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Jun 20, 2018, 7:11 PM

The Palestinian Authority as a mental institution

Once I read somewhere a political joke, which to the best of my recollection was to the effect that the difference between Israel and a mental hospital is that the latter is run by sane adults. Whoever thought of the...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

May 31, 2018, 4:21 PM

The Seven Books of the Torah

In Parshat Behaalotcha, we find two verses from Bamidbar 10:35-36 which we have been saying since the 13th century, each time the Torah is removed from the ark and replaced, “Vayehi binsoah ha’aron…”, “When the ark would journey, Moshe...

May 31, 2018, 6:43 AM

Eitan Cabel’s wrongs and rights

Cabel’s Wrongs MK Eitan Cabel’s Annexation Plan, publicized in The Times of Israel last week, has caused quite the commotion on the Israeli Left as a whole – and in the Labor party (and the alliance it belongs to –...

Irina Tsukerman

May 23, 2018, 6:20 AM

Israel keeps winning on Hasbara, losing information warfare battles

As I have suggested now two years ago, Israel has actually been quite successful in Hasbara (the outreach aiming to highlight its positive cultural attributes). Further evidence of the success of these efforts includes unequivocal opinion victory at the...

Raymond M. Berger

May 16, 2018, 7:27 PM

The Day after Israel Discovers the Cure for Cancer

What would happen if Israel discovered the cure for cancer? This month Israeli researchers at Ben Gurion University announced a medical breakthrough: a safe and effective treatment for cancer.1 The new vaccine, dubbed the Maccabee, harnesses the body’s own immune cells...

May 8, 2018, 11:22 AM

Open letter to Chilean President on this week’s visit of Holocaust-denying anti-Semite Mahmoud Abbas to Santiago

Paris and Buenos Aires, 7 May H.E. Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique President of Chile Santiago Mr.President, We have learned that you will be receiving this week the Holocaust denying antisemitic Palestinian President, Mahmud Abbas We understand that Chile has the largest number of citizens of...

Dmitri Shufutinsky

May 5, 2018, 10:15 AM

Is a Pan-Semitic Nationalism Emerging in the Middle East?

This year so far has been unprecedented in terms of Arab-Israeli cooperation and--dare I say--coexistence. The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, has both accepted Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state (the first Arab leader to do...

May 4, 2018, 12:38 PM

Will straight up Jew-hating hit Abbas in the pocket ? Not from the EU it won’t.

Well, this is awkward. The European Institutions are trying -- quite creatively as it happens given the difficult structures of their budget rules- to find ways of pulling the ‘illiberal democracies’ of certain Eastern European Member States into line by...

David E. Weisberg

May 4, 2018, 7:40 AM

Abbas is anti-Semitic, and it doesn’t matter

Okay, so it’s been confirmed. Mahmoud Abbas has talked endlessly about wanting to create an independent Palestine in harmony and at peace with its neighbor, the world’s only Jewish-majority state. But it turns out that he still espouses the...

May 3, 2018, 9:35 PM

Thoughts on David Horovitz’s Interview with Yossi Klein Halevi: Towards Real Solutions

This is a good article by Horovitz and a very important read. I just preordered the book which has now moved to the top of my 'to read' list. I've long identified and written about the Israeli 'Right' and...

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