Turkey’s Increasing Belligerence, and What It Means for Israel
Ankara’s aggression towards its neighbors could bring it into conflict with the Jewish state.
September 9, 2020
Why Balkan Embassies Should Matter to Israel
Kosovars and Palestinians in fact have little in common.
Last week, Serbia and Kosovo agreed to establish normal economic relations—a major step toward bringing an end to the conflicts following the fall of Yugoslavia that caused so much bloodshed in the 1990s. Kosovo, historically a region of Serbia with a predominantly Albanian-speaking and Muslim population, declared independence from Orthodox Christian-dominated Serbia in 2008, but has yet to be recognized by many countries. As a corollary to the U.S.-brokered agreement, Israel will establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo, and both Kosovo and Serbia will establish embassies in Jerusalem. Lahav Harkov comments:
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Why Balkan Embassies Should Matter to Israel
Kosovars and Palestinians in fact have little in common.
Hizballah Is the Major Force behind Lebanon’s Crisis
Is federalism the answer?
How to Transform Jewish Law into a Tool of Spiritual and Ethical Cultivation
Musar, Modern Orthodoxy, and pedagogy.
How Europe’s First Jewish Medical-School Graduates Fought a 17th-Century Pandemic
The plague in Padua.