Posts Tagged: Israel 1948
Yom Haatzmaut: The Eternal Marriage Between Israel and the Jews Must Be Nurtured
This year’s Yom Haatzmaut celebration commemorates the 71st anniversary of a marriage that has lasted more than 3,500 years. This may sound like a paradox -- but...
Israel Cannot Ignore Its Special Mission Solely for the Sake of ‘Security’
Israel is at a fateful crossroads. The unending necessity to safeguard the state’s secure existence ensures that its leaders will face complex and painful decisions....
Revisiting Walter Eytan’s — and Israel’s — ‘First Ten Years’
The diplomatic history of Israel as related by Dr. Walter Eytan, the first director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry (from 1948 to 1959), considered the...
May 14, 2018: A Historic Day for Israel
May 14 loomed large in 1948. It was the date, according to the secular calendar, when the modern state of Israel was born. It was a...
Celebrating Israel at 70
Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary this month. Let me put my cards on the table -- I’m not dispassionate when it comes to Israel. For centuries, Jews...
Alan Dershowitz on Israel at 70: ‘A Light Unto the World’
JNS.org - Ahead of Israel’s 70th birthday in May, longtime Harvard University Law professor, attorney and author Alan Dershowitz announced that he is donating an ambucycle...
The ‘Nakba’ and Palestinian War Crimes
Two important Hebrew-language books were published recently: Deir Yassin: The End of the Myth by Eliezer Tauber, and Nakba and Survival: The Story of the Palestinians Who Remained...
Standing United With Israel at 68 — Flaws and All
JNS.org - Israel’s Yom Ha’atzmaut — Independence Day — is particularly meaningful to my family. My uncle brought his family to the country from Poland in...
The Big Lie: Antisemitism and the ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’
In January, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made the outrageous assertion that the slashing of innocent Israeli civilians by knife-wielding Palestinians is justifiable as a response...
Remembering Some History About Jews and Palestinians
The failure of American-mediated peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the likely creation of a Hamas-Fatah government in the Palestinian West Bank...
The Arab Definition of ‘Peace’ in 1948: Israel’s Destruction
This comes from a July 8, 1948, memo from the Arab League to UN mediator Count Bernadotte rejecting the extension of the truce during Israel's...
The Truth Behind Anti-Semitism
Throughout the Middle East there are many who feel that Israel doesn't have the right to exist as a nation and that the Jews there...
Negotiating Under the Shadow of Palestinian Refugees
One of the main issues that Israelis and Palestinians are struggling with in the ongoing negotiations is the Palestinian refugee problem. Although in previous negotiations...
Happy Birthday, Israel
If countries were people and Israel was an American, it would begin to collect Social Security in nine months. It would be eligible for...
