What the President’s Riyadh Speech Got Right, and What It Overlooked
Where does terrorism come from, anyway?
May 23, 2017
The Six-Day War Viewed from Inside the Israeli Cabinet
Gripping reading from recently declassified documents.
Following the Hebrew calendar, the June 1967 conflict began 50 years ago yesterday. Israel has, for the occasion, made public the transcripts of the deliberations of its security cabinet—an inner circle convened to make crucial military and security decisions—during the year of the war. For the first four months of 1967, the key concern was how to respond to sporadic artillery and rifle fire from Syria, much of it directed at demilitarized zones and farmlands; only a few weeks before war broke out did the threat from Egypt, which precipitated the war, become clear. Yaacov Lozowick summarizes the deliberations:
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Could a Trump Doctrine Repair America’s Middle East Policy?
Dismissing long-held fallacies about the region.
His Life with Hebrew
After many decades, not yet fluent.
The Six-Day War Viewed from Inside the Israeli Cabinet
Gripping reading from recently declassified documents.
Government Shouldn’t Be Responsible for Keeping Politics away from the Pulpit
The Jewish case against the Johnson Amendment.