Joey Tartakovsky

April 14, 2003

The Left Gets Radical

By Joey Tartakovsky

Because of the war in Iraq, fierce campus debate and political activism regarding U.S. foreign policy has been unleashed. But something's wrong with this picture: The campus left has become confused with the mainstream l...

April 11, 2003

Assumptions Cloud the Complex Fedayeen Argument

By Joey Tartakovsky

Alok Paranjpye's letter (Daily Nexus, "The World's Governments Don't Know the Meaning of Altruism," April 10, 2003) is so saturated with silly misunderstandings and foolish assertions I felt compelled to reply.

April 2, 2003

Battling for Their Lives

By Joey Tartakovsky

So far, the most alarming development is that of Saddam's paramilitary forces. More and more, it seems that these individuals - not tanks or contingents of uniformed soldiers - will determine the course of battle.

February 27, 2003

U.S.A. Leads the Charge Into a Brave New World

By Joey Tartakovsky

The anti-war movement has little to do with an actual war. It's about something larger with even greater significance for which Iraq has only been the catalyst. It has opened a deep political rift that suggests placing t...

February 19, 2003

Oh, the Humanity of It All

By Joey Tartakovsky

Self-righteous "peace" advocates turn what should be complex moral calculus into third grade arithmetic. The irony of the anti-war position based on gut-level morality alone is that, in reality, moral impulses are one of...

February 11, 2003

Concerning a Possible War With Iraq: No Nukes Is Good Nukes

By Joey Tartakovsky

When the debate over an invasion of Iraq first began, it seemed there was a countless number of causes for war offered for its justification.

February 4, 2003

We Might as Well Face It, the United States Is Addicted to Oil

By Joey Tartakovsky

Being addicted to oil from Arab autocracies, like we are now, is terrible policy. It gives such states influence that they shouldn't have, given our vastly different interests and lack of shared values.

April 30, 2002

In a Hate-Filled World, Israel Stands Besieged

By Joey Tartakovsky

Israel has become the focal point of worldwide anti-Semitism, and criticism of Israel has become a mask of legitimacy for darker feelings.

February 19, 2002

Olympics Refuses to Remember the Slain Israeli Athletes of ’72

By Joey Tartakovsky

Since the Munich Massacre in 1972, those wishing to honor the dead have requested the International Olympic Committee do so as well, but the IOC has resisted, citing concerns about protests from Arab representatives.

November 7, 2001

Muslims Are Not Out to Destroy Our World

By Joey Tartakovsky

Justin M. Rughe's article "Support Israel; 'The Muslims are out to Destroy our World'" (Nov. 7) in no way represents the feelings of the majority of those who support Israel.