July-August 2008 issue of THINK-ISRAEL

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THE 4 STAGES OF APPEASEMENT From the Sultan Knish website

MUSLIM GLOBAL WAR

SECTION 1. MUSLIMS WAGE WAR IN THE FAR EAST: The Muslim Jihad In India

KASHMIR IS THE DEFINING ISSUE OF INDIAN IDENTITY by Subramanian Swamy
THE INDIA-ISRAEL IMPERATIVE: INDO-JUDEO COMMONALITIES: THE SYMBOLIC AND THE SUBSTANTIVE by Martin Sherman
INDIAN MUJAHIDEEN: RISE OF JIHAD by Judith Apter Klinghoffer
INDIA UNDER ISLAMIST THREAT by Olivier Guitta

SECTION 2. MUSLIMS WAGE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST:

Gush Katif

THREE YEARS OF HARDSHIP FOR GUSH KATIF EXPELLEES by Hillel Fendel
THE PRIVILEGE TO YEARN AND LONG FOR A HOME AND HOMELAND by Anita Tucker
BEHIND THE LOVELY FACE by Rachel Saperstein

Gaza — Al-Qaeda's new base

IGNORING FAILURE IN GAZA by Caroline Glick
AL QAEDA'S OPPORTUNISTIC STRATEGY by Olivier Guitta
AL-QAEDA AFFILIATE—JAISH AL-ISLAM—RECEIVES FORMAL SANCTUARY IN HAMAS-RULED GAZA by Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Dahoah Halevi

Yet Another State in Mandated Palestine?

THE MYTH OF STOLEN ARAB LAND by Israel Kasnett
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT IN CONTEXT by Raymond Ibrahim
NO, MR. KOUCHNER, MIDEAST REALITY IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK by Salomon Benzimra
THE RAMIFICATIONS OF A PALESTINIAN STATE by Professor Louis René Beres

Israel's "Good" Neighbors

A MIDDLE EAST STRATEGY FOR THE WEST by Barry Rubin
DIPLOMACY AND TERROR — SYRIAN-STYLE by Jonathan Spyer
JORDAN'S LEGAL JIHAD by Stephen Brown
IS TELLING THE TRUTH ISLAM BASHING? by Amil Imani

Iran

SHI'ITE IRAN'S GENOCIDAL JEW HATRED by Andrew Bostom
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MAKING PEACE by Victor Sharpe
WAR MODELS by Prof. Paul Eidelberg
WE ONLY GET ONE STRIKE by Moshe Sharon
WHAT 'BOMB IRAN' REALLY TAKES by Ralph Peters

Israel's Other Problems

THE PEACE SNAKE by Steven Plaut
IS THE GOVERNMENT THE ENEMY? by Emanuel A. Winston
OUR TERMINAL STUPIDITY by Martin Sherman
THE MENTAL PREPARATION FOR THE DISENGAGEMENT AND ITS AFTERMATH IN THE IDF by Gadi Eshel
HIZBULLAH'S TRIUMPH: THE LONG-TERM IMPLICATIONS OF PRISONER EXCHANGES by Justus Reid Weiner and Diane Morrison
TEL AVIV U'S CHOMSKY DISCIPLES IN LINGUISTICS LEAVE US SPEECHLESS by Lee Kaplan
THE SHAME OF DISLOYALTY by Ralph Dobrin

SECTION 3. MUSLIMS WAGE WAR IN THE WEST:

THE NEW JEWS, AND HOW WE MUST DEFEND THEM by Hugh Fitzgerald

Sharia Inroads into Government and Banking

SHARIA INROADS INTO GOVERNMENT AND BANKING by Jeffrey Imm
THE PERILS OF SHARIAH-COMPLIANT FINANCE by Center for Security Policy

Islamic Inroads into the Media and Education Sectors

HOW TO GET THE WORLD TO HATE ISRAEL by Richard L. Cravatts
THE MEDIA AND ENDURING NARRATIVE by Caroline Glick
GOOGLE EARTH: A NEW PLATFORM FOR ANTI-ISRAEL PROPAGANDA AND REPLACEMENT GEOGRAPHY by Andre Oboler
WALKING WITH ANGELS AT THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER by Dexter Van Zile
THE HECKLER'S VETO by Steve Emerson
IN ACADEMIA, HIRING TOKEN JEWS by Asaf Romirowsky

Essays On Survival

MIDEAST SURVIVAL GUIDE by Mordechai Kedar
FORMER TERRORIST'S ADVICE FOR FIGHTING JIHAD: THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY by Rob Margetta

HISTORY

TACTICAL HUDNA AND ISLAMIST INTOLERANCE by Denis MacEoin
THE FIGHT OVER '1948' by Efraim Karsh
INTRODUCTION TO NATIONS UNITED: HOW THE UNITED NATIONS IS UNDERMINING ISRAEL by Alex Grobman
HE VENTURED FORTH TO BRING LIGHT TO THE WORLD by Gerard Baker

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