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Category Archives: Politics
“The end of the grand delusion of pan-Arab identity finally permits different Arab societies to explore their different identities rooted in reality and not mythic conceptions”
EMET ONLINE The Abraham Accords and the End of Arab Romanticism by Hussein Aboubakr Mansour September 15, 2021 The signing of the Abraham Accords a year ago signified the end of an era of modern Middle Eastern history and the … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
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“A 700-page Polish novel is all the rage in Israel, but can it heal the rift between Poles and Jews?”
TABLET MAG A Polish Christian Writes the Great Jewish Novel by Shalom Goldman September 23, 2021 Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature, published The Books of Jacob in 2014. The novel follows the messianic religious … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Catholics, Catholocism, Poland
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How a group of Jewish physicists helped the United States beat Nazi Germany in the race for nuclear weapons
MOSAIC The Jewish Nucleus of the Second World War’s Atomic Drama by Alex Gordon September 17, 2021 …Starting in 1943, the anti-fascist Bohr took part in the Manhattan nuclear project that led to the deaths of 120,000 people in Hiroshima … Continue reading
The Biden administration is still working to finalize the Israel-Sudan agreement
AXIOS Blinken to host event marking Abraham Accords anniversary by Barak Ravid September 14, 2021 Secretary of State Tony Blinken will hold a virtual meeting on Friday with his counterparts from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco to … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Accords, Abraham Accords Peace Institute, Jared Kushner
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“Despite Israel’s location in the Middle East, when CENTCOM was created in 1983, responsibility for the Jewish state was assigned to U.S. European Command”
NAVY TIMES Why Israel’s transfer to US Central Command could help deter Iran by Bradley Bowman and Behnam Ben Taleblu September 7, 2021 U.S. Central Command announced Sept. 1 that it has assumed responsibility for U.S. forces in Israel. This … Continue reading
“It will start without warning. And the consequences are likely to be enormous”
TABLET MAG The Next Lebanon War by Matti Friedman September 9, 2021 …What’s different this summer is that some of the important changes on the Lebanese side have become easier to see. Lebanon has long been a husk of a … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Hezbollah, Lebanon, Matti Friedman
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“The U.S. has abandoned Kabul, but America’s former client in Islamabad still holds leverage over the superpower it helped defeat”
BLOOMBERG How Pakistan Won the War in Afghanistan by Eli Lake September 9, 2021 For much of the war on terror that began after 9/11, Pakistan played a double game. It occasionally helped track and detain al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders. … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Haqqani, Pakistan, Taliban
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Guarantees on paper, as diplomatically wordsmithed as they may be, have proved meaningless
JNS As Afghanistan collapses, Israel learns the value of international ‘security guarantees’ by Amir Avivi and Or Yissachar September 12, 2021 …Further still, guarantees on paper, as diplomatically wordsmithed as they may be, were given to both the Afghani and … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Hezbollah, Iran, Lebanon
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Review of ‘People Love Dead Jews’ by Dara Horn
COMMENTARY Horn of Plenty by Elliott Abrams September 2021 …. Her take on the rebuilding of abandoned synagogues and houses and rubbished cemeteries in places where Jews no longer live gives the sense of her argument: “There is a tourist … Continue reading
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“Latest release in AJC’s “About the Jews” video series, “Is Israel Only for Jews?”challenges the common Arab notion that Israelis are all Jewish or that Arabs in the Jewish state are oppressed”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Arabic-language video challenges anti-Israel views by ILH Staff September 15, 2021 A new Arabic-language video about diversity and coexistence in Israel, produced as part of the American Jewish Committee’s “An al-Yahud” (About the Jews) series, … Continue reading
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