What Donald Trump Gets Right about Israel and the Arabs
The Middle East has too often been a screen onto which outsiders project their own psychodramas.
October 17, 2019
Alienating Arabs, and a Last-Minute Campaign for Video Cameras at Polling Centers, May Have Cost the Likud the Election
Lessons for the Israeli right.
Following Israel’s most recent election, the Likud party finds itself at a disadvantage in comparison with its situation after the earlier elections in April. Evelyn Gordon contends that center-right voters defected to other parties or stayed home on election day because of mistakes made by the Likud’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu:
October 17, 2019
A New Biography Distorts History to Defame Ben-Gurion
Israel’s first prime minister was no enthusiast of ethnic cleansing.
Alienating Arabs, and a Last-Minute Campaign for Video Cameras at Polling Centers, May Have Cost the Likud the Election
Lessons for the Israeli right.
Moses Mendelssohn, Idolatry, and Baseball Cards
Mistaking the sign for the thing itself.
The Etrog’s Magical—and Literary—Power
In Ashkenazi folklore, the fruit was a charm for fertility.