Universities Are in Thrall to a Constituency That Sees Israel as an Affront to Its Identity
Anti-Semitism is a symptom.
December 8, 2023
Hamas’s Surrender Must Be Israel’s Goal
It will only happen when its leadership believes it faces imminent annihilation.
Given the terrorist group’s intense ideological commitments, its glorification of “martyrdom,” and the recent experiences of various militaries fighting jihadist groups, there is reason to think that Hamas will keep fighting until the last man. But there are also reasons to think otherwise, among them photographs that appeared yesterday in the Israeli press of the IDF detaining dozens of fighters who, presumably, had surrendered. Robert Satloff and Dennis Ross write:
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Hamas’s Surrender Must Be Israel’s Goal
It will only happen when its leadership believes it faces imminent annihilation.
Understanding Hamas’s War in Its Own Terms
It’s not a struggle for liberation.
Interpreting Joseph’s Dreams Through the Lens of Childhood Trauma
Reading Joseph through Jacob and Esau.
A New Look at a Popular Hanukkah Song’s Mysterious, and Controversial, Final Stanza
“In exile, not only is history unfinished, but so is poetry.”