Why the U.S. Should Stand with Saudi Arabia in Its War in Yemen
No sane government would accept Iranian missiles on its border.
December 4, 2018
Remembering What George H.W. Bush Did for the Jews, Even within a Decidedly Mixed Legacy
The late president helped bring Jews to the land of Israel.
While the first President Bush, who died on Friday at the age of ninety-four, did not always have easy relations with Israel and the American Jewish community—most notably, his administration convened the 1991 Madrid conference, which helped to legitimize the PLO and to pave the way for the Oslo Accords—it was in his tenure that, thanks largely to the efforts of John Bolton, then an assistant secretary of state, the UN was induced to rescind its infamous 1975 Zionism-is-racism resolution. Bush also did much specifically to help Jews. Ron Kampeas notes that when Bush served as the U.S. ambassador to the UN during the Nixon administration, he “made Soviet Jewry one of his signature issues.” And these efforts continued thereafter:
December 4, 2018
Why the Slogan “From the River to the Sea . . . ” Is a Call for the Destruction of Israel
Palestine will be free—of Jews.
Remembering What George H.W. Bush Did for the Jews, Even within a Decidedly Mixed Legacy
The late president helped bring Jews to the land of Israel.
A 19th-Century Poem Celebrating the Maccabees, and the Jews’ Place in England
Marion and Celia Moss, poets “of the Hebrew nation.”
A Cuneiform Tablet Is Rare Evidence of Babylonian Presence in Samaria
A 6th-century-BCE record of purchasing a slave.