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ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
Israel Means Business on Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President, had quite the week when he visited New York to address, as he has done in past years, the United...
Candidates Romney and Obama: Find your Inner Shofar
Dear candidates Obama and Romney, If there's one aspect of Rosh Hashanah that those outside the Jewish community are familiar with, it's the blowing of the...
Undermining the Jews of the Arab World
If you're looking for an online aggregator of Israel-bashing articles, you could do a great deal worse than visit Open Zion, the website edited by...
Saints or Sinners? Meet Rachel Corrie’s Allies
I am writing this column with great reluctance. In a rational world, the accidental death of Rachel Corrie, the pro-Hamas activist who was ...
Sinai Offensive is No Reason to Trust Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
If you are seeking to understand what motivates the jihadists who have swarmed into the Sinai Peninsula in recent months, their own words...
Obama and Israel: Degrees of Separation
American foreign policy, and specifically its Middle Eastern dimension, came back into play last week in a presidential election campaign that has largely...
Europe Raises the White Flag on Defense Spending
In his exhaustive biography of Winston Churchill—which, incidentally, makes for splendid summer reading—the historian Roy Jenkins provides a gripping account of the future...
The Real Challenge in the Middle East: Ideology
Roger Garaudy, the French self-styled philosopher who died on June 13 aged 98, was an exceptional individual. And I don't mean that as a compliment. Garaudy...
Shalit Deal Continues to Divide Israelis
Having experienced hijackings, cross-border incursions, gun attacks and suicide bombings across several decades, Israelis also know too well that the damage wreaked by...
Syria: More leading from behind
The horrors currently unfolding in Syria offer further proof of what might reasonably be described as Kofi Annan's law of international relations: Wherever...
Nadarkhani and the Iranian Masters of Deception
It's been quite the month for the Iranian regime. Following a mid-April round of talks over its nuclear program with the European Union's Foreign Policy...
South Sudan is a Jewish Cause
The great Jewish historian, Salo W. Baron, famously criticized the "lachrymose" conception of Jewish history, by which he meant the reduction of the...
‘Boycott Israel,’ the Movie—Starring Emma Thompson
If Hollywood ever makes a movie about the movement to boycott Israel, I can think of no one better suited to the starring role...
Boycott BDS, Not Israel
Last November, the New York Times published an op-ed that took the demonization of Israel to another, more insidious level. The attack, authored by...
