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Jun 12, 2018, 12:52 PM

Kishinev pogroms in, Farhud carnage out

I am amazed every time anew when I speak with an Israeli intellectual who tells me “Jews received very good treatment in Arab states, they were well off there.” This statement does not at all reflect the historical reality...

Mar 5, 2018, 2:20 PM

Does the peace process need Donald Trump?

US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 16, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)

The US president's brash disregard for convention may just get Israelis and Palestinians to make a deal

Dec 29, 2017, 2:36 PM

The Mideast haven of Israel

Illustrative: Coptic monk decorates a Christmas tree in the Old City of Jerusalem. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

I live in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, and it's true: only the Jewish state treats us Christians well

Michael J. Koplow

Dec 7, 2017, 8:42 AM

The US Embassy winners and losers

US President Donald Trump delivers a statement on Jerusalem from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 6, 2017. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Symbolic measures matter in the Middle East, so Trump may have just killed his peace plan

Nov 17, 2017, 1:24 PM

Celebrate and commemorate impact on Jews from Arab countries

2017 has been quite a year for anniversaries: we've celebrated the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, and 50 years since Israel's lightning victory in the Six Day War and the reunification of Jerusalem. On 29 November looms another cause...

Mar 27, 2017, 3:05 PM

An Israeli in Bahrain

He engaged with the supposed enemy -- debating, laughing, befriending, holding his tongue, and never truly afraid

Mar 23, 2017, 5:50 PM

Higher walls won't bring peace

Israelis and Palestinians are colleagues and friends across industrial zones in Judea and Samaria -- coexistence is a given

Mar 22, 2017, 5:12 AM

Algeria, where are your Jews?

UN Watch silences the Arab countries' condemnation of Israel as an apartheid state, in the UNHRC

Mar 17, 2017, 3:01 AM

When King Hussein paid a shiva call

In this Sunday, March 16, 1997 file photo, King Hussein of Jordan shakes the hand of members of the Badayev family in Beit Shemesh who were in mourning after their daughter Shiri was killed by a Jordanian soldier. King Hussein came to Israel to offer condolences to the seven families who lost their daughters in an attack on a class trip. The Jordanian soldier who killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in a 1997 shooting rampage was released Sunday, March 12, 2017, after serving 20 years in prison. (AP PHOTO/GPO/HO, File)

He longs for peace 20 years after the murder of his daughter and 6 other girls, as their murderer completes his life sentence

Chana Gable Selmon

Jan 31, 2017, 12:09 PM

Yemenites in Brooklyn

In the aftermath of 9/11, every foreign national was suspect -- until you sat together for a cup of tea

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