Is Donald Trump Following in Barack Obama’s Footsteps in the Middle East?
The same people seem to be in charge.
March 20, 2017
Why Did the IDF, Accused of a War Crime, Conceal Evidence?
Some civilian deaths from 2009 weren’t Israel’s fault.
During the 2009 Gaza war, an explosion in the home of a highly regarded Palestinian doctor killed his three daughters and his niece and wounded other family members. Israeli troops had determined that an observation post in the building was being used to direct sniper fire against them and had just fired two artillery shells in response. There were thus naturally blamed for the deaths, and the incident soon became a symbol of the IDF’s supposed brutality, especially after the doctor, Izzeldin Abuelaish, wrote a book about it. But a month afterward, laboratory tests confirmed that at least some if not all of the casualties were caused not by the IDF but by Hamas explosives. Evelyn Gordon writes:
March 20, 2017
Egypt Is No Longer the Lodestar for the Arab World. But It Still Matters
And the U.S. must try to prevent it from collapse.
Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Anti-Semite and Jew,” Revisited
What an influential essay gets right, and wrong.
Why Did the IDF, Accused of a War Crime, Conceal Evidence?
Some civilian deaths from 2009 weren’t Israel’s fault.
Has American Culture Lost Touch with the Hebraic Political Tradition?
Cecil B. DeMille’s absent heirs.