The American Jewish Committee, an ardent defender of Israel, is known for speaking out against anti-Semitism, but this conservative advocacy group has recently stirred up a bitter and emotional debate with a new target: liberal Jews. An essay the committee…
read moreIn a January 15, 2007 article in the English online edition of the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, reformist columnist and former Kuwaiti education minister Ahmed Al-Rabei called upon Iran to stop issuing hollow threats and to renew its dialogue with…
read moreIn 1993, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that America’s crime epidemic desensitized Americans to violence. His title “Defining Deviancy Down” became a catch-all, describing Americans’ weary acceptance of post-1960s social pathologies, from divorce to drugs. Seeing just how disengaged so…
read moreWhile world Jewry recovers from the shock of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust conference in Tehran, emotions are slowly giving way to analysis. Why is Ahmadinejad pursuing this foolish crusade against the Holocaust? After all, even he must know that…
read moreCheerful news reached us last week from Damascus. Hamas’ political chief, Khaled Meshal, told Reuters in an interview on Jan. 10 that Israel is a “matter of fact,” and that Hamas might consider recognizing Israel once a Palestinian state is…
read moreThe first reports from military intelligence about an Iranian nuclear program reached the desk of Yitzhak Rabin shortly after he became prime minister in May 1992. Rabin’s conclusion was unequivocal: Only a nuclear Iran, he told aides, could pose an…
read moreTel Aviv University’s Faculty of Law held a conference on January 8 entitled “Security prisoners or political prisoners?” According to the original plan, all the scheduled speakers were from the Left, with some coming from the extreme, anti-Israeli Left. When…
read moreI will use this platform as an opportunity to situate the events of this region in a wider picture. The collapse of the USSR meant more than the end of the Cold War, but the end of an era in…
read moreCorrection Appended ISRAEL’S newspapers are rife with reports of a peace agreement secretly forged between Israeli and Syrian negotiators. Though both the Syrian and Israeli governments have denied any involvement in the talks, past experience shows that such disavowals are…
read moreUS intelligence chief John Negroponte recently presented an updated situation assessment regarding the Middle East. Its essence: Strategic change needed due to Iran’s growing influence in the region over and beyond the threat inherent in Tehran’s nuclear project. Saddam’s and…
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