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John Kerry’s plan: still missing a peace

Elihu D. Richter — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:54:13 +0000

Press reports hint that Secretary of State John Kerry is in Israel with a rewarmed version of the Saudi peace plan. His visit started at Yad Vashem, where, perhaps, he had the opportunity to ponder the catastrophic effects of the kind of incitement now pandemic in the entire Islamic world, including Saudi Arabia. The Holocaust, [...]

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‘Take rhetoric and wring its neck’

Elihu D. Richter — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:00:46 +0000

It is good to have President Obama as our guest. One gets the sense that after four years of being mugged by Mideastern realities, he is treading carefully in what he has come to recognize as being a very dangerous neighborhood. We welcome him with open hearts. The Jerusalem poet Paul Raboff has an ear [...]

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Banning Ariel U students is discrimination

Elihu D. Richter — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:12:07 +0000

The decision by the White House to exclude students of Ariel University from attending the Jerusalem Convention Hall meeting between President Obama and Israeli university students bespeaks of segregation and selective discrimination. Ariel University’s doors are open to Jews and Arabs, its teachers do not incite or propagate disinformation or misinformation, and from everything I [...]

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The textbook study: flawed and wrong

Elihu D. Richter — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:58:15 +0000

Tell me what a school system is teaching its children and I will tell you whether there will be peace or war in another five to 10 years. Less than a month ago, there were numerous press reports on the results of a high level joint US-Israeli-Palestinian study, Victims of their Own Narratives. The impression [...]

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Turn off the lights in Gaza

Elihu D. Richter — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:13:30 +0000

This morning, I called a medical colleague in Ashkelon to ask his thoughts on Gaza – and whether we should cut off the power supply to Gaza. I was about to tell him we should cut off its TV and radio programs as well. As we were talking, I could hear the sirens going off, and he [...]

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Is there a Churchill in the house?

Elihu D. Richter — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:51:07 +0000

In the debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, the president referred to his visit to Yad Vashem as evidence of his concern about genocidal risks to Israel. But Governor Romney has become the first presidential candidate ever to specifically call for invoking the tools of international law to indict the Iranian leadership for incitement to [...]

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An open letter to Benjamin Netanyahu

Elihu D. Richter — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:11:30 +0000

Erev Rosh Hashanah, 5753 Subject: Call upon nations of world to prosecute Iran’s leaders NOW for their crimes against humanity Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I am an epidemiologist researching the role of state-sponsored incitement and hate language as a predictor, catalyst and promoter of genocide and mass atrocities. On Nov 7, 2005, six days [...]

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