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ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
Roger Waters and BDS Movement are an Embarrassment
JNS.org - Back in 1976, when the burgeoning punk movement began transforming the rock'n'roll landscapes of London and New York, a young man named...
Jews Can’t Turn a Blind Eye to Syrian Refugees
JNS.org - Not for the first time, events elsewhere in the Middle East—the renewed bloodshed in Egypt and Israel's decision to release 104 Palestinian terrorists...
Should Jews Support a Boycott of Putin’s Russia?
JNS.org - One of the oft-repeated criticisms of the movement to boycott Israel is that it portrays the Middle East's only healthy democracy as the...
Abandon the Syrian Civil War? Isolation is Never Splendid
JNS.org - Among the handful of post-war leaders who could always be relied upon to support the United States unstintingly, the name of Tony...
With Putin’s Iran Visit on the Horizon, Nuclear Game Proceeds Apace
JNS.org - The victory of Hassan Rouhani in June's Iranian presidential election has once again thrust the word "moderate" into the center of the...
Kerry Must End the ‘Israel-is-to-Blame’ Game
JNS.org - Which aspect of Secretary of State John Kerry's repetition of the Arab position last week, that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies at the root...
Is the Islamist Era Over?
JNS.0rg - With the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt, one is almost forced to question whether the global Islamist...
U.S. and Israel Must Push for Stability in Jordan
JNS.org - Following the ugly battle between the Egyptian military and Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi, resulting in Morsi's ouster on July 3, as well as...
Turkey, Amid Islamization and Anti-Semitism, Fit for EU Membership?
JNS.org - It's a familiar pattern. The citizens of a Middle Eastern state explode with frustration against their corrupt, repressive government. They gather for noisy, impassioned demonstrations...
Hezbollah: From Terrorism to War Crimes
JNS.org - An unexpected obstacle to efforts within the European Union (EU) to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization emerged last week when the new...
More Peace, Less Process: The Key to Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has already visited the Middle East four times since President Barack Obama named him to the post back in...
The Church of Scotland’s War on Judaism
In a recent, exhaustive study of anti-Semitism, the German scholar Clemens Heni explains the significance for Christian theology of the story of Ahasver, a Jewish...
What is the Motivation Behind Erdogan Visiting Gaza and Snubbing Kerry?
Of all the half-truths and misconceptions that mar the American debate over the level of influence exercised by Israel on U.S. Middle East policy, the...
Korea, Iran, and the Dual-Loyalty Myth
Here's a term that rarely crops up in discussions of American policy towards northeast Asia: the Korea Lobby. And as for the pejorative term "Korea...
