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Those accusing Israel of violating International Law and engaging in War crimes are silent when it comes to Hamas or other Palestinian terrorist organizations. It’s a War Crime for a force to use civilians as shields, yet Hamas intentionally operates amongst schools, hospitals and mosques, with the intent of maximizing Civilian casualties. Nary a peep is heard about this from the “International Community.” Hamas launched thousands of rocket attacks into Israeli towns, yet despite intentionally ...

The Internationalist Critique

The Internationalists put their faith in International Institutions and International law. When it comes to Israel, we may find yesterday’s realist has become Today’s Internationalist. The most vocal opponents of Israel only care about Internationalism as a means to cudgel Israel. However, let’s put that aside and focus on real Internationalists, those who really have no natural animus for Israel, but have an idealists’ faith in International Institutions. ...

The Realist Critique

The Realists claim that American support of Israel doesn’t advance US Interests. This is usually predicated upon the notion that since the Muslim world hates Israel, by supporting Israel, that hatred is directed at the US. This position is based on several false assumptions.

First, it focuses on the negative of Muslim discontent while ignoring the benefits an alliance with Israel beings. Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East. ...

The latest Israel thread and my lack of interest in engaging the usual suspects of Anti-Israel posters got me thinking. In my years of debating on the Middle East, I’ve learned much about the tactics of Anti-Israel posters. In this post, Ill focus on three schools of foreign policy thought and how opponents of Israel utilize them against Israel both here and elsewhere.

Generally, American foreign policy thinking can be grouped into three broad categories: the Realists, the Internationalists ...