Has the Jewish Agency Lost Sight of Its Purpose?
When “aliyah” becomes a dirty word.
October 31, 2019
The Irrationality of Punishing Israel by Withholding Aid
Slashing security assistance could cost lives, but it won’t change Israel’s behavior.
Recently several Democratic presidential candidates have raised the possibility of withholding American financial assistance to the Jewish state to induce it to make policy changes. Such a move, notes Michael Koplow, wouldn’t be unprecedented—both George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan did so. To Koplow, however, cutting aid would likely “create more problems than it solves”:
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The Irrationality of Punishing Israel by Withholding Aid
Slashing security assistance could cost lives, but it won’t change Israel’s behavior.
The Myths Indulged by Israeli Advocates of a Palestinian “Right of Return”
The Manichean distinction between “colonized” and “colonizers” does not stand the test of historical scrutiny.
Why Moral Persons Should Hate Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
What Judaism teaches, and Christianity does not, about hating the wicked.
An Ancient Hammer and Nails Found in What Was Once a Major Jewish Village in the Galilee
It probably didn’t belong to Usha’s most famous rabbi.