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May 14, 2020

Stones Can Be Deadly Weapons, and Should Be Treated as Such

Responding to the murder of Amit Yigal.

Late Monday night, a group of Israeli soldiers entered a Palestinian village to arrest terror suspects. While leaving, the soldiers were set upon by ten villagers throwing stones, one of which killed Sergeant Amit Yigal. Meir Indor, who was himself once injured in the head by a rock thrown at his car, urges the Israeli government to change its policy toward stone throwers, who are now give light sentences and protected by the IDF rules of engagement:

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May 14, 2020

  1. A Secure Israel Strengthens Britain’s Interests in the Middle East

    Boris Johnson has a choice to make.

  2. Stones Can Be Deadly Weapons, and Should Be Treated as Such

    Responding to the murder of Amit Yigal.

  3. Supporters of BDS Shouldn’t Be University Administrators, Unless They Pledge to Put Their Prejudices Aside

    Could one trust such a person to negotiate an exchange program with Hebrew University?

  4. When a Medieval Jewish Philosopher Wrote a Treatise for a Muslim Governor

    Ibn Kammuna’s Abrahamic philosophical piety.

  5. To the Hebrew Poet Nathan Alterman, a Jew at a U.S. Political Convention Is Akin to an Old Man at a Nursery School

    I like Ike, but does Ike like me?