By Trying to Prevent Escalation in Lebanon, the U.S. Has Let It Happen
Death on a soccer field reveals the failures of American policy.
July 29, 2024
Could a Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation Work?
Alternatives to the two-state solution.
On Thursday, the London Arabic newspaper Al-Araby al-Jadeed published an article in favor of creating a Palestinian entity in the West Bank in confederation with Jordan. The author, Jawad al-Anani, doesn’t say so explicitly, but such an outcome would be far better for Jordan than the two-state solution so favored by international diplomats. After all, Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank most likely would lead to a Hamas takeover, and then violence spilling over the river into Jordan.
July 29, 2024
For Anti-Semites, a Jew Doesn’t Have to Live in Israel to be a Settler Colonialist
Condemned to eternal wandering.
Vladimir Nabokov’s Philo-Semitic Inheritance
And its appearance in his fiction.
Could a Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation Work?
Alternatives to the two-state solution.
The Hotels Are Long Gone, but There Is Now a Borscht Belt Museum
Food and humor.