Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Lynne T. links to a fascinating review of a new book by Natan Sharansky called "Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy" in which he makes what seems like the counterintuitive claim that democracy without nationalism is a weaker democracy. I'd probably need to read it to understand it fully but some of the tidbits mentioned are most interesting. I especially...
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Natan Sharansky, no introduction necessary, and Bassem Eid, founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, basically describe the fact that there are no shortcuts toward building a Palestinian Arab polity capable of being a peaceful neighbor: There Won't Be...
YID With LID (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Since leaving politics, Natan Sharansky has been acting as a worldwide ambassador for Democracy. In the peace below He joins Bassem Eid to condemn the appeasement of terrorist dictators that has been going on since the Oslo process But the corrupt dictatorship he [Arafat] built would win him and his party only the lasting scorn of his people. The Hamas victory two years ago in the Palestinian...
Boker tov, Boulder! (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
JTA: Natan Sharansky said an Obama presidency would be a "risk" to Israel. Sharansky, a former Israeli Cabinet minister, told Shalom TV in an interview that U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), the presumptive Democratic candidate, has no record on foreign policy and that an Obama presidency would constitute a political gamble for Israel. By contrast, Sharansky characterized...
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Former Prisoner of Zion Natan Sharansky has termed Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama a "risk" to Israel if he is elected president. The former minister in the Sharon government, who also is a personal friend of American President George W. Bush, told Shalom TV that he prefers Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. "In the case of...
The Black Kettle (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
By: Christopher Ruddy, NewsMax: Editor’s Note: Newsmax Editor Christopher Ruddy is visiting Israel this week and met with Natan Sharansky. The former Soviet dissident spent more than a decade in the communist Gulag. He emigrated to Israel after his release in 1986, became a Knesset member and served in four successive Israeli governments, including time as deputy prime minister. In 2006,...
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Christopher Ruddy Article Font Size Editor’s Note: Newsmax Editor Christopher Ruddy is visiting Israel this week and met with Natan Sharansky. The former Soviet dissident spent more than a decade in the communist Gulag. He emigrated to Israel after his release in 1986, became a Knesset member and served in four successive Israeli governments, including time as deputy prime minister. In...
YID With LID (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
“It is very alarming for me the way Senator Obama voted, the way he spoke about his desire to negotiate with Ahmadinejad, and the way some of his advisers think. “I was at AIPAC. He made a very strong speech, speaking about a Jewish state, defensible borders, a united Jerusalem , then the next day he started correcting himself.” Natan Sharanksy feels very uneasy about the prospect of Senator...
redstatesusa (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... indefinitely with no substance to bolster them. From the inside, courageous figures such as Natan Sharansky and Alexander Solzhenitsyn unmasked the horror and oppression behind the utopian assertions of a communist world. And despite some brief surges in Soviet technology as epitomized by the October 4, 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, the inherent...
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... indefinitely with no substance to bolster them. From the inside, courageous figures such as Natan Sharansky and Alexander Solzhenitsyn unmasked the horror and oppression behind the utopian assertions of a communist world. And despite some brief surges in Soviet technology as epitomized by the October 4, 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, the inherent...
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... Council is working to fight the smears at its blog: Earlier this month JTA reported that, “Natan Sharansky said an Obama presidency would be a ‘risk’ to Israel.” This is a continuation of the fear and smear campaign against Senator Barack Obama being perpetrated by many of Senator John McCain’s supporters. Trashing the most famous prisoner of conscience. Good thinking. The DNC points...
Bloodthirsty Liberal (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
That’s the lesson gleaned by Natan Sharansky and Bassem Eid: In 1993, then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin defended the Oslo accords he signed with Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Organization to a somewhat skeptical Israeli public by arguing that Arafat would fight Hamas much better than Israel, since he had “no Supreme Court and no Betselem” (an [...]
Justus For All (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Natan Sharansky and Bassem Eid write about Palestine peace in the Wall Street Journal Oslo proponents believed a strong Arafat, unconstrained by the inherent checks of democratic rule, would be able to fight Hamas and forge a final peace with Israel. A weak Palestinian democracy, the logic went, actually served the interest of peace by creating [...]
Jewish Current Issues (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Natan Sharansky and Bassem Eid (founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group in East Jerusalem), writing in today’s Wall Street Journal on a “tragic peace process [that] turned to farce”: Israel, America and the free world share much of...
The Hedgehog Blog (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
In today's Wall Street Journal , Natan Sharansky and Bassem Eid, a Palestinian Arab and the founder and director of Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, based in East Jerusalem, write that there is no hope for peace between Israel and the Palestinians without a democratic reconstruction of Palestinian civil society. They write how in the wake of the Oslo Accords, Israel and the...
