Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Alexander Griffing http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Thu, 23 May 2013 23:36:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Will Bibi betray the ‘arc of history’? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/will-bibi-betray-the-arc-of-history/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/will-bibi-betray-the-arc-of-history/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:48:46 +0000 Alexander Griffing http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104092 The January 22nd election results have handed sitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a historic opportunity to reform Israeli society and secure for himself a positive, substantive legacy of social reform.  The media and political pundits focusing more on the political intrigue surrounding the coalition negotiations largely seem to be missing the historic gravity of the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/will-bibi-betray-the-arc-of-history/feed/ 0 Tzipi Hotoveli’s Israel: Left, Right & Center http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/tzipi-hotovelis-israel-left-right-center/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/tzipi-hotovelis-israel-left-right-center/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:56:18 +0000 Alexander Griffing http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=96748 The day before the Israeli general elections David Remnik, the editor of the New Yorker, published a scathing critique of what he sees as the new emerging right within Israeli politics.  Remnik employs over 9,000 words in his article, “The Party Faithful: The settlers move to annex the West Bank—and Israeli politics,” to portray the [...]

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