The never-ending ‘struggle for Palestine’
In his 1974 book Palestinians and Israel, the late Yehoshafat Harkabi wrote that following the Six-Day War:
“The collision with the Palestinians is presented as the essence of the conflict, for this is allegedly a struggle...
Thomas Friedman lectures about lying
Thomas Friedman, The New York Times columnist who built his career on a lie about his pro-Palestinian past, has just authored a column bemoaning the legitimization of lying in American culture. Then, just a few hours...
The US election: Preliminary lessons for America’s allies
Though the result of the 2020 U.S. presidential election is still pending litigation over allegations of fraud, many U.S. allies have been unrestrained in their expressions of happiness and relief at the prospect of...
Caligula Goes Covid: Nuclear Perils of Trump’s Last Days
“The air tonight is as heavy as the sum of human sorrows.”-Albert Camus, Caligula
It is no longer just hyperbole. Still armed with nuclear weapons, a conspicuously deranged American president may be willing to do anything...
How Trump And The Republicans Influence Their Followers
Pollsters and pundits are beating their heads against the wall trying to figure out how they got it so wrong in their predictions for American elections. Nobody thought that the presidential race was going...
Designating anti-Semitism: Positives and pitfalls
One of the more reprehensible aspects of the global campaign to strip Israel of its legitimacy is the fact that so many leading human-rights organizations have been co-opted by it.
Under the cover of concern...
Soaring Above Politics: Death, Time and Immortality
“An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.”
Emmanuel Levinas, Being-Toward Death as the Origin of Time (1976)
Nowadays, at least as metaphor, it’s easy to confuse the symptoms with disease. Though we are all more-or-less...
The US president-elect must heed the lessons of history when managing Iran
One of the most crucial issues on the table for the Middle East is Iran. It is very likely that this will be one of the first briefings President-elect Joe Biden receives when he...
Warnock’s antipathy to Israel could cost Dems the Senate
Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock must navigate an obstacle course to convert voting figures so they can join the U.S. Senate on Jan. 5 and Jewish Georgians wary of “apartheid” phrasing...
Israeli Observer Worries about Ilhan Omar
Why are American Jewish organizations silent about Congressional anti-Semitism and anti-Israel slander?
Why is it that the ZOA is the only Jewish organization in America that initiated instant condemnation of Ilhan Omar’s latest anti-Semitic drumbeat...