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Status Quoism Is a Temperament, Not an Ideology
By Rafi DeMoggeCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Israeli Territorial Concessions Worsen Anti-Semitism in the West
By Evelyn GordonCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
To Save Itself from International Isolation, Israel Must Hold On to the West Bank
By Rafi DeMoggeThe diplomatic case against territorial concessions.
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Jews Living in the West Bank Didn’t Undermine Israel’s Security or Empower Hamas
By Cole S. Aronson, Avi BellCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Yes, Bad Policies Paved the Way to October 7. But What If They Were the Only Policies Available?
By Evelyn GordonCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Observation ·
Tit for Tat Is a Bad Way of Arguing about Gaza
By PhilologosTwo or three thoughts on the “dehumanizing” discourse.
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Watch Shany Mor, Haviv Rettig Gur, and Hussein Aboubakr Discuss “Ecstasy and Amnesia in the Gaza Strip”
By The EditorsCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
Ecstasy and Amnesia in the Gaza Strip
By Shany MorThree catastrophes, all marked by euphoria at the start and denial at the end, have shaped the Palestinian predicament. Has the fourth arrived, and is the same dynamic playing out?
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The Extremist’s Gambit Helps Explain Why Hamas Attacked Now
By Tanner GreerCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Death of Evidence-Based Two-Statism
By Rafi DeMoggeCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
The Perennial Power of the Nakba
By Hussein Aboubakr MansourHow generations of Arab thinkers and leaders tried to turn the humiliation of their losses to Israel into a springboard to launch their nations into an enchanted new age.
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Why So Many Israelis Dropped Their Opposition to Settlements
By Evelyn GordonCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
The Changing Faces of Israel’s Settlement Movement
By Daniel KaneWhat was 50 years ago a small band of religious farmer-soldiers has grown into a varied network of nearly half a million. Who are Israel's settlers and what do they really believe?
Observation ·
What Reactions to the Death of Shireen Abu Akleh Reveal
By Michael OrenThe belief that Israel has a policy of assassinating reporters has, explicitly or tacitly, now been accepted by much of the liberal world.
Observation ·
The Forgotten History of the Term “Palestine”
By Douglas J. FeithThe land to the east of the Mediterranean has gone by many names, all of them designed to make a political point.
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How to Boost Gaza’s Economy without Boosting Hamas
By Yechiel LeiterCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Where We See Gaza in Ten Years
By Amos Yadlin, Ari HeisteinCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Status Quo in Gaza Is the Least-Bad Option
By Yaakov AmidrorCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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What Egypt Wants In Gaza
By Haisam HassaneinCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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What Can Be Done Politically to Weaken Hamas
By Elliott AbramsCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
How Gaza Became Israel’s Unsolvable Problem
By Michael OrenThe fourth conflict in the last twelve years between Israel and Gaza looks remarkably like the first. What happened?
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Stuck on the Wrong Road to Peace
By Shany MorCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Actually, Everybody Recognizes Oslo Failed
By Michael KoplowCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
The Return of the Peace Processors
By Shany MorFor decades, America's foreign-policy establishment has, in the name of peace, incentivized conflict in the Middle East. Now that it's back in power, can it learn from its mistakes?
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Peter Beinart’s Wedge
By Neil RogachevskyThe don of liberal Zionism has come out against a two-state solution. His argument is delusional and messianic. But that's not the real problem with it.
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What Did (and Didn’t) Happen in Room 16 of the American Colony Hotel
By Martin KramerIt's said that the Oslo peace process was born in that room in Jerusalem in 1992. The truth is much different.
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An American Perspective on Israel’s Election
By Douglas J. FeithCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay ·
Israel’s Demographic Miracle
By Ofir HaivryBirthrates are falling across the world, especially in developed nations—except in one. How did mainstream, middle-class Israelis start having children again, and what does it mean?
Observation ·
The Fantasy of an International Jerusalem
By Martin KramerOne-hundred years ago, over a lunch, the internationalization of Jerusalem became irrelevant—and it remains so.
Observation ·
The Only Language He Understands
By Neil RogachevskyWithout knowing the Middle East, the author of a highly regarded new book presumes to prescribe what would be best for it—and especially for Israel.
