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ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013: How to Say ‘Never Again’ and Mean It
As we mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) on April 8 for the 60th consecutive year—this somber day was first placed onto the Jewish...
Will Pope Francis I Become the Savior of the Persecuted Church?
Christianity is the world's largest religion. And with more than 1 billion members, the Roman Catholic Church is its largest denomination. Anyone who watched the...
How the ‘Obama and Israel’ Debate Misses the Point
WASHINGTON, DC - A persistent theme at this month's policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the weightiest and most influential of all the...
The Changing Middle East as Seen From AIPAC 2013
From the second one arrives at the Washington Convention Center, the AIPAC spectacle is all-encompassing. From the anti-Israel demonstrators clustering around the entrance...
The Dangerous Obsession with Beitar Jerusalem
Over the last few weeks, I've seen a slew of articles about Beitar Jerusalem, one of Israel's leading soccer teams. In brief, the story is as...
What (Not) to Expect From Obama’s Visit to Israel
Sometimes you have to give politicians a little credit. If you heard through the grapevine that two of your friends had been discussing you,...
Morsi’s Anti-Semitism Reveals More About Us Than Him
It's a story that began with an eagle-eyed Jewish blogger who writes under the pseudonym "Challah Hu Akbar" and progressed all the way to...
Chavez and the Jews: A Bad Telenovela
Like one of those telenovelas that are so popular on Latin American television stations, the slow yet inexorable deterioration of Venezuela's President, Hugo...
Iran: A Plea for Respect
It often seems like there are two Irans. There's the Iran deemed by western political leaders and diplomats to be a rational agent with whom it's...
The Disunited Arab Republics
The Russian revolutionary leader, Vladimir Lenin, was fond of the phrase "one step forward, two steps back." In the current Middle East, we have taken...
Time to Challenge the ‘Palestine-Firsters’
Between June and October of this year, Palestinian terrorists in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip launched almost 260 attacks, the vast majority involving rockets and missiles,...
Four More Years of Middle East Noise
Back in September, when it seemed as if there was everything to play for in the forthcoming U.S. presidential election, President Barack Obama likened Israeli...
Assault From Gaza Highlights Myriad Threats to Israel
I cannot be the only person wondering whether we would have watched a rather different presidential debate on foreign policy had the last Obama-Romney encounter...
EU Wins ‘Nobel Appeasement Prize’
The Nobel Peace Prize isn't so much a peace prize as it is an appeasement prize. I know, I know: many people realized this bald truth...
