The Impending, and Disastrous, Iran Deal
State Department sources report that it is far worse than the Obama-era nuclear agreement.
March 9, 2022
The PLO Has Renounced Its Agreements with Israel—and Demonstrated Its Own Irrelevance
In the West Bank, it’s the ruler who matters, not the institutions.
Last month, a senior figure of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) declared that the group’s governing body had decided “to renounce all the commitments of the Oslo Accords,” along with any other “agreements with the state of Israel,” and end security cooperation with the Israeli government. It was the PLO that was party to the Oslo Accords, which in turn created the Palestinian Authority (PA) to govern in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank. Thus, as Maurice Hirsch explains, this decision should be significant. But reality is somewhat different:
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Placing Israel’s Position on Ukraine in Context
Understanding Israel’s moral dilemma.
The PLO Has Renounced Its Agreements with Israel—and Demonstrated Its Own Irrelevance
In the West Bank, it’s the ruler who matters, not the institutions.
Israel Museum Acquires Rare 255-Year-Old Scroll of Esther, Penned by Fourteen-Year-Old Girl in Rome
The teenager completed the illustrated manuscript in March 1767.
Jews in Early America
Historians examine the daily life and contributions of colonial Jewry.