Unrest in West Bank Refugee Camps Is a Sign of What Palestinian Statehood Might Bring
After 22 years, the PA hasn’t dismantled the camps.
November 7, 2016
How the Nuclear Deal Enriches the Most Dangerous Wing of the Iranian Regime
A windfall for the Revolutionary Guard’s economic empire.
Founded just after the 1979 revolution, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fields elite military and paramilitary units (now deployed throughout Iraq and Syria), engages in clandestine activities and support for terror abroad, and is responsible for the country’s nuclear and ballistic-missile programs. It also exerts sizable political influence and controls a significant portion of the Islamic Republic’s economy. In a comprehensive study, Emanuele Ottolenghi, Saeed Ghasseminejad, Annie Fixler, and Amir Toumaj explain the various avenues through which the nuclear agreement grants the IRGC new sources of funding, and what can be done to restrict these without violating the deal’s terms:
November 7, 2016
American and Israeli Jews, Compared
A tale of two Pew surveys.
How the Nuclear Deal Enriches the Most Dangerous Wing of the Iranian Regime
A windfall for the Revolutionary Guard’s economic empire.
Noah’s Rainbow as an Inversion of a Mesopotamian Symbol
A sign not of divine victory but of divine obligation.
The Last Jew of Afghanistan and His Almost-Vanished Community
Zebulon Simentov is still selling kosher kebabs in Kabul.