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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Jonathan S. Tobin

Trump’s critics shouldn’t encourage Palestinians to make another mistake

BY JONATHAN S. TOBIN, JNSPublished February 6, 2020

Contrary to the bad advice they’re getting from the Democrats and J Street,Palestinians need to accept that the U.S. plan is their best chance for statehood.As far as Americans who despise President Donald Trump go, as well as for many Jews and Israelis...

MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS

MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS

Wisam HashlamounPublished August 19, 2019

Israeli border police officers arrest a Palestinian youth during clashes with Palestinian protesters in the West Bank city of Hebron, Aug. 11, 2019. Reps Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were scheduled to visit Hebron and other parts of the West Bank. (Wisam...

Letters to the editor: July 24, 2019

Letters to the editor: July 24, 2019

Published July 26, 2019

Two states would be ‘nightmare’Your analysis in a recent editorial (“Where are the Palestinians?” July 10 edition) that arresting a businessman who attended the Jared Kushner-led summit in Bahrain “is further proof that the Palestinian Authority...

Where are the Palestinians?

Where are the Palestinians?

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALPublished July 11, 2019

A recent economic summit conference in Bahrain was designed to further efforts toward peaceful dialogue among Jews, Muslims and Christians. But as Rabbi Marc Schneier, principal organizer of the meeting, told a St. Louis audience recently, the absence...

MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS

MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS

Photo: FLASH90Published August 19, 2018

Palestinian protesters throwing stones and burning tires during clashes with Israeli security forces over the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, close to the Israeli manned checkpoint of Hezma in the West Bank, September 30, 2015.

OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE

OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE

Abed Rahim KhatibPublished October 30, 2017

Palestinian men look at what used to be a tunnel leading from the Gaza Strip into Israel, in the area of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on Aug. 5, 2014, after a 72-hour truce agreed by Israel and Hamas went into effect. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

An Israeli strike that killed Hamass top commander, Ahmed Al-Jaabari

An Israeli strike that killed Hamas’s top commander, Ahmed Al-Jaabari

Abed Rahim KhatibPublished November 16, 2012

Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in the Nusseirat in the central Gaza Strip on November 14, 2012. An Israeli strike that killed Hamas's top commander, Ahmed Al-Jaabari, in Gaza is only "the beginning" of an operation to target militant groups...

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