A New Iran Deal Won’t Stop the Ayatollahs from Getting the Bomb, but It Will Give Them Millions to Spend on Terrorism
“Based on lies.”
September 2, 2022
The Fight for the Palestinian Authority Presidency Is Underway
Meet Hussein al-Sheikh, Mahmoud Abbas’s handpicked successor.
The eighty-six-year-old Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas draws his legitimacy from his victory in a 2005 election—the only such contest the PA has ever had. Despite his age and reports of ill health, he has shown no indication of plans to step down; however, he appears at long last to have designated a successor in the person of Hussein al-Sheikh, and the two have taken steps to get al-Sheikh elected head of Abbas’s Fatah party. Yoni Ben Menachem comments on the emerging situation:
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The Fight for the Palestinian Authority Presidency Is Underway
Meet Hussein al-Sheikh, Mahmoud Abbas’s handpicked successor.
Why the Case of the Yeshiva University Pride Alliance Matters for Religious Freedom in America
The dangers of “an unreasonably crabbed view of what it means to be a religious believer.”
When Stalin’s Secret Police Persecuted the Chabad Movement as Spies
The beginnings of the Doctors’ Plot.
The Tusk of an Enormous Prehistoric Elephant Discovered in Israel
Half a million years ago, humans lived in the Negev and hunted these beasts.