State of Non-Affairs: Why Israel and Pakistan Don’t Relate
Arshad Mehmood, The Media Line
March 28, 2018
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Drones, Jews and morality
Rob Eshman
January 28, 2015
My address to the first interreligious conference on the morality of drone warfare didn’t go over particularly well.
Ruth and Judea Pearl on James Foley, Daniel Pearl and the pragmatic fight against evil
Susan Freudenheim
August 27, 2014
As the online video of an ISIS militant’s murder of American freelance journalist James Foley went viral on the Internet last week, the gruesome scene recalled another journalist’s murder more than 12 years ago.
The Torah of drones: Examining the complex morality of drone warfare
Rob Eshman
November 6, 2013
In 2009, an Israeli drone flying over the Gaza Strip transmitted back to its command station an image of a telltale rocket trail streaking toward Israeli territory. Many kilometers away, a young Israeli operator, Capt. Y, quickly maneuvered the unmanned aircraft to get a look at the young Palestinian who had just launched the deadly missile.
How much collateral damage is too much?
Jewish Journal
November 19, 2012
That is a question that should be asked regarding America’ drone operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it cannot be answered except episodically because nothing about those operations is available for public scrutiny.
From Jihad to hasbara
Roberto Loiederman
November 15, 2012
“Who here is Jewish?” Kasim Hafeez asked the audience. Nearly all of the several hundred raised their hands. “Seven years ago,” he added, “I would have wanted to see all of you dead.”
ROI youth magnet for global change
Jewish Journal
June 16, 2011
“Jewish Summer.” Young, remarkable and ready to change the world. “I was 25 and never had spoken to a Pakistani delegation before. Mustafa came over to me and said, ‘Would you mind if I sit down next to you and speak?’ We were struck by the fact we were so-called intellectuals — well read — and yet our attitudes in dealing with people were as though we never opened a book.”
Anti-Semitism in Pakistan — hate on a sliding scale
Jewish Journal
December 11, 2008
Right in the middle of Karachi stands one of the most recognized symbols of Judaism: the Star of David. It adorns Merewether Tower, one of the city\’s best-known landmarks. Nadeem Ahmed, a broker at the Karachi Stock Exchange located just across the street, points to some old graffiti at the base of the tower that reads \”Israel na manzoor\” (Israel is not acceptable). \”These marks show the anger of some fanatics for the brutality of Israelis against the Muslims of Palestine and Lebanon,\” he says. \”Frankly speaking, I\’m neither happy nor sad about the Jews who were killed in Mumbai.\”
Jews recall Musharraf ties and wonder what comes next
Jewish Journal
August 21, 2008
In 2005, Musharraf addressed a Jewish gathering in New York, where he said Pakistan would establish ties with Israel after the Palestinians have a state. During that same visit, Musharraf shook hands with then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the U.N. General Assembly. Musharraf also is rumored to have exchanged letters of friendship with Israeli President Shimon Peres.
A culture of violence or a cult of the superficial?
Judea Pearl
January 18, 2008
When The Journal asked me to write a note about the murder of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, I initially declined. I did not feel I had anything insightful or original to add to the dozens of gloomy and desperate articles we have been receiving by Pakistanis and Western analysts in the wake of that horrible tragedy.
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