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Micah Halpern Micah D. Halpern is a columnist and a social and political commentator. His latest book is "Thugs: How History's Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World through Terror, Tyranny, and Mass Murder" (Thomas Nelson).
Articles by Micah Halpern
Over the past few years hundreds upon hundreds of Palestinians have found a new and lucrative line of business. They traffic in the underground, illegal, tunnels of Gaza.
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To thwart Iran, the Saudis could enter into a defense and intelligence alliance with Israel.
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Despite the differences between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, it is clear that Israel has secured the ability to strike and defend itself against Iran without American condemnation.
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A popular Imam in Saudi Arabia, has called for the assassination of Bashar Assad. This demonstrates that many Arabs have lost patience with Syria's dictator.
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The way to truly hurt Iran is to have China and India break, or at least drastically reduce their ties, with Iran.
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Why would Obama Administration reward the extremists in Egypt?
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Iran knows that they are playing with fire but they have several very important goals to achieve which will help them when attacked by Israel.
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The Russians and Chinese will not permit any international forces or sanction any international action against Syria.
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Professional Israeli cyber-security experts must punish anti-Israel amateur hackers. There is no doubt that warfare is changing. But there is still a need to defend and to intimidate.
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Do not be misled by those who mistakenly shrug off these attacks as adolescent games and kids looking for a thrill. Cyber attacks are every bit as dangerous as a bus bomb.
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Sometimes the populist candidate wins the White House. But a populist president, that never works.
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Attacking Hamas terrorists is the only way Israel has of confronting them. There is no other method of attack other than search and destroy.
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New technology will render Iran's surveillance deaf to Israel's likely air attack. It will prevent communication.
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Israel will strike Iran only when Israel is certain that they can repel the counter strike from Iran's proxies. Only when they are certain that the total number of casualties will be limited to just a few thousand.
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Iran aims to re-orient Islam away from Mecca.
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Part of UNESCO's charge is that members must both embrace peaceful interaction with their neighbor nations and recognize their neighbor nations. And yet, neither Palestinian Authority nor Hamas textbooks even identify Israel on their maps.
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Why it was morally, ethically, historically and financially wrong to murder Muammar Ghadaffi.
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Muammar Ghadaffi, the one critical unifying factor in Libya, is now out of the way. The rational alternative would be for the country's 140 tribes to figure out a way to work together. But they don't know how, they have never been given the tools and re-education takes too long.
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Gilad Shalit is free. And life for Israel has become that much more dangerous.
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The United States lost sight of the historical reality that teaches that when you oust a dictator like Egypt's Mubarak or Libya's Ghadaffi, you don't necessarily usher in freedom.
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