Less than three months ago, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry claimed that there was a link between Islamist terrorism and frustration over the Palestinian issue. Yet despite vigorous recent …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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1/7/15
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John Kerry has a new strategy for achieving Mideast peace: mobilize the international community to gang up on Israel.
That was the essence of the secretary of state’s disturbing remarks in …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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3/23/16
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A major American book publisher, deluged with criticism for leaving Israel off a map in its Middle East Atlas, has apologized and withdrawn the book from circulation. You don’t …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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1/7/15
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In what crazy, upside-down world does a Palestinian Arab randomly stab Jews in Jerusalem, get shot dead by Israeli policeman and then become the focus of an Associated Press article with a …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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6/5/19
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Past American administrations invested so heavily in fruitless attempts to facilitate Arab-Israel negotiations that American envoys came to be known as “peace processors” — that …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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2/20/19
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When I’m not in Israel, I don’t usually pay much attention to its weather. But an item last week about rainfall in the Holy Land caught my eye. It deserves the attention not only of …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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9/16/20
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The Turkish and Israeli authorities are still investigating the motives and plans of the Islamist terrorist who murdered three Israelis, two of them Israeli-Americans, in Istanbul last week. I …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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3/23/16
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Eight Jewish organizations this week signed a statement accusing Israel of, in effect, racism. Seven of them were left-wing groups whose harsh criticism of Israel is old news. But one was the …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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8/8/18
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The Biden administration is claiming that Israel has not provided evidence that the seven NGOs whose offices it closed down last week were tied to a terror group. Yet there is a mountain of …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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8/24/22
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Just when you thought things couldn’t get any messier over at the Center for Jewish History, a New York Times columnist who was invited to speak at an event there …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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10/25/17
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