Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Josef Olmert http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Wed, 22 May 2013 22:07:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Israel and Syria – can we square the circle? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-and-syria-can-we-square-the-circle/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-and-syria-can-we-square-the-circle/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 15:22:37 +0000 Josef Olmert http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=127828 Syria has traditionally prided itself as the ‘’heart of Arabism’’, the championOf the Pan-Arab ideology and consequently as the Arab country most dedicated to Pursue the anti-Zionist struggle. Syria, according to a widely-held notion there, was the one Arab country most badly affected by So-called ‘’western imperialism machinations’’, as it lost Lebanon in 1920, and [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/american-public-opinion-and-israel-the-honey-and-the-sting/feed/ 2 Thank God the Jews are out of Syria http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/thank-god-the-jews-are-out-of-syria/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/thank-god-the-jews-are-out-of-syria/#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:30:43 +0000 Josef Olmert http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=89390 It was on November 4, 1991, the last day of the historic Madrid peace conference, and delegations from Israel and Syria were supposed to meet, face-to-face, for the first time since 1949, to discuss peace. In itself an historic event, as Syria has always prided itself on being Israel’s most implacable Arab enemy. But then, [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/thank-god-the-jews-are-out-of-syria/feed/ 3 Beinart serves up hot air instead of useful debate http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/beinart-serves-up-hot-air-instead-of-useful-debate/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/beinart-serves-up-hot-air-instead-of-useful-debate/#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:37:57 +0000 Josef Olmert http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=86344 Peter Beinart strikes again, this time in Newsweek, a dying magazine, where he explains to his readership [luckily enough, not too big], why and how the White House will punish Israel. Simply by ignoring it, letting it be subjected to brutal European pressure, designed to force PM Netanyahu to make the concessions that Beinart and his [...]

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