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Sep 30, 2024, 9:40 PM

Can the Arab World Survive Until 2079?

In 1979, two events took place which shook the Middle East to its core and still reverberate today. The first of course was the Iranian revolution. This swept out the authoritarian, often brutal pro-Western Shah of Iran and replaced...

Aug 29, 2024, 8:03 PM

Thanks to Israel and Ukraine, America Ascendant

The past few weeks have been very difficult for Russia’s Vladimir Putin. For the first time since World War II, Russia is being invaded by a foreign army. This also marks the first time that a non-nuclear power is...

Jun 23, 2024, 3:53 PM

Would Harriet Tubman Have Led the Israeli Hostage Rescue Mission?

During the years immediately preceding the start of the American Civil War in 1861, Harriet Tubman, the most famous leader of raids to free Black slaves, herself escaped from bondage in the South to freedom in the North. Once...

Jun 12, 2024, 2:00 AM

The IDF Becomes the ICJ’s Chief Enforcer

On Shabbat morning, June 8, 2024, the Israel Defense Forces became the enforcement arm of the International Court of Justice. Five months after ruling in Paragraph 85 of its opinion in the original South Africa case accusing Israel of...

Jun 5, 2024, 12:01 AM

Israel Burns, Greta Cheers

Massive Hezbollah bombing of Israel's north caused large forest fires to erupt, causing substantial damage. By early this week, the fires had consumed nearly 10,000 dunams (about 2,500 acres), with more rockets being fired daily into the hot, dry...

Apr 1, 2024, 11:18 PM

International law for thee but not for me

Why has the Court's call for the immediate and unconditional release of Israeli hostages gotten lost in the public discourse?

Mar 6, 2024, 8:41 AM

Israel, Gaza and the Pacific war in World War II

When the Japanese Imperial Air Force attacked the United States' Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, they knew that Japan could not invade the United States and conquer it. What Japan could do, however, was...

Dec 6, 2023, 6:28 PM

Operation Ben Zakkai

If you ask who is the most important person in Jewish history you're likely to get the following answers: Abraham; Moses; King David; King Solomon; Rashii; or maybe David Ben Gurion. I submit that all of these are wrong. The...

Nov 21, 2023, 11:45 PM

The Geopolitics of American Support for Israel

To understand the geopolitics behind the Biden Administration's support of Israel in its war with Hamas, a good place to start is with a statement earlier this year that had nothing to do with the Middle East. Following a...

Nov 17, 2023, 10:47 PM

Israel Loses the World, Yet Finds Itself

Monitoring the tragic situation in the Middle East from the relative security of the United States (and I do mean relative, given the explosion of international antisemitism), I am struck by two major currents developing in opposite directions. It's clear...

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Daniel B, Markind is an attorney based in Philadelphia specializing in real estate, commercial, energy and aviation law. He is the former Chair of the National Legal Committee of the Jewish National Fund of America as well as being a former member of the National Executive Board and the National Chair of the JNF National Future Leadership. He writes frequently on Middle Eastern and energy issues. Mr. Markind lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife and children.

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