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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternJanuary 14, 2019
Mourning for a bygone Lebanon
The radiant epoch of that optimistic history was a brief moment from Feb. 14 to April 27, 2005, known as “The Cedar Revolution.” It was a time when tens of thousands of Lebanese Christians courageously took to the streets and demanded an ouster of Syrian forces.
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternDecember 20, 2018
Retreat from Syria will cause the region to combust
Throughout American history, there has been a familiar cycle of isolationist tendencies. All of these have been like waving a rare, sizzling steak to the voracious, hungry dogs in the region.
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternDecember 12, 2018
Free speech for thee, and not for me
The ideal objective of the university should be the quest for the truth. It should be part of what John Stuart Mill had described the university as being “the marketplace of ideas.”
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternNovember 28, 2018
France and Germany, have you no shame?
The two nations have apparently linked forces to salvage an effort to create back-channel payments to Iran, defying the U.S.-led effort to sanction the regime for its nuclear activity.
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternOctober 16, 2018
The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend
Saudi Arabia is no bastion of Jeffersonian democracy. Nor is Turkey, Syria, Qatar, Iran or any Islamist nation.
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternSeptember 21, 2018
For the sake of Ari Fuld, Malki Roth and countless others
According to American law, anytime an American citizen is murdered by terrorists abroad, our government has jurisdiction and is directed to prosecute the perpetrator to the full extent of the law. There is no statute of limitations.
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternAugust 27, 2018
Reducing the malevolent impact of UNRWA
The Trump administration opposing the Palestinian claim for the “right of return” would be a historic development—not just to the American taxpayer, the Jewish people and the State of Israel, but to the Palestinians themselves.
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternJuly 29, 2018
Time for some reality therapy on the Golan Heights
The demarcation line of the Golan Heights represents the demarcation of freedom against tyranny—of a failed authoritarian regime against a vibrant, healthy state based on Western democratic values.
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternJuly 5, 2018
Time to wake up to Erdoğan’s Turkey
The regime continues to trample on the right of its citizens, including freedom of speech, of association, and the rights of ethnic and religious minorities.
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternJune 25, 2018
Voices from the border with Gaza
We have heard a great deal about the suffering of Gazans living under the ironclad rule of Hamas. But what about that of the Israelis nearby?
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternMay 7, 2018
The blood libel of the 21st century
The failure of the Palestinians to accept any number of offers made to them by their Israeli interlocutors is not because the offers haven’t been generous enough. It is based on an emotion—raw Jew-hatred in the form of classic anti-Semitism.
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternApril 12, 2018
Syria gets us farther from a post-war epoch
The lesson: If we do not engage ourselves in smaller wars, America might well find itself dragged into a much larger war.
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternMarch 29, 2018
The end of the era of Palestinian deception
With the passage of the Taylor Force Act, which aims to deduct payments to Palestinian prisoners and “martyrs,” fissures are finally emerging in the terror organization’s iron wall of deception.
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternFebruary 28, 2018
Remember the horrors of Ghouta and Afrin
Syria today is one mass killing field atop another, and the air over it is being used by superpowers and those that aspire to be superpowers to play out their hegemonic dreams.
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Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. SternFebruary 9, 2018
The reasons why America needs to stop supporting UNRWA
Given the deeply entrenched institutional biases of the United Nations against Israel, we can expect that UNRWA will soon find other donors. But that doesn’t mean that the United States, which had by far been the largest donor nation, has to continuously foot the bill.
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