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Aug 15, 2019, 7:55 PM
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‘The Squad’ of Cowards
Three million people under siege. Constant bombardment by air and land since April. Hospitals, schools, markets, and even bread bakeries targeted. Civilian deaths, mostly women and children, in the tens of thousands. Numerous aid organizations are warning that a...
Dec 19, 2018, 6:38 PM
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Habitat for Insanity
One of my favorite things to do is read the weekend section of the Financial Times. Their two feature sections, House & Home and Life & Arts, printed on their signature pink pages, usually provide a week’s worth of...
Dec 10, 2018, 5:37 PM
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Jews in Conflict: Israel’s Right and America’s Left
I recently returned from my annual visit to Israel. Amidst the flourishing tech economy, beautiful weather, creative energy in the visual arts, music, food, and cinema, I found a deep strain of venom. I cannot remember anything like it...
Aug 21, 2018, 8:20 PM
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Shalom, Shin Bet: I’m coming to Israel
I am not Peter Beinart, but I wish I were. I have read Peter’s writings for years and once got the chance to have dinner with him. As I told him then, he is my “intellectual hero.” I only...
May 30, 2018, 6:27 PM
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Gaza: Jihad’s Latest Graveyard
Hamas's latest defeat is a victory in an epic Islamic battle between violent fundamentalism and social progress
Apr 5, 2018, 1:31 AM
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There’s a New Islamic Leader in Town
“A reformed Saudi Arabia could defeat terror at its roots. A radicalized Saudi Arabia could rock the global economy and destabilize the entire Middle East." Madeleine Albright, 2003 By any measure, two events with game-changing significance occurred last week. The first was...
Dec 14, 2015, 7:35 PM
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Fox News: The Digital Beer Hall
Where Ghosts Walked: Munich’s Road to the Third Reich is a fascinating book by historian David Clay Large. Written in 1977, it’s a gripping account of the post World War I beer hall culture of hysteria, inflamed passions, and...
Apr 8, 2015, 4:28 AM
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Islamic Street Brawl
With the start of Operation Decisive Storm (the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen), there are now three Arab countries tearing themselves apart: Syria, Libya and Yemen. In each country the fight has now devolved into a level of factionalism...
Mar 25, 2015, 11:13 PM
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Glass Houses and Stones
The past week has been a difficult one for Jewish political progressives in America. The lamenting about the re-election of Benjamin Netanyahu has been seemingly endless. For a while, those who believed in science – that is, the science...
Mar 11, 2015, 11:05 AM
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A She’elah to King Bibi
With Netanyahu’s recent Biblically-styled proclamation that he speaks for all the world’s Jews, I have officially become one of his constituents. Bibi has made himself “King of the Jews,” therefore I am one of his subjects. Yet since I...
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Jonathan Russo has been observing Israel and its policies since he first visited in 1966. He is a businessman in New York City.
