Normalization with Egypt Should Be Israel’s Next Peacemaking Goal
The time may be ripe for a cold peace to thaw.
November 16, 2020
Saeb Erekat’s Life Was Dedicated to Preventing Peace
A man who justified meeting generous proposals with violence.
Saeb Erekat, who served as one of the PLO’s leading negotiators from the 1991 Madrid peace conference through the talks between Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert in 2007-8, and remained one of the group’s most prominent spokesmen, died last week of complications related to COVID-19. In an article for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, seven American former foreign-policy poohbahs—including the would-be peacemaker Dennis Ross and the Obama-administration Middle East adviser Robert Malley—joined together to eulogize Erekat, writing that he “deeply believed in dialogue and reconciliation with Israelis, eschewed violence, and lived his life accordingly.”
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For Jews and for Gentiles, Jonathan Sacks Was a Prophet Who Warned of the Dangers of Secularism
Perspectives from a rabbi and from a Muslim.
Saeb Erekat’s Life Was Dedicated to Preventing Peace
A man who justified meeting generous proposals with violence.
One Georgia Senatorial Candidate Has a Record of Slandering Israel
Raphael Warnock.
Mourning the Loss of Four Great Scholars of Jewish Ideas
And understanding the two rival forms of religious Zionism.