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December 11, 2017

Explaining the Fracas over President Trump’s Jerusalem Announcement

Bowing to threats is the wrong response.

The White House’s official statement last week acknowledging the location of Israel’s capital unleashed a torrent of indignant reactions: from Palestinian politicians (“President Trump . . . made the biggest mistake of his life”), to European politicians (a “catastrophe,” according to the Swedish foreign minister, shortly before a group of thugs firebombed a synagogue in her country), and even from U.S. Democratic congressmen who had voted for resolutions calling for the president to relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem. Elliott Abrams, praising what he calls “a victory for common sense as well as for history,” analyzes the fuss:

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December 11, 2017

  1. Explaining the Fracas over President Trump’s Jerusalem Announcement

    Bowing to threats is the wrong response.

  2. What China’s Plans for the Eastern Mediterranean Imply for Greece and Israel

    The “Belt and Road” initiative.

  3. What Does Biblical Faith Have to Do with Political Freedom?

    Exploring the links between Judaism and conservatism.

  4. Getting Yitzḥak Rabin’s Legacy Right

    A recent book captures the big picture, but makes some important mistakes.

  5. A Memoir of an Extraordinary Anglo-Jewish Family

    What You Did Not Tell Me.