Israel

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• 3/22/2020
  

  When the Western Wall Was A Battleground For Jewish Rights

  by Moshe Phillips

  The book explains how Segal and the others who followed in his footsteps transformed the Western Wall from a site of wailing to one of national pride.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  Golda Meir and Women's Wartime Leadership

  by Jonathan W. Jordan and Emily Anne Jordan

  Are women seeking the presidency held back by Americans' mistrust of female military leadership? The example of Golda Meir suggests they shouldn't be.

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• 2/16/20
  

  A Gallon of Talk and a Teaspoon of Action, Then Label the Problem "Insolvable" and Plan Another Conference

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  What shall it avail, the latest speech-laden conference on this topic, when seventy-five years of intensive Holocaust education had no effect on Holocaust deniers and could not stop the resurgence of the virulent anti-Semitism that had infected Germany one hundred years ago?

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• SOURCE: The Jerusalem Report
  2/11/20
  

  Poland’s forgotten civil strife and the struggle for Jewish statehood

  by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez

  Israel and the Russian-Polish War of Narratives: How the contest for control of post-WWII Poland intersected with the struggle for Jewish statehood as two early arenas of the Cold War.

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• 2/13/20
  

  The Travesty of the Century

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  Whereas the US has over the years played a central role in the effort to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, no American administration has provided such a detailed proposal, certainly not one that grants Israel all of its wish list.

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• 2/2/20
  

  Israel as Palestine: One State is Not the Solution, It’s Reality

  by Ian S. Lustick

  The struggle for peace between Israel and the Palestinians has been replaced by struggles, likely to take generations, for the equalityof Jews and Arabs within the state now known as Israel.

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• SOURCE: The Third Narrative
  1/12/20
  

  AHA News: Resolutions on Israel and Academic Freedom Fail at AHA

  Members of the Alliance for Academic Freedom (AAF) were instrumental in defeating two proposed resolutions at the business meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020.

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• 11/26/19
  

  The History Behind the Rocket Used in the Latest Attack Against Israel

  by Gideon Remez

  Israel wielded a similar "mega-rocket" against Egypt 50 years ago. How Soviet advisers dealt with it.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  November 19, 2019
  

  WSJ Reviews Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century

  by Matti Friedman

  A writer tells the story of a region through the lens of one well-documented clan. 

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• SOURCE: Australian Outlook
  10/4/19
  

  Israel’s Fractured Democracy And Its Repercussions

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  A look at Israeli history and its latest headlines. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  September 25, 2019
  

  Israel’s First Prime Minister Was Complicated. So Is This Book About His Life.

  by Francine Klagsbrun

  Tom Segev studies and compares the life and associated policies of Israel’s very first Prime Minister in A STATE AT ANY COST: The Life of David Ben-Gurion.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  September 16, 2019
  

  The Oslo Accords’ Last Remnants Are Under Fire. Don’t Let Them Die.

  by Michael J. Koplow

  Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to apply sovereignty to Israel’s settlements throughout the West Bank after President Trump unveils his Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative. But Mr. Netanyahu’s fortunes and Mr. Trump’s plan may not matter with the longstanding rules of the Oslo Accords.

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• 8/26/19
  

  50 Years ago, the KGB weaponized the fire at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque to sow discord between Israel and the United States

  by Oren Nahari

  This discovery comes from a document obtained by historians Isabella Ginor  and Gideon Remez. A rent-a-crowd protest in India was aimed to affect the Egyptian-Israeli War of Attrition.

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• 8/25/19
  

  Israel’s 2007 Decision to Attack a Syrian Nuclear Facility is History and Warning

  by Edwin Black

  When reading Katz’s book, we are reminded that as complex and difficult as the Syrian strike was, any similar action on Iran’s nuclear capability would be infinitely more daunting and riskier. 

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• SOURCE: The Third Narrative
  8/22/19
  

  What Anti-Zionist Leftists Get Wrong

  by Bernard Bohbot

  Fully opposing the legitimacy of Zionism allows for the dubious proposition that Jews were wrong to seek a safe haven from persecution. 

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• SOURCE: Tikkun
  8/6/2019
  

  Today’s Christian-Jewish Zionist Alliance Imperils American Jewry

  by Jim Sleeper

  Jews’ long-standing security in the United States has relied on a hard-won consensus now being undermined by an unholy alliance.

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• 6/2/19
  

  The Bund was far from Perfect. It still matters to Jewish History

  by Joshua Meyers

  The Bund embodied the aspirations and identity of millions of Jews for five decades and provided serious answers to the questions Jews faced then and now.

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• SOURCE: The Third Narrative
  5/8/2019
  

  My Zionism is Personal and Complicated

  by Ralph Seliger

  Today’s an increasingly exasperating time for progressives who care about Israel’s future.

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• 6/2/19
  

  The Occupation of The Atlantic Mind

  by Walter L. Hixson

  The Atlantic magainze is distinguished by the intensity of its Zionist distortions of the past and present of the Palestine conflict.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/17/19
  

  Rashida Tlaib’s critics have Palestinian history all wrong

  by Maha Nassar

  The decades-long process that led to the creation of Israel involved plenty of Palestinian suffering.