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How many Jews live in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco? Where are the Jews who are considered to be everywhere? These are the apartheid states who implemented ethnic cleansing.
If you think “settlers” have it coming, then like a new HBO film, you’re missing the point about why Oslo failed.
Those who knew him think of “how the mighty have fallen.” He was a devout adherent to the laws of Judaism, he studied hard, and he fearlessly defended Israel and the Jewish nation against those he perceived to be fighting against Jewish values.
Those who cried collusion about contacts with Russia are silent about the former secretary of state’s “strategizing” with Iran to save the 2015 nuclear deal.
Reactions to Cynthia Nixon’s run for governor of New York State illustrate the growing chasm between liberal and Orthodox Jews as well as any population survey.
The message of adding “equality” to the law would be that Israel’s Jewish and democratic identities aren’t equal; rather, its democratic identity has primacy over its Jewish one. That’s the very situation the nation-state law was meant to correct.
The imperative to learn from our mistakes and make amends isn’t consistent with intolerance for and refusing to listen to opposing views.
Though a simple act, Tashlich carries a very important message. The great insight of this ritual is that to cleanse something requires action.
Given the number of occasions that British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn publicly defended the Soviet regime, he was clearly well aware of Moscow’s stance on all the key international matters of the time, as well as its propaganda practices.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was bashed for extolling strength and deploring weakness. The ongoing slaughter in Syria illustrates the wisdom of his sentiment.
Only when the enormity of the Holocaust was finally revealed after the war did hatred of Jews become unsayable. It went underground—until the left’s adoption of the Palestinian narrative made it sayable again.
Most Israelis understand they were duped. Why does the foreign-policy establishment still resist learning from history?