Analysis
Thursday, July 24th 2014
The Palestinian refugee issue has been around since 1948. UNRWA, the United Nations institution dedicated to their preservation, has been in existence since 1950. With the recent re-approval of UNRWA's mandate for more than three years, it is worth asking: how long have Western policy makers understood that UNRWA was a tool for Palestinians and […]
Thursday, July 17th 2014 / Thursday, July 17th 2014
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN SHIELDS Erol Araf & Frederick Krantz July 17, 2014 The cacophony of voices accusing Israel of breaking "international law" and committing "war crimes" has reached a deafening decibel level. A classic example is Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who entertains serious doubts about Israel's military operation […]
Tuesday, July 15th 2014 / Tuesday, July 15th 2014
In Israel, Ephraim Kishon is considered one of the most humorous writers among our literati. It is a humor spiced with paprika, like that of his native Hungary. Some time after the Six Day War, when, after our sudden victory, the bulk of sympathy for Israel was transformed into acerbic criticism, he wrote an […]
Thursday, July 10th 2014 / Thursday, July 10th 2014
Twenty years after the Oslo peace process, and now with the collapse of the recent negotiations mediated by John Kerry, Jewish American leftists groups are still trying to figure out what “peace” means. But the problem is that they can’t agree on what the current reality is in the first place. The late Middle […]
Friday, July 4th 2014
Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gave an important speech worthy of discussion when he addressed the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv on June 29. The following excerpts are from the official translation on the prime minister's office website: An historic change is taking place in our region, with major repercussions for […]
Tuesday, July 1st 2014 / Thursday, July 3rd 2014
The debate over the New York Metropolitan Opera’s performance of The Death of Klinghoffer raises serious questions about the functioning of American Jewish leadership. Over the past 40 years one of the most positive features of American Jewish leadership has been its uninhibited self-confidence, assertiveness and willingness to raise its voice with courage and dignity […]
Thursday, June 26th 2014 / Thursday, July 3rd 2014
Recent developments signal that the prospect of Europe sliding into a new Dark Age is now a horrifying reality. It is as though all the elements negating the open society have been blended into a witches’ brew to undermine Europe’s liberal cultural ethos. First in line to suffer are the Jews, attacked from all […]
Thursday, June 19th 2014 / Thursday, June 19th 2014
Fears for the well-being of the abducted teenagers dominate our minds and prayers and we share the pain of their parents and families. And the nation as a whole is displaying the unity that has always been the hallmark of the Jewish people when confronted with such situations. However there are a few demented […]
Thursday, May 29th 2014 / Thursday, May 29th 2014
“Anti-Zionism became a significant element of the Soviet Union’s foreign policy toward the end of the 1940s. The Soviet leadership had supported Israel’s creation at the United Nations General Assembly in November 1947. They believed that Israel could become an ally in the Middle East. It rapidly turned out that this would not be the […]
Monday, May 26th 2014
Until now, Islamist rule has implied violence and dictatorship. Can it evolve into something decent? Put differently: If the brutality of Ruhollah Khomeini and Osama bin Laden marked them as yesterday’s men, and the autocracy of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Mohammed Morsi make them today’s men, can tomorrow’s Islamists — Muslims seeking a consistent and […]
Friday, May 23rd 2014 / Friday, May 23rd 2014
The Russian-Ukranian conflict and resulting Russian-Western tensions may widen further for a long time to come. If so, this is likely to lead to substantial geopolitical changes. It is far too early to predict their impact on Israel, yet several important issues – besides what happens to Ukraine’s Jews – already require detailed monitoring by […]
Tuesday, May 13th 2014 / Tuesday, May 13th 2014
Perhaps the most insurmountable and explosive issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the so-called “right of return”—the demand that millions of Palestinians must be allowed to “return” to the State of Israel under any peace agreement. While Israel has made clear that it cannot agree to this, since it would effectively destroy Israel as a […]
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