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Baylor: Canada Sends Palestinians Message with 'Backbone'
by Jonathan Ludwig
 Canada and the European Union have long been staunch allies of the Palestinians and their corrupt, woefully dysfunctional government. That is to say, their shift in positions is nothing to sneeze at. Thanks to new Canadian leadership - and with it some backbone - dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with more than free carrots might actually promote change. (The Lariat)
UC Santa Barbara: United States, Israel Must Now Watch Where They Step
by Joel Furman
 When anti-Semitism is normalized in a region where one theocratic state is working to develop a nuclear arsenal and another has recently elected a guerilla terrorist group to lead it, where embassies are burned and people killed over an intellectual insult to Islam by people who publish cartoons of Adolf Hitler in bed with Anne Frank and where Islamic sectional strife threatens to rip apart a new, albeit forcibly imposed, democracy, it's hard to blame the whole mess on Israel. (Daily Nexus)
Georgetown: Don't Shoot the Messenger
by Nick Timiraos
 One of my favorite incidents was a protest against the Israeli wall, ostensibly built to keep out Palestinian suicide bombers, two years ago. Students for Justice in Palestine had all the right attention-grabbers, mock soldiers preventing mock pregnant women from passing through a mock security check point in front of the mock security barrier in Red Square. Signs at the protest told onlookers that if this had really been the wall, you would have been "turned away." But they were beat at their own game. A renegade student dressed as a mock suicide bomber and held a sign that read, "If I were a real suicide bomber, you would be dead by now." Protest organizers were furious, so furious that they demanded The Hoya apologize for printing the photo, which they deemed "racist." (The Hoya)
Minnesota: Who Are You, Hamas?
by Adri Mehra
 Hamas uses the political capital of both aid and terror as viable tools to carve out a niche in the confused clamor of a region aching for change. Does Hamas have the intellectual artillery to fire the opening salvo in the war of ideas? Or will they treat governing as another ill-fated suicide mission with forty virgins waiting at the finish line? Your move, Hamas. (Minnesota Daily)
Oxford: Jews Against Israel
by Emanuelle Ottolenghi
 With Hamas in power, Iran ranting and going nuclear and the Middle East on fire on account of 12 cartoons, the Cambridge Student Union could do better than devote its yearly debate on regional issues to whether Jews have a right to self-determination. In the event, all it proved was that intelligence is not a prerequisite for admission into top British universities. (Jerusalem Post)
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UC Irvine: Dispelling Myths, Repeating Truths
by Alex Chazen
 It is astonishing to me that the Muslim Student Union can take such advantage of the rights given to it by the United States of America, bringing speakers only allowed because of free speech laws, writing libelous articles of its own, and visiting and supporting a known terrorist, John Walker Lindh, yet allow its speakers to condemn the nation and support imams in Palestine who claim that America will be taken over and controlled by Muslims. (New University)
Chicago: Israel Can Not Afford to Alienate Hamas
by Benjamin Farkash
 It’s worth noting that referring to Hamas as a murderous horde is not hyperbole. The atrocities committed by Hamas are horrifying and well documented. For now, Israel and the West have a choice. They can give Hamas a chance with the democratic power that they have so much faith in, not least because democracy forces accountability (as Fatah recently discovered). Or, they can push Hamas back into its comfort zone, as a murderous terrorist group. (Chicago Maroon)
Indiana: Islam and Eggshells
by Levi Harris
 We walk on eggshells around Islam because it's the little brother who whines that the West loves Judaism more. But Jews don't fly planes into buildings. Jews don't kidnap civilians and cut their heads off on TV. Jews don't torch embassies when hate-mongering diplomats make anti-Semitic remarks at the United Nations. Jews are the most historically embattled minority on the planet, and even that doesn't make them blow up children on buses. As a gay man, I could serve in the Israeli Army with honor. In Saudi Arabia, I could be beheaded in the public square. (Indiana Digital Student)
NYU: Why Hamas Won: An Honest Analysis
by Rob Segal
 Every Israeli government since Oslo’s signing, including the right-wingers Netenyahu and Sharon, have pulled out of territory in accordance with international agreements and that the occupation continues because the Palestinian leadership has either refused to renounce violence or act on their promise to do so. The Hamas victory was exclusively a condemnation of the corruption of the former Palestinian government. Hamas has successfully marketed itself as an organization free of corruption and deceit, an anathema to the free-for-all that was Fatah's PA. (Washington Square News)
Virginia: Digging Ourselves Deeper
by Stephen Parsley
 Many experts in Israel agree that voters chose Hamas not because of its terrorist leanings but because it was the only logical alternative to Fatah's history of corruption and incompetence. Had the West supported Palestinian democracy during the 1990s rather than the untrustworthy Arafat, a moderate opposition could have been given time to develop. Instead, the only alternative to corruption for Palestinians was Hamas. (Cavalier Daily)
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