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Case Western: Israel Has Right to Defend Itself
by Boris Shporkin
 With regard to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, let's get a few things straight. First of all, it's the Arab-Israeli conflict. And when Israel is attacked, it has a right to defend itself because no one else will. If you're out there thinking that the Israel-loving hypocritical poet laureate of peace known as the United Nations is going to step in, think again. Israel is the only country out of the 185 member nations of the UN that is ineligible to serve on the UN Security Council. And let's not forget UN Resolution 3379: "Zionism is a form of racism." Besides, how effective was the UN in the past ten years in anything it has done? (Observer)
Georgetown: Let Humanity Trump Conflict
by Abed Z. Bhuyan
 With a hint of an accent he introduced himself as Dan and said he was from Israel. When I asked what he did for a living, he quietly pointed to the front page of The New York Times and said he was an Israeli soldier. He arrived in the States just two days before hostilities began. Earlier this week, the Students for Justice in Palestine invited the Georgetown-Israel Alliance to a prayer for peace. For this, both organizations deserve credit for putting aside their strongly-held political differences to come together as members of this campus community. The writer is the President of the Muslim Students Association. (The Hoya)
Louisiana Tech: Middle East Needs Another Hero for Peace
by Wiley Hilburn
 What would it take to bring a permanent peace to the Middle East? The question is simple. The answer is impossibly simple. What it would take is a transcendent act of personal leadership that would be almost - if not - suicidal in its broad nobility and purity. It would be an act that would at once rise above Biblical hatreds and racism and death worship that now pass for commerce in the region. Suppose Fuad Siniora, prime minister of Lebanon, suddenly flew to Israel with a peace offer for the Jewish republic. (Shreveport Times)
Northern Illinois: Do Your Part to Support Israel
by Alex Katay
 The hatred for Jewish people has been disguised as hatred for Israel. Many people, from the United Nations to protesters here in the U.S., claim they are not anti-Semitic; they are "anti-Zionist." However, there is no difference. The state of Israel was established to provide a safe homeland for Jews worldwide after the atrocities of the Holocaust. One needs only to look at the reason for the state's existence to see if there is a difference between anti-Zionist and anti-Semitism. Fortunately, the United States government is the strongest friend of Israel in the world, lending it support whenever possible. Yet, it is still not enough. (Northern Star)
Yale: Conflicting Clash Styles Fuel Mideast War
by Noah Lawrence
 In one speech, Nasrallah explained a great deal about this summer’s savage Mideast war. Many “freedom fighters” wage guerrilla campaigns, seeking an occupier’s liberation. You may not agree with the tactic, but you can sympathize with the oppressed people in the story. This summer’s campaign is not one of those stories. Terrorists like Nasrallah may love that the Arab-Israeli conflict preserves the chance to destroy Israel, perfecting their bloody machismo. But Israelis loathe the conflict for blocking their dream: to get on with their lives. (Yale Daily News)
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Illinois - Chicago: Terrorist Group Victorious in War Against Israel
by Christopher Skeet
 If Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah can dupe an entire subcontinent into believing that a shattered, reoccupied Lebanon is proof of victory, so be it. A few more Hizballah "victories" and Israel will own the entire Arabian Peninsula. But let's get serious. Let's assume that Hizballah's survival at least handed them an important propaganda victory over Israel. This assumption is proving accurate, but at most is a short term gain. This war has taught Israel some very important lessons. (Chicago Flame)
James Madison: The Way to Clean Up the Middle East
by Craig Finkelstein
 The main event of this summer was a war between Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East, and Hezbollah, a U.S. Department of State-designated terrorist organization committed to the destruction of both Israel and the United States. If Hezbollah was not removed the first time when the international community called for it, why would it be removed this time? The first resolution did not work and a second one, sadly, will bring about no progress for the war on terror. (The Breeze)
Maryland: Lebanon Victim of Battling Middle East Politics
by Chris Biggs
 Israel is only one of many actors at fault here. Hizballah provoked a response from Israel when it attacked soldiers near the Lebanon-Israel border. While I condemn Jerusalem’s look-the-other-way approach to Lebanese casualties, I mourn the 159 Israelis killed by Hezbollah’s steady stream of rocket fire. Lebanon deserves its share of blame too. The government, headed by Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, has little right to maintain its claims of sovereignty until it can rein in Hizballah. Even as a Lebanese-American, however, I can see the strategic value that Israel’s partnership provides the U.S. After all, Israel is a democratic ally nestled in an extremely volatile region that contains a number of our country’s sworn enemies, most prominently Iran. (Diamondback)
Wisconsin: Unprovoked Hizballah Attack Leaves Israel Behind in PR War
by Gerald Cox
 Israel found itself embroiled in a world where an enemy position could in fact be a hospital - a hospital curiously devoid of actual patients, and surprisingly full of gun-toting angry young men, but a hospital nonetheless. Israel found itself dropping quite a few of the world’s most effective bombs onto enemies so intertwined in the civilian infrastructure that the killing of one Hizballah militant invariably led to the deaths of bystanders - often reported to be militants’ wives and children - and the destruction of civilian infrastructure. (Badger Herald)
Australia: An Unholy Alliance
by Barney Zwartz and Adam Morton
 Australian Jewish groups claim some of the more radical left-wing groups are trying to exploit tensions in the Middle East to foment trouble on campus and increase their own numbers. An example was the recent visit to Melbourne University by the Israeli ambassador: Socialist Alternative members disrupted the meeting and were asked to leave by the Lebanese students' society. In Sydney last month, a Jewish student was pushed to the ground and others spat on. At Monash, a Young Liberal member staffing a stall supporting Israel was grabbed by the throat and threatened, while the table was kicked over. (The Age)
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