Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Alex Stein http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 00:43:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Why Unilateral Withdrawal Isn’t the Answer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-unilateral-withdrawal-isnt-the-answer/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-unilateral-withdrawal-isnt-the-answer/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:16:40 +0000 Alex Stein http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=120444 Perhaps inevitably, it took satire to get to the heart of the matter. With two Bibis before him, Eretz Nehederet’s Eyal Kitzis asked the real one if he was serious about the two-state solution. The prime minister insisted that he was. Unconvinced, Kitzis asked Bibi what he would do if Abu Mazen agreed to all [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/stop-the-army-from-suppressing-the-joint-israeli-palestinian-memorial-day-ceremony/feed/ 30 Who started it – setting the record straight http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/who-started-it-setting-the-record-straight/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/who-started-it-setting-the-record-straight/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:03:59 +0000 Alex Stein http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=79686 In a war of attrition, either side can find a chicken or an egg to suit their purpose. As a result, who-started-it debates are often beside the point. But, given a particularly disingenuous timeline that’s being passed around by the likes of Electronic Intifada and Mondoweiss, it’s important to set the record straight. Ali Abunimah summarizes the [...]

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