Posts Tagged: israel
David Ben-Gurion and the Meaning of ‘Mamlachtiut’
For David Ben-Gurion, the concept of mamlachtiut captured the perennial tension between the establishment of the State of Israel as an orderly and delimited institutional...
It’s Time for Netanyahu’s Coalition Partners to Start Governing
JNS.org - On April 9, the Israeli electorate made a clear choice: to empower Benjamin Netanyahu to remain Israeli prime minister. Netanyahu received more Knesset...
No BBC Reporting on Terror Attacks by PA Employees
On May 20 the Israel Security Agency announced that it had solved a series of shooting attacks that were carried out in the Ramallah district. As...
Israeli-American Council Announces New Chairman
JNS.org - The Israeli-American Council (IAC) announced on Thursday business leader and longstanding philanthropist Naty Saidoff as its new chairman. Saidoff is a co-founder of the...
Historians and Jews
When the Nazis achieved power, Hanns Johst wrote the play Schlageter, which was performed on Hitler’s 44th birthday. Act I, Scene 1 was the source...
Israel’s Only Option: The Diplomacy of Violence in Gaza
Ever since the unilateral disengagement from Gaza in the summer of 2005, Israel has engaged in “bargaining by the threat of violence” with Hamas. Within...
Palestinians Need to Rethink the ‘Nakba,’ Not Refight It
JNS.org - The debates about Holocaust references made by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are starting to die down. Like almost everything that happens these days,...
Israel in the Era of the New Isolationism
Maybe biblical Joseph’s cyclical dream of seven fat years followed by seven lean ones can be applied to America’s world politics. A “fat” cycle of...
The Two-State Unicorn
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said prior to the Israeli elections that he would annex the West Bank settlements, many politicians, pundits, Jews, and foreign...
The Real Israel: Loving, Giving and Charitable
In a massive world of nearly 200 countries, there is a small country made up of only 8.5 million people -- a mere 0.1% of...
Yom Haatzmaut and the Core of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
JNS.org - Much of the discussion about Israel and the Palestinians revolves around one question: Why does the conflict continue? Most of those who offer...
The Cleverest Kind of Lie: Accusing Israel of Future Crimes
One tool of verbal demonization that is extremely difficult for Israel to combat is accusations of crimes it supposedly will commit in the future. These...
Retaking a Small Part of Gaza: How Israel Can Return Security to Its South
“The job of a soldier is to be killed before a citizen is killed.” This is a rough translation of the sentence spoken by an...
Minister Denies Israel Seeking to Deny Entry to Activists During Eurovision Song Contest
Israel’s Minister of Public Security and Strategic Affairs Gilad Erdan denied a report in The Guardian newspaper that Israel was seeking to block pro-Palestinian activists...
