Israel

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• 11/26/19
  

  The History Behind the Rocket Used in the Latest Attack Against Israel

  by Gideon Remez

  Israel wielded a similar "mega-rocket" against Egypt 50 years ago. How Soviet advisers dealt with it.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  November 19, 2019
  

  WSJ Reviews Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century

  by Matti Friedman

  A writer tells the story of a region through the lens of one well-documented clan. 

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• SOURCE: Australian Outlook
  10/4/19
  

  Israel’s Fractured Democracy And Its Repercussions

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  A look at Israeli history and its latest headlines. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  September 25, 2019
  

  Israel’s First Prime Minister Was Complicated. So Is This Book About His Life.

  by Francine Klagsbrun

  Tom Segev studies and compares the life and associated policies of Israel’s very first Prime Minister in A STATE AT ANY COST: The Life of David Ben-Gurion.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  September 16, 2019
  

  The Oslo Accords’ Last Remnants Are Under Fire. Don’t Let Them Die.

  by Michael J. Koplow

  Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to apply sovereignty to Israel’s settlements throughout the West Bank after President Trump unveils his Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative. But Mr. Netanyahu’s fortunes and Mr. Trump’s plan may not matter with the longstanding rules of the Oslo Accords.

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• 8/26/19
  

  50 Years ago, the KGB weaponized the fire at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque to sow discord between Israel and the United States

  by Oren Nahari

  This discovery comes from a document obtained by historians Isabella Ginor  and Gideon Remez. A rent-a-crowd protest in India was aimed to affect the Egyptian-Israeli War of Attrition.

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• 8/25/19
  

  Israel’s 2007 Decision to Attack a Syrian Nuclear Facility is History and Warning

  by Edwin Black

  When reading Katz’s book, we are reminded that as complex and difficult as the Syrian strike was, any similar action on Iran’s nuclear capability would be infinitely more daunting and riskier. 

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• SOURCE: The Third Narrative
  8/22/19
  

  What Anti-Zionist Leftists Get Wrong

  by Bernard Bohbot

  Fully opposing the legitimacy of Zionism allows for the dubious proposition that Jews were wrong to seek a safe haven from persecution. 

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• SOURCE: Tikkun
  8/6/2019
  

  Today’s Christian-Jewish Zionist Alliance Imperils American Jewry

  by Jim Sleeper

  Jews’ long-standing security in the United States has relied on a hard-won consensus now being undermined by an unholy alliance.

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• 6/2/19
  

  The Bund was far from Perfect. It still matters to Jewish History

  by Joshua Meyers

  The Bund embodied the aspirations and identity of millions of Jews for five decades and provided serious answers to the questions Jews faced then and now.

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• SOURCE: The Third Narrative
  5/8/2019
  

  My Zionism is Personal and Complicated

  by Ralph Seliger

  Today’s an increasingly exasperating time for progressives who care about Israel’s future.

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• 6/2/19
  

  The Occupation of The Atlantic Mind

  by Walter L. Hixson

  The Atlantic magainze is distinguished by the intensity of its Zionist distortions of the past and present of the Palestine conflict.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/17/19
  

  Rashida Tlaib’s critics have Palestinian history all wrong

  by Maha Nassar

  The decades-long process that led to the creation of Israel involved plenty of Palestinian suffering.

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• 5/19/19
  

  History Does Not Bode Well for President Trump’s Peace Plan

  by Yoav J. Tenembaum

  History has taught us that every attempt by the United States to settle the Arab Israeli conflict by advancing its own peace plan has failed.    

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/14/19
  

  Rashida Tlaib Has Her History Wrong

  by Benny Morris

  The representative’s account of the Arab-Israeli conflict relies on origin myths about the birth of Israel.

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• SOURCE: American Diplomacy
  Accessed 5/9/19
  

  Preventing an Israeli-Iran War

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  The EU is in a unique position to prevent the outbreak of a war between Israel and Iran that could engulf the Middle East in a war that no one can win.

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• 5/5/19
  

  Denying Omar Barghouti Admittance to the U.S. Is a Free Speech Issue

  by Zachary Lockman

  A response to A.J. Caschetta from the chair of the North America wing of the Middle East Studies Association’s Committee on Academic Freedom.

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• 5/5/19
  

  Why the Middle East Studies Association Should Not Defend Omar Barghouti

  by A.J. Caschetta

  MESA portrays Barghouti as a dissident who has been unfairly treated but Barghouti is much more than an outspoken activist whose opinions conflict with U.S. policy.

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• 4/21/19
  

  The Middle East, Land Disputes, and Religious History

  by Zaman Stanizai

  Can a land be claimed on the basis of the scriptural myths of one religion with implied exclusion of all other religious communities?

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• 4/11/19
  

  The Israeli Elections and What We Can Learn from History

  by Yoav J. Tenembaum

  To understand the Israeli electoral process one has to delve more deeply into Israeli society and the way it has evolved.