By Joshua Mitnick, N.Y. Jewish Week, Tel Aviv
• Published December 7, 2011
Israelis are watching elections in Egypt with the same ambivalence they have viewed the Arab Spring: historic images of Egyptians casting ballots for the first time were accompanied by troubling commentary by officials and analysts that the election is...
By Seth J. Frantzman, JointMedia News Service
• Published November 30, 2011
"Whoever thought that there had been no point in supporting [Israeli] agreements with tyrants now argues that the Arab Spring let loose the hatred which the Arabs feel toward Israel. But Israel is not able to stop history. In the dilemma between the support...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published November 2, 2011
According to Jonathan Adelman, professor in the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, it is "hard to say" right now if the Arab Spring sweeping the Middle East and North Africa is positive or negative for the security interests...
By Linda Gradstein, JTA JERUSALEM
• Published September 14, 2011
Retired Israeli Air Force pilot Uri Dromi remembers the day 34 years ago when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat landed in Israel to tell the Israeli people that he was ready to make peace.Dromi, who had flown missions in the 1967 Six-Day War against Egypt,...
Egyptians or Americans upset about United States offers of aid to groups promoting democratic principles ought only look a few hundred miles north to Syria. The latter country is suffering the worst of the violent and depressing stresses that occur so...
When Korach and his two hundred fifty followers rebel against Moses in this week's Torah portion Korach says to Moses. "All the community are holy, all of them, and the Lord is in their midst. Why then do you raise yourselves above the Lord's congregation?"...
The Torah portion recently read insynagogues throughout the world (Kedoshim) included these lines:"When a convert dwells among you in your land, do not taunt him.The convert who dwells with you shall be like a native among you,and you shall love him like...
It has often been said that peace won't become a reality in the Middle East until, or unless, the Arab countries and the Palestinians-particulary, the Palestinian terrorist organizations-recognize Israel's "right to exist." However, I submit that the...
