Learning the Lessons of Israel’s War of Attrition with Egypt
Not the last time Western powers encouraged Israel to make concessions without receiving peace in return.
June 10, 2020
No Historic Duty toward Other Men Should Prevent Jews from Attending to Their Own Difficulties
The late Tunisian-Jewish intellectual wonders if he is a traitor.
A brilliant novelist and political thinker, Albert Memmi was one of the most influential theorists of anticolonialism, as well as a proud Jew and a defender of Israel who painted vivid portraits of North African Jewish life in both his fiction and nonfiction. Memmi, who was born in Tunisia in 1920, died in Paris last month. In 1962, when some 120,000 Jews left Algeria following its independence, he wrote an essay in Commentary about the Jewish future in the newly independent states of North Africa, which begins with a provocative question:
June 10, 2020
Political Deadlock and Pandemic Show the Weakness of Israel’s Cabinet Ministers
In praise of unelected bureaucrats.
Iran’s Coronavirus Disinformation Provides an Opportunity for the U.S.
Combat conspiracy theories with the truth.
No Historic Duty toward Other Men Should Prevent Jews from Attending to Their Own Difficulties
The late Tunisian-Jewish intellectual wonders if he is a traitor.
Why Bow before God?
Not an expression of indignity, but of commitment to being an agent of the divine will.