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Oct 12, 2024, 3:54 PM

False Accusations of Genocide against Israel

The people of Israel, mourning the victims of mass murder and abduction by Hamas on October 7, 2023, are falsely accused of committing genocide in Gaza. But this accusation is false because genocide is the systematic, planned annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group....

Aug 9, 2024, 11:03 PM

Exchange Detained Health Care Workers for Hostages

Gaza’s health ministry says that after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, more than 300 of Gaza’s health care workers suspected of terrorist activity are in Israeli detention. Israel has accused Hamas of using hospitals in Gaza as military bases. Medical workers have...

May 25, 2024, 12:13 AM

To Defeat Hamas Slowly, Divest From A Major Donor

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for the leaders of both Israel and Hamas on charges of crimes against humanity. By equating Hamas with Israel, the ICC has highlighted the responsibility of Hamas for precipitating the war in Gaza...

Apr 23, 2024, 5:29 PM

Response to Call for a Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza

In calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, a university student council should first be informed that Hamas started the war in Gaza on Oct. 7 by massacring about 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians and kidnapping about 240 others. The student council might commend Israel for...

Mar 28, 2024, 12:19 AM

One and One-Half State Solution

The UN Security Council has demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the remainder of Ramadan which ends on April 9. The UN resolution forbids Israel from invading Rafah to defeat the Hamas fighters hidden deeply inside and beneath their last stronghold. Israel would be...

Jan 25, 2024, 8:25 AM

Attempting to Recover the Hostages

To increase the humanitarian aid delivered to Gaza, US and European officials are pressing Israel to allow aid to be shipped to the Israeli port of Ashdod, about 16 miles north of Gaza. From Ashdod, after Israeli security checks, the aid would then be transported...

Nov 3, 2023, 6:29 AM

Take Temporary Hostages to Be Exchanged

Israel is under international pressure to agree to a ceasefire in its war with Hamas. Hamas started the war on Oct. 7 by massacring about 1,400 Israeli citizens and visitors, and kidnapping about 240 survivors who are now held hostage inside Gaza. (Although Hamas’s shocking...

Oct 23, 2023, 7:55 AM

Small Steps to Aid Civilians while Fighting Hamas

The people of Israel are selfish. They want to live. They also want their nation to survive. Hamas, the government of Gaza, their neighbor, denies the right of Israel to exist. Hamas vows to liberate Palestine from the river to the sea, which leaves no...

Oct 13, 2023, 5:03 AM

Propose Israeli and Saudi Mutual Defense Treaty

Israelis, Jews everywhere, and hopefully, many non-Jews, are stunned by the devastating surprise attack by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, 50 years after the traumatic Yom Kippur war of 1973. More than 1,200 Israelis were killed by Hamas and about 150 were taken hostage. Hamas...

Jul 31, 2023, 10:46 PM

Possible Peace Between Israel and Saudi Arabia

Optimists believe that if peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia, the motherland of Islam’s two holiest cities, can be achieved, then other Muslim countries could be prompted to also make peace with Israel. Prior to possibly normalizing relations with Israel, Saudi Arabia has made the...

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Ted Sheskin is a professor emeritus of industrial engineering at Cleveland State University, and the author of a textbook, Markov Chains and Decision Processes for Engineers and Managers. He has published peer-reviewed papers on engineering systems and mathematical algorithms. His letters to editors addressing politics, economic policy, and issues facing Israel and American Jews have appeared in the NY Times, NY Daily News, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Jewish News, NY Jewish Week, the Forward, Queens Chronicle, Queens Courrier, and Jewish Voice.

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