Critics of Israel’s Nation-State Law Misunderstand the Country’s Constitutional System
Whatever its flaws, it’s not one bit undemocratic.
August 8, 2018
Remembering Iran’s Role in al-Qaeda’s U.S. Embassy Bombings
Two decades later.
Yesterday was the twentieth anniversary of the coordinated truck-bombings, carried out by al-Qaeda, of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania—which left 224 dead and thousands wounded. In planning the bombing, its most deadly attack prior to September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda received help and training from Iran and its proxy Hizballah, and it seems that Osama bin Laden deliberately modeled the attack on Hizballah’s 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. Thomas Joscelyn writes:
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In Syria and Gaza, Israel Shows That Diplomacy and Force Work Best in Tandem
A big stick and little carrots.
Remembering Iran’s Role in al-Qaeda’s U.S. Embassy Bombings
Two decades later.
What Did the Second Temple’s Floor Look Like?
Elaborate Roman-style tiles.
Jacques Lipchitz, Tuscany’s Great Jewish Sculptor
His villa is now a ḥasidic summer camp.