Russia’s Return to the Middle East, and What It Means for Israel
As Putin tries to supplant the U.S., Jerusalem must remain realistic.
October 13, 2016
Lying about Oslo, European Edition
The New York Times knows its European readers don’t want to hear about suicide bombings.
In an obituary for the late Shimon Peres, the international edition of the New York Times referred to “an era of good feelings” that supposedly existed in 1994, when Peres received the Nobel Prize along with Yitzḥak Rabin and Yasir Arafat, but was then “shattered” when Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount in 2000. No mention is made of the wave of suicide bombings in 1996, although these led to Peres’s loss in the elections of that year. Evelyn Gordon comments:
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Attacks on the U.S. Navy Must Not Go Unpunished
An act of war by Iran against the United States.
Lying about Oslo, European Edition
The New York Times knows its European readers don’t want to hear about suicide bombings.
Primo Levi’s Halting Return to Judaism
In his own view, he became a Jew at Auschwitz, and a Jewish writer after writing about it.
The Dangers of Reading Too Little, or Too Much, into the Hebrew Bible
A philosopher’s approach.