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October 19, 2018

Palestinian Acceptance of Israel as the Jewish State Must Be a Prerequisite to Further Negotiations

And Washington should demand that it is.

In 1993, in the early days of the Oslo peace process, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) under Yasir Arafat accepted the “right of the state of Israel to exist in peace and security.” But neither it nor its heir, the Palestinians Authority, has ever accepted Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, or the right of the Jewish people to self-determination. Robert Barnidge explains why this distinction matters:

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October 19, 2018

  1. Palestinian Acceptance of Israel as the Jewish State Must Be a Prerequisite to Further Negotiations

    And Washington should demand that it is.

  2. Has America Lost Afghanistan?

    Yesterday’s attack and Washington’s lack of will.

  3. Milton Himmelfarb’s Complex and Idiosyncratic Spirituality

    A Jewish intellectual who bucked the general wisdom.

  4. Joseph B. Soloveitchik on Jewish Law and America’s Promise

    He understood his adopted country’s potential, and its vulnerabilities.

  5. Israel’s New High-Speed Railway and the End of Old Israel

    The train ride Theodor Herzl called “torture.”