The Fall of Afghanistan Will Strengthen the Abraham Accords—for All the Wrong Reasons
Perceiving American weakness, Arabs and Israelis will have to work together.
August 17, 2021
The Unbridgeable Gulf between the Israeli Left and the American Left
A book calling for the Jewish state’s elimination will do little more than provoke hatred for Jews and Israel.
In a recent book, the Israeli-born philosophy professor Omri Boehm argues that the Jewish state should be dismantled and replaced with some sort of confederation of Jews and Arabs as a means of preserving “liberal Zionism.” Having read a review of Boehm’s book by the American scholar of Ḥasidism Shaul Magid, Daniel Gordis is struck not so much by the poverty of the arguments themselves, but by the strangeness of the very discussion: an American Jewish post-Zionist who lived in Israel during the 1980s is examining the views of an Israeli post-Zionist who likewise hasn’t lived in the country for over a decade. Gordis writes:
August 17, 2021
The Unbridgeable Gulf between the Israeli Left and the American Left
A book calling for the Jewish state’s elimination will do little more than provoke hatred for Jews and Israel.
Hatred of Israel Sowed the Seeds of Lebanon’s Collapse
First the PLO, and then Hizballah, destabilized the country to fight Israel.
The Unexpected Links between Yiddish and Arabic
New borrowings and old ones.
Archaeologists Discover New Evidence of the Biblical Siege of Gath
When the Arameans destroyed the hometown of Goliath.