In Looking to the West, India Is Increasingly Looking toward Israel
Commercial ties are paving the way for a strategic alliance.
January 20, 2023
Jordan’s Growing Belligerence toward Israel
Supporting Palestinian lawfare is a useful distraction from economic problems.
Since the signing of the 1994 peace treaty, there have been comparatively good relations between Amman and Jerusalem. Jordan depends heavily on the IDF to maintain its security, and Israel views any threat to the kingdom’s sovereignty as a threat to itself. But in recent years the relationship has become increasingly frosty, and since 2020 King Abdullah has worried that, in the event of a Saudi-Israeli peace agreement, the house of Saud will usurp his own dynasty’s special status as guarantor of the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem. Yoni Ben Menachem comments:
January 20, 2023
Jordan’s Growing Belligerence toward Israel
Supporting Palestinian lawfare is a useful distraction from economic problems.
Elie Wiesel’s Lost Essay about a Great Work of Holocaust Poetry
Poems from the Sea of Death.
Abraham Lincoln’s Religious Mind
For Lincoln, perpetuating American slavery beckoned the Lord’s wrath.
Autistic Soldiers Find Their Place in the IDF
Not a disability, but an asset.