How Israel Helps Uphold the U.S.-Backed Liberal International Order
The moral blindness of condemning Jerusalem for its relations with Moscow.
October 16, 2019
How Israel Helps Uphold the U.S.-Backed Liberal International Order
The moral blindness of condemning Jerusalem for its relations with Moscow.
Seeking to reverse decades of diplomatic isolation, and in response to increasing hostility from Western Europe, Jerusalem in recent years has cultivated better relations with a variety of states, including some with unsavory rulers—ranging from the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte to Russia’s Vladimir Putin. While such a policy has provoked sharp criticism in some quarters, Seth Cropsey and Harry Halem explain that a small country like Israel does not have the luxury of disdaining potential allies, and, moreover, continues to do much to support American interests and with them the “liberal international order,” such as it is. Take the fraught case of its relations with Russia:
October 16, 2019
In the Face of Anti-Semitism, Angela Merkel Says Much and Does Little
Promising to fight anti-Semitism while shielding Hizballah.
How Dwight Eisenhower Came to the Jews’ Aid after the Holocaust
Helping to memorialize the Shoah and to protect survivors.
The Head of an Ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva and His Surprisingly Good Pseudonymous Novel
The Idiom and the Oddity.
The Ancient Greeks and Romans, but Not the Jews, Believed in Mythical Creatures
Dissecting a tendentious new-atheist attack on the Hebrew Bible.