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Jerold S. Auerbach

Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of 12 books, including Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel (1896-2016) and Israel 1896-2016, selected for Mosaic by Ruth Wisse and Martin Kramer as a “Best Book for 2019.”

“Returning” is more accurate. It is, by history and under international law, Jewish land.
Exposing the complicity of the United Nations in contriving and sustaining the never-ending Palestinian refugee scam, Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf have served the cause of historical integrity
If what is outlined as part of the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan goes forward, this may yet be recorded by historians as the golden age of Israel-American relations.
Coexistence with Israel under any circumstances, even including assurance of massive American economic investment, would not be worth relinquishing the decades of hostility that are embedded in Palestinian identity. Their rigid reluctance to engage in negotiations with Israel long ago doomed any peace prospects.
Over years of conflict with the Palestinian Arabs, Israel was to be blamed for its failure to adhere to its “biblical-moral tradition.” Lately, some promise exists for change.
How could a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, who served as Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief between 1984-88 and a columnist ever since, endorse Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for anything but a kindergarten class on Israel and the Middle East?
From an early age, I was left alone, free to choose my own interior journey. Solitude was my safe retreat—and best of all, it was always available.
Author Daniel Gordis traces and explores “the more central causes of the complex, fraught, love-filled, hate-filled relationship” between American Jews and Zionists” before and since the birth of Israel.
For the Columbia University professor, Palestinians are the Native Americans of the Middle East. He imagines “parallels” between “the resistance of Native Americans to their dispossession and that of the Palestinians.” But his futile search for parallels exposes the spurious nature of his claim.
For assimilated Jews of a liberal persuasion who are as critical of Israel as Sanders, his election doubtlessly would be cause for celebration.
In Hebron, the kindness and cordiality that she effusively displayed towards West Bank Palestinians quickly vanishes as she focuses on the Jewish Quarter.
If implemented, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan will reaffirm the right of Jews to continue to inhabit a substantial portion of their biblical homeland, which is what Zionism is all about.