As America Refocuses on Its Foreign-Policy Priorities, the End of the “Peace Process” May Have Finally Arrived
The least relevant deal of all.
October 2, 2019
As America Refocuses on Its Foreign-Policy Priorities, the End of the “Peace Process” May Have Finally Arrived
The least relevant deal of all.
President Trump has called a permanent agreement between Israel and the Palestinians “the toughest deal of all,” but Tony Badran notes that it might also be “the least relevant,” or at least close to it. It seems that the Trump administration may realize this—as evidenced, inter alia, by its slowness to unveil its peace plan. Badran explains how, following the end of the cold war, conventional wisdom grossly inflated the importance of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and welcomes a shift away from such distorted thinking:
October 2, 2019
The Story of Cyrus the Great, Invoked by Harry Truman, Is a Cautionary as Well as a Hopeful Tale
The first movement against the Jewish right to Jerusalem.
By Attacking Saudi Arabia, Iran Has Taken a Step Beyond Proxy Warfare
So long as they go unpunished, the ayatollahs will escalate.
Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Philosophy of Jewish History, Cultivated During Nazi Rule
In This Hour.
Commemorating the Australian Aborigines Who Fought to Liberate the Land of Israel from the Ottoman Empire
A daring, and successful, World War I cavalry charge.