In Israel, there is perhaps no politician more associated today with the two-state solution than Tzipi Livni. As the country’s former foreign minister, lead negotiator with the Palestinians and two-time leader of the opposition, Livni has warned Israelis...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published May 23, 2018
When a Hamas spokesman acknowledged that 50 out of the 62 Palestinians reported killed during the May 14 assault on Israel’s border with Gaza, that fact alone should have fundamentally altered the debate over what happened. Though the international...
Anyone who favors the sensible but elusive two-state solution in the Middle East couldn’t help but be disappointed by recent comments by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. But they should not be surprised, either. In a speech to the Palestinian National...
SYDNEY, Australia — He's been brandished “the most dangerous man on earth,” accused of being a “public advocate of genocide” and likened to Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi “Angel of Death." Yet he’s also been hailed as “one of the world’s...
By Rachel Marder, JointMedia News Service
• Published April 25, 2012
Rabbi Raphael Shore, the producer of “Israel Inside: How A Small Nation Makes a Big Difference,” denies that his film ignores Israel’s conflicts or encourages viewers to do so. The media does a good enough job of detailing the Israeli-Palestinian...
JERUSALEM—"It's the economy stupid" was how American political strategist James Carville once summed up the defining issue in U.S. presidential elections. But in Israel, besieged by enemy nations and locked into an ongoing conflict with the Palestinians,...
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration heralded progress in Israeli-Palestinian talks held under Jordanian auspices. "We believe that those talks offer the parties a real opportunity to make meaningful progress towards peace," White House spokesman Jay...
By Rabbi Sid Schwarz, JTA
• Published January 13, 2012
WASHINGTON -- About a year and half ago, I participated in a fact-finding mission to Israel sponsored by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arabs (IATF). Established in 2006 as a consortium of some of the major organizations in American Jewish life...
TEL AVIV - On Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv's version of Park Avenue, a burgeoning tent city has sprung up amid crowded cafes and its canopy of ficus trees. The squatters are protesting soaring housing prices in the country, and they have galvanized...
BY REPPS HUDSON, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published June 8, 2011
If anyone still has questions about how Israel has lost the public relations campaign against the Palestinians, Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin explain in non-judgmental prose what has happened since 2000 to isolate the Jewish state. In the introduction...
TEL AVIV, Israel — Faina Dorfman, who immigrated to Israel from Uzbekistan hoping that her only child would have a better life here, walks along a stretch of beach just south of a tattered seaside disco called the Dolphinarium. Ten years ago, a young...
The St. Louis Jewish Book Festival welcomes the KMOX Charlie Brennan Show/Fontbonne University Book Club for a live broadcast and interview with international journalists from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday June 13 at the JCC - Staenberg Family Complex Arts and...
