Last May, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin pledged he’d recognize the Armenian Genocide in the Knesset. Rivlin’s a moderate in the Likud Party, but he’s been a hawk on the issue. For five years, the Knesset has been debating commemorating the Ottoman Empire’s crimes. In 2011, they finally made the discussions public. So why is it so [...]
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Considering the Holocaust, Will Israel Have the Balls to Recognize the Armenian Genocide?
Posted on 30 April 2012.
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Israeli-French Relations are Already Shaky
Posted on 02 April 2012.
Israel and France have had a complicated relationship for decades. In the 1960s, French President Charles de Gaulle abruptly severed his country’s alliance with Israel in favor of ties with Arab countries. The French were suffering after the Algerian War of Independence, so Israel was hung out to dry. But France is extremely important for [...]
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French Murders Send Shockwaves through Israel
Posted on 02 April 2012.
Israeli papers are treating the attack in France as if it happened in Tel Aviv or Ashdod. The pictures of the victims are spread across the newspapers like the Fogel family’s were after last year’s massacre in the West Bank. The attack has hit a raw nerve in Israel in much the same way, and [...]
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Would Iran Ever Actually Use Nukes?
Posted on 19 March 2012.
I haven’t written much on Iran’s nuclear weapons because, in my years as a blogger, I thought whatever I wrote would just get lost in the pile of other posts on the topic. But for as long as I have been writing, the analysis hasn’t changed much. What will happen with Iran’s nuclear program is still [...]
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Israel’s Spiritual Challenge
Posted on 05 March 2012.
The Light and the Darkness A Look at Israel’s Political Challenges and Overcoming Them. Orthodox Jews define Purim in many ways. It is associated with autonomy, salvation, and euphoria, and therefore easily translatable into the political goings-on for Jews today. As a result, Purim is often attached to Jews’ modern dilemmas and crises. Because of [...]
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Syria and Israel’s Future
Posted on 20 February 2012.
A Look at Israel’s Political Challenges and Overcoming Them It’s tough to analyze how things will play out for Israel in the wake of any of the instances of instability in the Arab World over the past year. Virtually any article on the topic is contrived. The reason is simply because Israel is not central [...]
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