For the first part, look here. The roots of success are found in a civil society and the rule of law. In America and Israel, hateful speech is met not with violence, but with counter arguments, moral suasion, and sanction. Anecdotally, when swastikas began to trend on twitter, the Times of Israel held a public [...]
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For what is hopefully the last time, the leaders of the world at the United Nations General Assembly were unfairly forced to endure another vitriolic speech from the “President” of Iran. I use the term President loosely, for the Iranian people suffer under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rule, despite his claims of service to the noble people [...]
Without a powerful patron Israel’s opponents struggle to keep pace with her military might. Her opponents, then, sponsor terrorism as a way to hurt Israel. Terrorism very rarely leads to success, but it publicizes a cause. If nothing else, terrorism keeps a people under siege. These terrorist groups are locally rooted, internationally sponsored, and directed at [...]
Question: Why #Israel can have NBC weapons and not #Iran? Answer: Israel does not pose an existential threat to its neighbors. –from the @actforisrael twitter feed. Israel acquired nuclear weapons as a deterrent. Military victory conditioned many to see the Israeli Defense Force as a potent juggernaut capable of taking on any foe. This was an image that [...]
May 15, 1998 marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the British Mandate of Palestine, and the creation of the State of Israel. It was nearly five years after the signing of the “Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements,” better known as the Oslo Accords, between Israel and the PLO that led to [...]
The continued existence of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has played a key role in the Arab-Israeli Conflict for decades, but not necessarily a positive one. In fact, the title of a 2008 Jonathan Spyer piece puts UNRWA’s role succinctly into perspective: UNRWA: Barrier to Peace. Yet UNRWA was not [...]
