Israel’s New Peace Treaties Reveal How Much the Experts Misunderstood the Middle East
The naysayers are wrong.
October 5, 2020
What the Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict Might Mean for Israel, Iran, and the Middle East
Bad for Jerusalem, worse for Tehran?
The fighting that recently erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan has its origins in the former’s occupation of a segment of the latter’s territory in a war that followed the breakup of the Soviet Union. Behind these military engagements are ethnic tensions between these two Transcaucasian peoples that stretch back at least to the 19th century—as well as complex geopolitical forces. Harold Rhode tries to make sense of the muddle of larger and smaller powers who have an interest in the current war’s outcome:
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Insults Israel’s Supporters, Especially the Remaining Jewish Liberals Among Them
Boycotting Yitzhak Rabin.
What the Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict Might Mean for Israel, Iran, and the Middle East
Bad for Jerusalem, worse for Tehran?
A Memoir of the Gulag Explores the Baleful Consequences of Soviet Tyranny for the Jews—and for Russia
When Jews preferred Nazi ghettos to Soviet equality of rights.
Englishness, Jewishness, Saul Bellow—and Martin Amis
The novelist in search of a literary father.