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Norman L. Cantor
Nov 20, 2024, 11:23 PM
Palestinian Rejections of a 2-State Solution
Once upon a time, anti-Israel agitation focused on Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the principal demand was Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders – i.e., to the agreed armistice lines at the conclusion of the 1948 war...
Philip Earl Steele
Jun 30, 2024, 1:41 PM
Opportunities seized – others not: reflections on Theodor Herzl’s 120th jahrzeit
120 years ago this week – July 3, 1904 – Theodor Herzl died at the age of 44 in the Alpine village of Edlach, not far from Vienna. The Father of Zionism, as he is known, had converted to...
John Hartley
Jun 18, 2024, 7:07 PM
Vladimir Solovyov: Israel, axis of world history
Decades before the Balfour Declaration, the 19th century Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov referred to the Jews as the chosen people, the theocratic people par excellence… the axis of universal history. Such a conviction reflects Solovyov’s recognition of the indissolubility...
Harold Behr
Jun 11, 2024, 8:11 PM
My Zionism reinforced by an infusion of Isaiah Berlin
I was recently heartened by my discovery of a letter written by Sir Isaiah Berlin, the Oxford-based scholar and philosopher, to his friend Alastair Cooke, journalist and broadcaster noted for his BBC series, “Letter from America”, in which he...
Mort Laitner
May 11, 2024, 10:44 PM
Connecting the Dots
As I prepared for my Jewish American Heritage Month Lecture, I read my outline and thought, "This outline might be a useful tool for other lecturers or TOI bloggers." So I published it. And I challenged my readers try to...
Christian Rudolf Hamann
May 1, 2024, 9:53 PM
Sustainable Peace Plan for the Middle East – Short Version
The unheeded threat The growing antisemitism and propaganda war since October 7 show that Jews and Israel have many influential opponents in the West. In contrast, behind the Palestinians in Gaza and Hamas there is an Arab and Islamic...
Christian Rudolf Hamann
Apr 20, 2024, 9:31 PM
Sustainable Peace Plan for the Middle East
The Ignored Threat The growing antisemitism and propaganda war against Israel since October 7th has shown that Jews and the Jewish state have many remarkably influential opponents in the West, while they are largely left alone in the confrontation...
Bryan Moselle
Feb 27, 2024, 6:17 PM
A Tree is Known by it’s Fruit
The leadership of the Palestinian territories are the greatest threat to the welfare of those living within those territories as well as those living in Israel. Examining the fruit of the Palestinian leadership will tell you what kind of...
Michael Jackson
Feb 20, 2024, 12:02 AM
The Balfour Declaration Revisited
The Balfour Declaration was in a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain. It was sent on November 2nd, 1917, just a few days before the British...
Mel Alexenberg
Dec 25, 2023, 5:59 PM
Wave Flags that Tell the Truth
Having been professor of art and education at Columbia University and research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, I am an expert on the power of visual images. However, anyone can see the radical difference between the...
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