A Firm Response at Sea Will Help, Not Hinder, Nuclear Negotiations with Iran
American inaction only makes the ayatollahs more daring.
August 13, 2021
The Causes of Arab-Israeli Unrest Don’t Lie in Economic Disparities
Radical leaders incite the population, even as it grows more prosperous.
In a recent speech, the Israeli internal security minister Omer Bar-Lev claimed that the shocking outbreaks of rioting and violence among Israel’s Arab citizens during the May war with Hamas were largely the results of socioeconomic inequality. Examining the historical record from the pre-state era to the present, Efraim Karsh shows a steady trend of growing Arab incomes and quality of life, coupled with successive waves of increasing radicalization—much of the latter resulting from the ideological influence of extremist Palestinian leaders.
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The Causes of Arab-Israeli Unrest Don’t Lie in Economic Disparities
Radical leaders incite the population, even as it grows more prosperous.
When Anti-Semitism and Vaccine Refusal Converge
Yellow stars and “laboratories of Jewish businessmen.”
A Literary Exploration of American Jews’ Relationship with Israel Makes a Distasteful Mockery of Zionism
Joshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus.
How the Hebrew Bible Sought to Humble the King
A human being must not forget that he is a king himself.