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Jan 16, 2025, 11:59 PM

Prisoner Exchanges and Strategic Losses: Rethinking Israel’s War Efforts

According to former statesman Shimon Peres z”l, when the partition plan authorizing the division of the land into a Jewish and Arab state was decided upon by the UN in 1947, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding Prime Minister, wasn’t happy....

James M. Dorsey

Jan 16, 2025, 12:22 PM

Trump puts Israelis and Palestinians on a knife’s edge

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may welcome two Middle East policy goals articulated by US President-elect Donald J. Trump in response to the Gaza ceasefire but may not like what it will take to achieve them. The same is true...

Jan 16, 2025, 10:40 AM

The good news and the bad news about the agreement between Israel and Hamas

wiki commons images. The Kidnapped and Missing Square in the plaza of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

During the good ol’ days of the Oslo Peace Process in the 1990s, I often began my lectures about Interreligious Dialogue and Peacebuilding to groups from abroad and to audiences in the USA and Europe, with the following statement:...

Tomasz Cebulski

Jan 15, 2025, 10:32 PM

Is the 80th Anniversary of Auschwitz liberation about survivors or Netanyahu?

The theater of politics stages more and more often tragicomedies. Absurd ideas and ridiculous acts expressed with dramatic seriousness start to have tragic consequences for the polarized and less and less amused audience. If it were not for polarization...

Jan 14, 2025, 8:35 PM

The tail that wagged the dog

Blinken was right to present his plan for the 'day after' in Gaza, but Bibi wouldn't hear of it. Maybe Trump's administration will actually manage to implement it

Jan 14, 2025, 3:08 PM

Hostage deal: My rant on it.

Picture from the previous hostage deal in late 2023 (Google images)

Trump said that if the hostages currently in gaza were not released by the time he gets inaugurated (in about a week from now), there would be "hell to pay." This got both Yisrael and Hamas on the edge. Now,...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jan 10, 2025, 9:06 AM

Te’kumah? What Bibi Got Right (and Wrong)

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu is a master of public relations. Indeed, one could teach an entire course on PR just using his numerous masterful “spins” over the years. In large part, that mastery explains his longest-running tenure as PM...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jan 8, 2025, 3:22 AM

Israeli guilt and innocence regarding the October 7 pogrom from Gaza

The time of reckoning is coming closer It is very clear that the guilt lies with the Antisemites bent on genocide. Yet, it must also be determined if anyone in the State of Israel can be charged with carelessness. Many probes...

Stephen I. Siller

Jan 7, 2025, 3:05 AM

Progressives Reimagined Hitler, Lied, and Lost, 2024 – Lessons for Israel and Jews Worldwide

Propagandists “reimagine” what they hate into whatever aligns with their message of the moment no matter how ludicrous. Reimagination language is used to maintain or to achieve power and in that process to denigrate their opponents. Lefty storytellers reimagined...

Nina B. Mogilnik

Jan 6, 2025, 1:09 PM

Long Past Time to Name Names

I promised myself that I would avoid the news after Biden won in 2020. The years before had been a nonstop deluge of awfulness under Trump, one crisis, embarrassment, or worse, after another. I stuck to my plan well,...

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