With Talk of Annexation, Benny Gantz Sends a Message to the U.S.
But will liberal Jews, and Democratic presidential candidates, listen?
January 24, 2020
With Talk of Annexation, Benny Gantz Sends a Message to the U.S.
But will liberal Jews, and Democratic presidential candidates, listen?
On Tuesday, the former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, who is campaigning for a third time to oust Benjamin Netanyahu from the Israeli premiership, announced that if elected he will seek to annex the Jordan Valley. He added the important caveat that he wants to do so “in coordination with the international community”—a promise that, as many have pointed out, is nearly impossible to fulfill. While it is easy to speculate about the political calculations behind this pledge, Jonathan Tobin suggests that it is also intended as a message to American liberals:
January 24, 2020
What Rulers and Politicians Won’t Learn from the Holocaust Commemoration Ceremony in Jerusalem
Arab collaboration with the Nazis won’t be on the agenda.
Secular Judaism Turns on the Jews
Ethical Culture’s new problems, and its old ones.
During the Revolution of 1989, East European Jews Overthrew Their Leaders
A Hanukkah uprising in Czechoslovakia.
New Technology Sheds Light on Literacy in Ancient Israel
The two scribes of the Samaria ostraca.