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A Tale of Two LobbiesWednesday, September 8, 2010 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The problem of the Arab-Israel conflict begins with the term itself, which misrepresents the unilateral Arab war against Israel as a bilateral dispute. Unilateral aggression is not unheard of—when did Poland ever aggress against Germany or Russia?—but nothing in United Nations history compares in intensity or fixity with Arab belligerence toward Israel, a UN member state.
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