreign students who haven't packed up and gone home started meeting today, there was talk that two Katyusha rockets had landed not far away in the upmarket suburb of Carmel, a popular nightclub and cafe destination. Conversations now center around what new event would cause the hangers-on to leave, to give in to their parents' wishes and pack up and go. One of my flatmates, Aaron Friedman, a 20-year-old from Texas is partying on regardless. The author is a journalist on leave to study Hebrew at Haifa University. (Sunday Telegraph-Australia)
James Madison: Israel: "Act of War"
by J. Peter Pham & Michael I. Krauss
 Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Sinioura's claim that his government was "not aware of and does not take responsibility for [Hizballah's attack on Israel], nor endorses what happened" at what he conceded was "the international border" of another sovereign nation rings hollow considering his was the first ever government in Beirut to bring Hizballah into its cabinet. The Hizballah leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, who claimed responsibility for the attack on Israel, was Mr. Sinioura's chief interlocutor in the negotiations to set up his cabinet last summer. (TCS Daily)
Stanford: What's Behind the Dislike of Israel?
by Victor Davis Hanson
 Israel is always seen as a special exception that somehow deserves what it gets. Other states can retaliate with impunity, brutally killing thousands of Muslim terrorists, while Israel is condemned when it takes out a few dozen. In some ways, Israel's values and success most resemble the United States. And that raises a final question: Is Israel hated by the world for supporting us or are we hated for supporting it? Or is it both? Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. (Union Leader)
Toronto: Militias Hjack Agenda
by Janice Gross Stein
 Can those who want a truce, who fear the consequences of prolonged violence, push the militias to agree to some kind of prisoner exchange? And can Jerusalem swallow the fact of a prisoner exchange if it does not have to face the appearance of one? Sooner or later, such an exchange will happen. But the harm has been done. The militias have demonstrated forcibly their capacity to disrupt a political process. The writer is director of the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto. (Toronto Star)
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