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February 19, 2019

The Impossibility of Unilateral Withdrawal from the West Bank

What Benny Gantz gets wrong.

Since throwing his hat into the ring for the Israeli premiership, the former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz has been reticent about his policy plans. Nonetheless, he has made clear his openness to unilateral disengagement from the West Bank along the lines of the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, stating the necessity of finding “a way in which we’re not controlling other people.” Gershon Hacohen argues that any such plan would be ill-advised:

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February 19, 2019

  1. The Impossibility of Unilateral Withdrawal from the West Bank

    What Benny Gantz gets wrong.

  2. America’s Middle East Allies Should Not Be Paying for Syria’s Reconstruction

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  3. Hamas Is Creating a Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

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  4. The Spoils of War in Jewish Law

    The Torah permits plunder, but also disapproves.

  5. The Thin Line between Philo-Semitism and Anti-Semitism in 20th-Century Japan

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