The First Political Prisoner Released by Mikhail Gorbachev Reflects on His Legacy
One cheer for the former dictator.
September 1, 2022
How the Abraham Accords Are Mitigating Israel-Palestinian Violence
Shrinking the conflict.
Following Israel’s groundbreaking peace treaties with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, skeptics in both the West and the Arab World condemned them as a betrayal of the Palestinian people—without any explanation of how over seven decades of Arab nonrecognition of the Jewish state has aided the Palestinians. Robert Cherry argues that, to the contrary, the Abraham Accords and Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy of “shrinking the conflict” rather than seeking grand solutions has contributed to the short duration and limited scope of last month’s fighting in Gaza:
September 1, 2022
Saudi Arabia Is Ridding Its Textbooks of Anti-Semitism, but the Rest of the Middle East Has a Long Way to Go
The UAE is the best; Iran and Houthi Yemen the worst.
How the Abraham Accords Are Mitigating Israel-Palestinian Violence
Shrinking the conflict.
Penitential Prayers Require Penitential Deeds
“Just as He is compassionate and merciful, so too should you be compassionate and merciful.”
A 1,000-Year-Old Mass Grave in England May Contain Victims of an Anti-Semitic Massacre
And evidence of the antiquity of Ashkenazi genetic disease.