Copyright 2008 The New York Sun Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:36:31 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fiamma Nirenstein :: Stories from The New York Sun http://www.nysun.com/authors/Fiamma+Nirenstein istoll@nysun.com (Ira Stoll) webmaster@nysun.com en-us FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN http://www.nysun.com/opinion/insiders-story-of-gaza/59992/ Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST Somebody who hasn't seen the face of "The Butcher," cannot really understand what happened in Gaza this July, in the days when Hamas defeated Fatah. He is the sorrow and rage personified, frightening and miserable at the same time. Swollen, managing to look pale even with dark skin, his red eyes look wide open on something awful, looking at the horrifying surprise of that overwhelming Hamas. He sits with two generals at a table of the coffee shop Pronto in Ramallah, a secular place where they... FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN http://www.nysun.com/opinion/great-misunderstanding/27575/ Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:00:00 EST JERUSALEM, Israel - President Putin has invited the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas to Moscow for talks, France supports the invitation, and even the rest of the world, as represented by the Quartet, is taking a wait-and-see attitude, as Secretary of State Rice expressed recently in London. It's a great misunderstanding. Ms. Rice, while wisely withholding new subsidies to the Palestinian Authority until Hamas decides whether to give up its armed struggle, proclaimed, that the Palestinian... FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN http://www.nysun.com/opinion/post-gaza-rift/20153/ Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EST Something weird has happened after the disengagement, and I feel worried. There was, once upon a time, not such a big bunch of people, who shared a common and not so easy struggle: spreading the truth about Israel. All these friends have always been aware that Israel faces a tough fight for survival and that its people have been heroically resisting an ideological and prejudicial hate that has been directed against them since before the Jewish state was born. All kind of blood libels and... FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN http://www.nysun.com/opinion/scenes-from-the-disengagement/19159/ Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:00:00 EST This is not a political piece about disengagement; this is an attempt to find for me and for you some consolation after what we have seen in Gush Katif. This consolation I found in the unique strength of the democracy in Israel. First, it's not for a journalist to confess that sometimes words are not enough to express what you have seen, certainly not for somebody who has gone through a lot of terrorism and wars as I have. But after this week in Gaza, I'm afraid I'm not nearly able to tell the... FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN http://www.nysun.com/foreign/muslim-moderates-and-terrorism/17686/ Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EST SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - The poor people dressed in Islamic garb or in dirty blue trousers and T-shirts sitting in 118-degree heat in the hall of the Sharm el-Sheik Hospital were either the brothers, the cousins, or the friends of the people wounded in the terrorist attack of the day before. Just plenty of desperate young people. No women were there, no mothers, or sisters, or wives. Egyptian women almost don't live in Sharm. The family and children of the workers are in the villages near Cairo... FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN http://www.nysun.com/opinion/old-and-tired/16043/ Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EST Last Saturday, Mahmoud Zahar, the current leader of the terrorist group Hamas, said he had just met "a very important adviser of the German government." The Hamas spokesman, Mushir Al-Masri, clarified: "Every 10 days we receive visits of European envoys from all countries. We explain to them that our resistance is legitimate and should not be interpreted as terrorism" and that "Hamas has no intention of changing this course." The course intended is the destruction of Israel, terrorism, bombings... Fiamma Nirenstein http://www.nysun.com/opinion/old-vice/11163/ Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST Walls are falling, dictators are being deposed or simply die, while crowds fill the squares looking for liberty, and yet an old vice is proving to be hard to die. It is an extremely dangerous vice because of its ability to erode any democratic process from within. Three recent episodes exemplify this. First episode: Lebanon, the country each of us hopes to see soon free as it deserves, withdrew from the Eurovision singing contest that will take place on May 19 and 20 in Kiev, Ukraine. The... Fiamma Nirenstein http://www.nysun.com/opinion/magic-of-voting/8618/ Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST The recent election in Iraq, and the one in the Palestinian Authority more than a month ago, are rare windows into the future of the Middle East. Those who have looked through them have seen that, beyond the apocalyptic and pessimistic speeches reported all over the European press, President Bush's plan possesses a winning card. The winning card is the magic of voting; it is the incomparable joy of democracy; it is the ecstasy that only freedom and equality can give through an act so simple... FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN http://www.nysun.com/foreign/condition-of-abbass-power-is-to-cope-with-terrors/7514/ Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST On the stony hills of Judea and Samaria, in the refugee camps of Calandia, as well as in the room in the Mukhata where Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, cast his vote, I held a contradictory dialogue with Palestinian Arabs queuing up to vote: Who will you vote for? Abu Mazen. Why? Because he is the only one the Americans, the Israelis, and the rest of the world know and trust and hence, he is the right person to make peace with Israel. We cannot stand the violence anymore, and Abu Mazen...