How a Tiny Change to Voting Laws Created Israel’s Political Crisis
It’s a basic rule of negotiations: the most strident party is inevitably the one with the upper hand.
October 20, 2022
To Build on the Abraham Accords, Look to Southeast Asia
What southwest Asia can learn from another alliance.
Earlier this year, the foreign ministers of Israel, the U.S., the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Egypt gathered for a summit at a kibbutz in the Negev—an event that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago. Representatives of these countries reconvened in June and established the “Negev Forum” as a basis for further regional cooperation. Hoping that this new institution will both benefit its members and expand to include other pro-Western nations in the Middle East, Daniel B. Shapiro holds up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a model to emulate:
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To Build on the Abraham Accords, Look to Southeast Asia
What southwest Asia can learn from another alliance.
The U.S. Shouldn’t Be Sheltering Former Iranian Officials
Academic positions allow them to establish themselves as experts.
In America, Jewish Studies Suffers from a De-Judaization of Scholarship and Disavowal of National Particularism
Fear of being “Jewishly focused.”
The Eccentric Canadian Rabbi Who Popularized the Golem Legend and Translated the Zohar
While forging sources and peddling quack cures.