The Internal Hamas Squabbles That Are Making Negotiations Harder
Both factions agree that Israel must be destroyed, but they disagree about Hamas’s current prospects.
July 21, 2025
Truth, Narratives, and the Middle East
Reminisces of Yasir Arafat and Edward Said’s nephew.
In the late 1980s, Jonathan Torop, a pro-Israel American Jew, befriended Ussama Makdisi, the son of a Lebanese father and Palestinian mother and the nephew of Edward Said. Makdisi is now a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and his comment, after the Hamas invasion of southern Israel—“I could have been one of those who broke the siege on October 7”—was brought up at the recent congressional hearings. Torop recollects the time when he and Makdisi could look beyond their political differences:
July 21, 2025
Israel’s Strategy in Syria
While the world sits silent, Jerusalem steps in to save the Druze.
Truth, Narratives, and the Middle East
Reminisces of Yasir Arafat and Edward Said’s nephew.
The Career and Death of New York’s First, and Last, Chief Rabbi
A lesson in Jewish political assertiveness.
The Pastor Who Founded Berlin’s First Hebrew Printing Press
Johannes Jablonski.
