A New American Peace Proposal Could Be Very Bad for Israel
At stake: Israel’s security and sovereign existence.
June 23, 2017
The case of Otto Warmbier.
Unknown to most, Otto Warmbier—the U.S. citizen imprisoned by North Korea who returned in a coma and died shortly thereafter—was a Jew who participated in Birthright and was active in his campus Hillel House. Warmbier’s family kept this information secret at the advice of hostage negotiators who believed it would unnecessarily embarrass Pyongyang, which was officially claiming he was a Methodist secret agent. But why, asks Liel Leibovitz, has official American Jewry remained indifferent to his fate?
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Login or SubscribeAt stake: Israel’s security and sovereign existence.
The case of Otto Warmbier.
Iran sent a message with a ballistic missile.
The poet among us.
Amram Blau and his proselyte widow.