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The Only Goal

June 22, 2008 | Amb. Dore Gold

Review: Churchill’s Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft by Michael Makovsky (Yale University Press, 368 pages, $36) Winston Churchill is not usually regarded as one of the leading British statesmen responsible for Britain’s backing of the Zionist movement and the resurrection of the Jewish national home. The names of Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, who authored the […]

The Hamas Interest in the Tahdiya (Temporary Truce) with Israel

June 19, 2008 | Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi

In an interview with Al-Jazeera (April 26, 2008), Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal clarified that for Hamas, a tahdiya is “a tactic in conflict management.” He added that it “is not unusual for the resistance...to escalate sometimes and to retreat a bit sometimes as the tide does....The tahdiya creates a formulation that will force Israel...to remove the siege...and if it happens it will be a remarkable achievement.”

Antisemitism Embedded in British Culture

June 11, 2008 | Prof. Robert S. Wistrich

Antisemitism has been present in Great Britain for almost a thousand years of recorded history. In the twelfth century, Catholic medieval Britain was a persecutory society, particularly when it came to Jews. It pioneered the blood libel and the church was a leader in instituting cruel legislation and discriminatory conduct toward Jews.

From Durban I to Durban II: Preventing Poisonous Anti-Semitism

June 6, 2008 | Alfred H. Moses

Robert Kennedy’s 1948 Reports from Palestine

June 5, 2008 | Lenny Ben-David

Israel at Sixty: Asymmetry, Vulnerability, and the Search for Security

June 1, 2008 | Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg

Syria: Between Negotiations with Israel and the Iranian Axis

May 27, 2008 | David Schenker

The Golan Heights and the Syrian-Israeli Negotiations

May 22, 2008 | Amb. Dore Gold

President Truman’s Decision to Recognize Israel

May 1, 2008 | Amb. Richard Holbrooke

American Jewry and the State of Israel: How Intense are the Bonds of Peoplehood?

April 30, 2008 | Steven Bayme

The Diplomatic Dance with Hamas

April 30, 2008 | Prof. Efraim Karsh

The Palestinian Refugee Issue: Rhetoric vs. Reality

April 28, 2008 | Sidney Zabludoff

Expanding Holocaust Denial and Legislation Against It

April 27, 2008 | Michael Whine

Representations of the Holocaust in Today’s Germany: Between Justification and Empathy

April 26, 2008 | Dr. Susanne Urban

Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Italy, 1945-1951

April 25, 2008 | Dr. Susanna Kokkonen