Posts Tagged: Ruthie Blum
Erdogan’s Loss Is Israel’s Gain
JNS.org - When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared, during the lead-up to the country’s March 31 municipal elections, that “whoever wins Istanbul, wins Turkey,”...
Pompeo’s Justified Low Expectations for the Mideast Peace Plan
JNS.org - In a private meeting on May 28 with the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged...
The Mistake of Germany’s Bare-Headed Brouhaha
JNS.org - The outcry over remarks made on Saturday by the German government’s first-ever antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein, is peculiar. If Klein were not truthful...
Iran’s Proxy Wars Are the Real Problem
JNS.org - Sunday night’s landing of a Katyusha rocket less than half a mile from the US embassy in Baghdad was not merely the latest...
A Particularly Happy Anniversary
JNS.org - One year ago today, on May 14, 2018, the United States officially transferred its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Although...
Jihadi Missiles, Israeli Mourning
JNS.org - Reeling after three days of nonstop rocket barrages from Gaza, and fully aware that the cease-fire with Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists is...
Jewish Violence: What the Gray Lady Knows It Need Not Fear
JNS.org - In response to the publication of an antisemitic cartoon in last Thursday’s international New York Times, protesters gathered outside the Manhattan office of the...
Netanyahu and Jewish Worry About What the Neighbors Might Think
JNS.org - A few days ahead of the Knesset elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to extend Israeli sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria....
Turkey, Ukraine, and Israel: An Electoral Comparison Not to Take for Granted
JNS.org - Ahead of next week’s Knesset elections, Israelis disgusted with the ugliness of the current campaign would do well to consider the results of...
Israel’s Blessings and Curses
JNS.org - When Israelis awoke on Monday morning to the news that a house in Moshav Mishmeret, in the centrally located Sharon region, had been...
Don’t Forget Iran, Netanyahu Hasn’t
JNS.org - Israel’s Channel 12 led its prime-time news broadcast on Thursday night with a leaked report that Iran had hacked the cellphone of Blue...
False Hopes, Unwarranted Hysteria
JNS.org - When Donald Trump’s senior adviser, Jared Kushner, told Sky News Arabia on Monday that Washington’s yet-to-be-revealed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan includes a “redrawing of...
Crime and Punishment, Israeli-Style
JNS.org - The debate over capital punishment for terrorists arose again in Israel after the body of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher was discovered in a forest...
Primary Concerns and the Israeli Elections
JNS.org - It’s not a hot news flash that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the nemesis of the local left-wing media. Nor is it...
