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A Response To “A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict 7 ”

Over at Normblog you’ll find the latest installment of Sam Fleischacker’s series “A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict” here. You’ll find my comments on previous installments behind these numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. On this occasion Fleischacker deals with questions relating to nationalism and, once again, I’m in agreement with the thrust of what he says. There follow some variations on points he raises.

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A Response To “A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict 6”

Over at Normblog you’ll find the latest installment of Sam Fleischacker’s series “A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict” here.  You’ll find my comments on previous installments behind these numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.  On this occasion Fleischacker deals with questions relating to the idea of collective ownership of particular territories.

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Israel, Iran and Early Warnings

According to this story, Israel has just received an advanced, early warning radar system, as well the crew to operate it, from the United States. This represents a major step forward for American-Israeli defense integration and will greatly improve Israel’s ability to deal with ballistic missile threats.

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A Response To “A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict 3”

There follows my response to certain matters raised in the third post, titled “Racism and Anti-Semitism”, in a series by Samuel Fleischacker - hereinafter referred to as SF - about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, currently appearing over at Normblog. My responses to the two previous posts can be found here and here.

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Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism

Further to  Ben’s earlier post

Antony Lerman says,

Others (this writer included) fundamentally dispute that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are synonymous.

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