In Railing against Israel, Mahmoud Abbas Helps His Sworn Rival
The PA’s anti-Jewish campaign inadvertently tells Palestinians that Hamas has it right.
December 28, 2018
In Railing against Israel, Mahmoud Abbas Helps His Sworn Rival
The PA’s anti-Jewish campaign inadvertently tells Palestinians that Hamas has it right.
In recent weeks, the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, along with senior members of his government, has taken to calling just about everything Israel or Israelis do a “crime,” writes Bassam Tawil. But this rhetoric—used to describe individual Jews visiting the Temple Mount, the Balfour Declaration, the killing of a terrorist in a shootout, and so forth—hardly benefits Abbas’s regime in its struggle with Hamas. Quite the contrary:
December 28, 2018
The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Shows the Futility of an “Arab NATO”
The myth of a shared Arab heritage.
For Israelis, Secular and Religious Alike, Jewishness Is as Natural as Breathing
No worries about “Jewish continuity.”
Did Maimonides Reform Jewish Law to Keep Jews Out of Islamic Courts?
A new study of Jewish law in the medieval Muslim world argues that he did.
An Ancient Persian Military Base Discovered in Northern Israel
Built for launching a campaign against Egypt.