Edy Cohen
ARTICLES BY: Edy Cohen
Arab Countries Say ‘We Miss the Jews’
A million Jews lived in Arab countries in the 20th century. Today, just a few thousand are left, mostly in Morocco and Tunisia. The purging of...
Israel Will Sorely Miss Sultan Qaboos of Oman
Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Oman sadly passed away on January 10, 2020. He was 79, childless, and considered to be the longest-ruling...
Soleimani Killing Hailed by Arabs — but Not by Palestinians
The targeted killing of Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani, together with Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis, deputy head of the Iraq-based Iranian-controlled Kataib Hezbollah militia, was a...
You Can’t Make Peace With Antisemites
The time has come for Israel to stop willfully ignoring the phenomenon of Holocaust denial in the Arab world, and start fighting it. Dialogue and...
Lebanon: On the Verge of Collapse
Faced with the spectacle of hundreds of thousands of citizens protesting in the streets of Lebanon, Prime Minister Saad Hariri submitted a letter of resignation...
The Crisis of Violence in Israeli-Arab Society
The Joint Arab List, which became the Knesset’s third-largest faction in the recent elections, is wasting no time. Ayman Odeh, who leads the List, called...
The Plight of the LGBT Community in the Palestinian Authority and Muslim Countries
The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s violent treatment of the gay community under its rule offers a gloomy reminder of this community’s difficult situation in most Muslim...
Jordan’s Double Game With Israel
In an unusual and particularly outrageous declaration, Jordanian MP Tarek Khoury recently called on Jordanians to blow up pipelines that are supposed to bring natural...
The 20th Century Pogroms Against the Jews of the Middle East: Will Christians Suffer the Same Fate?
A look at developments in the Middle East over the past decades gives the clear impression that the region is becoming “cleansed” of minorities, especially...
The Persecution of Christians in the Palestinian Authority
Three grave events occurred recently involving Christians in the territories ruled by the Palestinian Authority (PA). But they left no mark on either the world...
The False Promise of Iraqi-Israeli Peace
No one should be misled by the revelation that several Iraqi delegations visited Israel in 2018, and let that turn into optimism about Iraqi-Israeli relations....
Jordanian Law Permits the Murder of Israelis
Jordanian soldier Ahmad Mussa Dakasma, the murderer of seven Israeli schoolgirls in Naharayim on March 13, 1997, was released from prison in March 2017 after...
In Syria, Palestinian Blood Isn’t Equal
Recently, the human rights organization Action Group for Palestinians in Syria (AGPS) published a report documenting 3,840 cases of Palestinians killed since the beginning of...
Kuwait: A Serial Violator of (Palestinian) Human Rights
There is considerable hypocrisy in the fact that Kuwait -- which in 1991 expelled approximately 400,000 Palestinians who worked and lived in its territory for...
