Neer Lerner

January 19, 2006

Says Goodbye to Beloved Israeli Prime Minister

By Neer Lerner

Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a major stroke, accompanied by massive internal bleeding and exacerbated by blood thinners prescribed to him for a previous stroke.

October 14, 2004

Dualist Ideals In The UN

By Neer Lerner

The United Nations was founded as an international institution intended to promote peace and global unity while fighting fascism. Yet, today it has become a forum for Arab nations to vent their political frustrations tow...

September 24, 2004

France’s Quiet Epidemic

By Neer Lerner

Chechen terrorists murder children in a Russian school, Palestinian suicide bombers blow up grandmothers on Israeli buses, Arab militias in Sudan rape and slaughter black Christians, and militants behead Westerners in Ir...

May 11, 2004

Column Skews the Middle East Conflict

By Neer Lerner

In response to Ruben Brosbe's column "An Informed Debate" (May 7, Daily Nexus), I must concur with Brosbe's argument that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has tragically been oversimplified by both sides to the "point th...

April 29, 2004

Terrorism Can’t Exist Without a House to Live In

By Neer Lerner

I am writing in response to Ali Kattan-Wright's article ("Collective Punishment Affects Us All," April 27, Daily Nexus) which I found to be a revolting distortion of the Israeli government's policy of house demolitions a...

October 17, 2003

The Ignored Refugees

By Neer Lerner

Skirmishes between Jews and Arabs in 1930s-40s pre-state Israel produced a Palestinian refugee population. It is often argued that the Israeli government should compensate the descendants of the Palestinian refugees who ...