In Rejecting the Bahrain Conference, Palestinian Leaders Keep Faith with Their Long-Range Intentions
Neither peace nor prosperity is Mahmoud Abbas’s goal.
July 11, 2019
In Rejecting the Bahrain Conference, Palestinian Leaders Keep Faith with Their Long-Range Intentions
Neither peace nor prosperity is Mahmoud Abbas’s goal.
The Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to boycott the recent conference in Bahrain, where the U.S. and Arab states proposed spending $50 billion to improve his people’s economic conditions, has brought to mind Abba Eban’s famous quip that Palestinians “never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” But, writes Zalman Shoval, this interpretation of Abbas’s decision-making, like Jared Kushner’s recent statement that Palestinian leaders made a “strategic mistake” by refusing to come to Bahrain, rests on false assumptions about his goals.
July 11, 2019
Iran Never Converted a Key Nuclear-Weapons Site into a Civilian Facility. (But It Did Equip It with Sophisticated Missiles)
Fordow can return to high enrichment at a moment’s notice.
The Many Deceits of Edward Said
And their anti-Israel consequences.
Can Jewish Thought Flourish as Judaism Becomes Increasingly Out of Step with American Culture?
Seven decades of Tradition.
How Batya Gur Created Classic Detective Fiction in an Israeli Key
Tightknit communities as stand-ins for a society at large.