China’s Growing Military Alliance with Iran
Each wants to supplant America’s dominance in its region.
November 22, 2016
Fatah Fades into Irrelevance
It’s lost the support of its people and its former Arab patrons.
Next week, some 1,400 people will gather in Ramallah for the Fatah party’s Seventh General Congress. Fatah dominated the PLO for decades under the leadership of Yasir Arafat, and now controls the Palestinian Authority. But the organization, writes Elliott Abrams, has alienated most of the Sunni Arab countries that were once its patrons—and that have recently been improving their ties with Israel. It is also unpopular with its own people, and is poised to fade into irrelevance:
November 22, 2016
Anti-Semitism Isn’t Back. It Never Went Away.
Only now the ADL and Mayor de Blasio have taken notice.
Fatah Fades into Irrelevance
It’s lost the support of its people and its former Arab patrons.
Ancient Egyptian Tablets May Contain the Earliest Known Form of Hebrew
They might even mention Joseph and Moses.
Making Sense of S. Y. Agnon’s Allusions
The art of annotation.