Iran Can’t Win a War against the U.S., but It Can Win in Negotiations
Calibrated terrorism as a prelude to diplomatic maneuvers.
May 17, 2019
Exaggerated Accusations of Polish Complicity in the Holocaust Won’t Help Combat Warsaw’s Revisionism
Yair Lapid mangles history while Polish anti-Semitism increases.
Last week, the Israeli parliamentarian Yair Lapid—the co-chair of the Blue and White party—gave an interview to a Polish radio station in which he stated that “Poles cooperated in creating and running extermination camps” and, furthermore, that “it is no coincidence that the Nazis created their center of extermination in Poland. They knew that the Polish population would help them.” Ben Cohen argues that such statements, which are not the first from Lapid, only encourage Polish hostility toward frank discussion of the Shoah:
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The Inside Story of Israel’s Destruction of a Syrian Nuclear Reactor
In 2007 Assad was on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons.
A Muddled Definition of Islamophobia Undermines Real Efforts to Combat Bigotry
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Exaggerated Accusations of Polish Complicity in the Holocaust Won’t Help Combat Warsaw’s Revisionism
Yair Lapid mangles history while Polish anti-Semitism increases.
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