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January 2, 2019

Repeating Old Mistakes Won’t Help the People of Gaza

It’s necessary to resist fantasizing about the motivations of the involved parties.

Last month, two highly regarded Washington think tanks produced a report urging the U.S. to take a “proactive” approach to save the Gaza Strip from economic and humanitarian crisis through “vigorous diplomacy” involving the Palestinian Authority (PA), Hamas’s sponsors Qatar and Turkey, the UN, the EU, and other Middle Eastern states. The report’s suggestions, notes Peter Berkowitz, are not so different from those in a similar policy paper released a decade ago, or from the actual policies of the Obama administration. And they are just as unlikely to succeed:

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January 2, 2019

  1. Repeating Old Mistakes Won’t Help the People of Gaza

    It’s necessary to resist fantasizing about the motivations of the involved parties.

  2. The Pros and Cons, for Israel, of the U.S. Withdrawal from Syria

    The foundation of the Jewish state’s security doctrine is that it will defend itself.

  3. Amos Oz’s Place in the Jewish Literary Canon—in His Own View

    Will he be placed with Sholem Asch or with S.Y. Agnon?

  4. Recent Attacks on J.K. Rowling Reveal Something about the Anti-Semitism of the Left

    Those who insist that an anti-Zionist need not be an anti-Semite unwittingly prove the opposite.

  5. Remembering the French Jew Who Saved Hundreds of Children during the Holocaust

    Georges Loinger.