Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » David Kaufman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 05:42:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 We Are For Israel Responds to 100 Jewish Leaders Letter http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-are-for-israel-responds-to-100-jewish-leaders-letter/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-are-for-israel-responds-to-100-jewish-leaders-letter/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:53:07 +0000 David Kaufman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=116522 We Are For Israel has been asked to offer a response to the letter written by 100 American Jewish Leaders seeking that Israel work with Secretary of State Kerry to produce a plan demonstrating “Israel’s readiness to make painful territorial concessions for the sake of peace” as an inducement hoping to bring the Palestinian Authority to [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-feint-left/feed/ 6 The E-1 Gambit Explained http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-e-1-gambit-explained/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-e-1-gambit-explained/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:51:50 +0000 David Kaufman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=84594 I have read many articles and seen more statements about Israel’s plans to build in E-1 than I can number. Most have one thing in common. They are based in a fantasy world in which it is 1966, except for the Oslo thing, the past 46 years have not occurred, the PA controls both the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/refugees-and-foreign-policy/feed/ 0 The UN, Israel, and War in Sudan http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-un-israel-and-war-in-sudan/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-un-israel-and-war-in-sudan/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:46:18 +0000 David Kaufman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=17524 As an advocate for Israel, I am well aware of the fact that the United Nations is often wrong. Too often, the United Nations acts like a parent who does not care why children are crying and simply orders them to “Shut up!” It does not matter to the UN who wronged whom, who has [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-un-israel-and-war-in-sudan/feed/ 0 From Darfur to Nuba: A Transfer of Genocide http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-darfur-to-nuba-a-transfer-of-genocide/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-darfur-to-nuba-a-transfer-of-genocide/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:41:47 +0000 David Kaufman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=15608 This week, Ahmed Harun, Governor of South Kordofan was shown in a video saying that his soldiers should “take no prisoners” in the fighting in the southern part of Sudan. As Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), noted: ‘Take no prisoners’ means a crime against humanity or a war crime, because if [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-darfur-to-nuba-a-transfer-of-genocide/feed/ 0 Pinkwashing? Pink-eye! http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/pinkwashing-no-pink-eye-yes/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/pinkwashing-no-pink-eye-yes/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:07:46 +0000 David Kaufman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=14046 There are no few on the left who argue that Israel tries to use its record of support for Gay-Lesbian-Bi-Sexual-Transgender (GLBT) rights as a way of covering up its “problematic” record on Palestinian rights. This is termed “pinkwashing.” Last year, Sarah Schulman wrote a controversial op-ed on pinkwashing, which has received no small attention among the adherents [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/pinkwashing-no-pink-eye-yes/feed/ 3 Can one be a bad Zionist? A response to Amos Oz http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/is-it-possible-to-be-a-bad-zionist-responding-to-amos-oz-at-j-street/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/is-it-possible-to-be-a-bad-zionist-responding-to-amos-oz-at-j-street/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:17:36 +0000 David Kaufman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=12206 Israeli writer Amos Oz offered some remarks at the J Street conference in Washington DC which I believe need to be addressed. Oz stated in reference to a suggestion that American Jews should be united in support of Israel that: Let us all be united, but why unite under the militant, hawkish, extremist manner of AIPAC? [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/is-it-possible-to-be-a-bad-zionist-responding-to-amos-oz-at-j-street/feed/ 3 Boycott the Haters! Don’t blame the Jews for the lack of peace! http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/boycott-the-haters-dont-blame-the-jews-for-the-lack-of-peace/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/boycott-the-haters-dont-blame-the-jews-for-the-lack-of-peace/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:34:27 +0000 David Kaufman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=9642 Waking up one morning this week to a combination of news about the horrific drive by murder of Jewish school children in Toulouse, France and Peter Beinart’s misguided call for BDS (Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions) to be employed against Israeli settlements, I feel that what I was already planning to write about the evolving culture of blaming the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/boycott-the-haters-dont-blame-the-jews-for-the-lack-of-peace/feed/ 9 The Warmongering Jews – Deja Vu WWII http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-warmongering-jews-deja-vu-wwii/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-warmongering-jews-deja-vu-wwii/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:58:29 +0000 David Kaufman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=7285 It is now two years since this latest European war began. From that day in September, 1939, until the present moment, there has been an over-increasing effort to force the United States into the conflict. That effort has been carried on by foreign interests, and by a small minority of our own people; but it has [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-capability-gap/feed/ 0 The Sudanese and the Jews http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-sudanese-and-the-jews/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-sudanese-and-the-jews/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:06:18 +0000 David Kaufman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=2395 My synagogue recently hosted a program about the crisis in the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan. Several Sudanese Christian and Muslim leaders from South Sudan, Darfur, and the Nuba Mountain region attended and spoke. Some of them have become friends over the past few years, as I have worked to end the genocide in Darfur and to advocate [...]

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