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Be confident, though, that the debate about World War II will continue to reverberate into the country’s contemporary politics.
The triumph of a political candidate in Queens, N.Y., illustrates the widening partisan divide on Israel and much else.
The key point that the West cannot grasp is that Palestinian rejectionism is at source a fanatical Islamic religious movement.
The Poles still need to be ashamed that after everything they did—to me, to my family and to my people—that they even thought to make a law like this.
Jewish opposition to Trump on immigration is rooted in sympathy for the downtrodden. But the current debate is more about partisanship and hysteria than anything else.
Like the Jews, the Macedonians have been in the unusual position of having to justify their status as a nation entitled to join the international society of states.
The passing of an erudite commentator is particularly painful not just because of his brilliance, but because his rational approach to politics and thought has gone out of fashion.
The relative quiet since 2014 made some Israelis think that their security dilemma was solved. The recent violence undermines that assumption and should impact any discussion about the West Bank.
It’s easy to see why the Palestinian Authority would have been offended by Prince Charles’ visit to his relatives’ graves in 2016—and why they will be unhappy if Prince William wants to do likewise.
We had absorbed the certain knowledge that any political system in which opposition is proscribed and dissidents are locked up in atrocious conditions can never be truly legitimate because, as 1989 reminded us with a jolt, political legitimacy is rooted in the informed consent of the people.
The world body’s routine hypocrisy and prejudice—this time about attacks from Gaza—normalizes hate.