In Combating the Ideology of Terror, Washington’s Allies Must Cease Repressing Civil Society
The Trump administration should listen to its counterterrorism strategy.
October 8, 2018
Will Turkey Foil Plans to Turn Israel and Its Neighbors into Major Suppliers of Natural Gas to Europe?
Pipeline dreams.
In 2009, large fields of natural gas were discovered below Israel’s coastal waters; in the subsequent years, researchers concluded that these were part of a massive deposit of gas and petroleum in the eastern Mediterranean, distributed among the territorial waters of Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus, and Greece. Egypt and Israel have already begun exploiting these reserves, and Israel in particular is eager to join with Cyprus, Greece, and Italy in a major project—known as the East Med pipeline—that could export these fossil fuels to Europe, thereby relieving the EU of its reliance on Russia. But playing the role of spoiler is Turkey, motivated by its historic conflicts with Greece and Cyprus, its more recent hostility toward Israel, and its growing economic and diplomatic ties with Moscow—which include cooperation in the export of fuel. John Psaropoulos explains:
October 8, 2018
Uri Avnery Was No Hero
The man who made Arafat into a “peace partner.”
Will Turkey Foil Plans to Turn Israel and Its Neighbors into Major Suppliers of Natural Gas to Europe?
Pipeline dreams.
Saul Bellow’s Literary Response to American Jewish Passivity during the Holocaust
Broadway Billy and the amnesia of a people once known for their memory.
Overdoing Stanley Kubrick’s Jewishness
A great filmmaker, but not a New York intellectual.