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About Those State Department Maps
In a story that made waves this week, Adam Entous reported in the New Yorker on the State Department maps showing the status of Israeli settlement activity that made such a big impression on President...
View ArticleThoughts In The Wake Of Pittsburgh
The massacre of Jews sitting in a Pittsburgh shul on Shabbat morning has been an emotionally searing experience for American Jews, me included. Tablet’s Alana Newhouse smartly noted how aninut – the...
View ArticleAmerican Jewry’s Trump Virus
I sometimes wonder whether the American Jewish community will survive the Trump presidency. I do not mean that American Jews are under some form of existential threat from President Trump, which is...
View ArticleTrump’s Leverage Over Netanyahu
From the day President Trump set foot in the White House, Israeli leaders have argued that he is the best friend they have ever had. Many of the Trump administration’s policies, from recognition of...
View ArticleWhy Empty Annexation Threats Are Still Threatening
In what was intended to be a dramatic announcement on Tuesday with his cabinet members in attendance, Prime Minister Netanyahu for the first time revealed his specific plan for proceeding with West...
View ArticleTime To Stop Talking About Talks
Whenever a new president takes office, speculation abounds about how long it will take for the incoming administration to dive into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and try to solve it. In some cases,...
View ArticleWhat To Do When Israel Is Not The Center Of The World
If there has been an abiding theme to President Biden’s Israel policy so far, it has been that, for good or bad, the road to Washington does not run through Jerusalem. Israel’s centrality was a...
View ArticleWhat’s the Purpose of Aid to the Palestinians?
President Biden and his team have made no secret of the fact that at the top of their list of priorities with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is reversing President Trump’s policy of...
View ArticleThe Opportunity Presented By The New Israeli Government
The last time that Israel had a new prime minister take office before Prime Minister Bennett did so last week, it came at the beginning of a new U.S. president’s term as it has this time. In 2009, the...
View ArticleThe Case for Optimism Regarding the New Israeli Government
In nearly every instance of the umpteen times I have spoken about the Israeli election results over the past week, I inevitably get some version of the same question, which is “what is the silver...
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