Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Abraham H. Foxman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Wed, 22 May 2013 03:14:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Obama’s Israel itinerary: All the right places http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/obamas-israel-itinerary-all-the-right-places/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/obamas-israel-itinerary-all-the-right-places/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:40:40 +0000 Abraham H. Foxman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=112096 President Barack Obama’s first presidential trip to Israel was coined “Operation Desert shmooze” by pundit Jeffrey Goldberg. Of course the talk was important, both the public statements and speeches by the president – particularly his riveting speech to university students – as well as the private discussions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran, the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/obamas-israel-itinerary-all-the-right-places/feed/ 4 The NY Times’ mixed message on Gaza http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-ny-times-mixed-message-on-gaza/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-ny-times-mixed-message-on-gaza/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:51:48 +0000 Abraham H. Foxman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=81486 It has been frustrating lately, as an ardent supporter of Israel, to read the editorials in The New York Times. At a time when Israel was at war with Hamas and confronted with serious security challenges on several fronts – Hezbollah, Syria, Iran – the stakes should have been all too clear. And yet even with American [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-ny-times-mixed-message-on-gaza/feed/ 15 How to support Israel while being critical http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-to-support-israel-while-being-critical/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-to-support-israel-while-being-critical/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 01:59:46 +0000 Abraham H. Foxman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=22998 The question of how to define what it means to be pro-Israel has risen to the surface with the emergence of a group like J Street, and a writer like Peter Beinart. J Street, the Washington, DC-based lobbying group that is strongly critical of the Netanyahu government’s policies and of the positions taken by mainstream [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-to-support-israel-while-being-critical/feed/ 1 The Palestinian fantasy narrative http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-palestinian-fantasy-narrative/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-palestinian-fantasy-narrative/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:49:34 +0000 Abraham H. Foxman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=3588 The Camp David meetings of 2000 involving President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat seemed at the time to offer the greatest hope yet for peace, and an end to the decades-old conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. When things ended in failure and then exploded into [...]

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