Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Arno Rosenfeld http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 20:29:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 How Abbas’ UN bid could promote non-violence http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/let-abass-make-his-un-bid/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/let-abass-make-his-un-bid/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:03:13 +0000 Arno Rosenfeld http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=82462 A successful statehood bid could allow unpopular Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas enough credit to ward off Hamas’ increasing popularity among Palestinians and empower him enough to make concessions in peace negotiations. Operation Pillar of Defense strengthened Hamas. The rockets made daily life impossible for many in the south of Israel and to justify their retaliation, Israel made [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-children-are-getting-killed-in-gaza/feed/ 28 Reading Israeli news http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/haaretzs-shame/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/haaretzs-shame/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 09:39:07 +0000 Arno Rosenfeld http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=75252

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/haaretzs-shame/feed/ 11 American party politics http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-do-the-greens-pick-on-israel/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-do-the-greens-pick-on-israel/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:14:43 +0000 Arno Rosenfeld http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=73600 This post is no longer available.

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-do-the-greens-pick-on-israel/feed/ 0 If you blog it… http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/if-you-blog-it/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/if-you-blog-it/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:19:51 +0000 Arno Rosenfeld http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=73280 The above raises questions about what it means to blog for The Times of Israel. A Jewish news Twitter account post a tweet that quickly spread across Twitter claiming that Varda Epstein’s highly questionable post claiming a vote for Obama is a vote for a second genocide of six million Jews was the official opinion [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/if-you-blog-it/feed/ 15 Israel & Zionism http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/not-my-zionism-not-my-israel/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/not-my-zionism-not-my-israel/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:43:47 +0000 Arno Rosenfeld http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=72792 This post is no longer available.

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-clown-on-the-world-stage/feed/ 6 From Palestinian ‘mongrels’ to Israeli ‘Nazis’, it’s what makes us happy http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-palestinian-mongrels-to-israeli-nazis-its-what-makes-us-happy/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-palestinian-mongrels-to-israeli-nazis-its-what-makes-us-happy/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:01:01 +0000 Arno Rosenfeld http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=48024 There’s a reason Israel is so polarizing: it’s complicated, and nobody’s right. Fighting against “Israeli Apartheid” or a murderous and uncivilized pack of terrorists will always be easier, and according to studies, make you happier, than confronting the conflict in an intellectually honest way. President of the conservative American Enterprise Institute Arthur C. Brooks took to the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/lets-make-a-deal/feed/ 46 Against terrorism, Jewish or otherwise http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/against-terrorism-jewish-or-otherwise/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/against-terrorism-jewish-or-otherwise/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2012 03:06:53 +0000 Arno Rosenfeld http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=57470 Post is no longer available

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/against-terrorism-jewish-or-otherwise/feed/ 1 Jewish martyrdom & Tisha B’Av http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-martyrdom-tisha-bav/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-martyrdom-tisha-bav/#comments Sun, 29 Jul 2012 08:44:00 +0000 Arno Rosenfeld http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=47306 On Tisha B’Av we give up food and sacrifice other personal joys to commemorate the many tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people throughout history. In light of the rash of recent self-immolations, and attempts, this day of mourning is a good opportunity to ask what the Jewish perspective on self-sacrifice is, be it fasting or protest [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-jews-were-terrorists/feed/ 28 This isn’t their land http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/this-isnt-their-land/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/this-isnt-their-land/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:29:11 +0000 Arno Rosenfeld http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=46576 Some of my more rigid Israeli friends say that unless you’ve lived in the country, “you don’t get it,” and can’t have any opinions about Israel. That’s absurd, but there’s still nothing like first hand experience. The summer after my sophomore year of high school I was in Israel with two good school friends of [...]

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