Why Israel Must Maintain Its Presence in the Jordan Valley
Peacekeepers and high-tech surveillance are no substitute for the IDF’s boots on the ground.
June 19, 2020
Why Palestinians Should Take to the Streets and Start Toppling Statues
Do Palestinian lives matter?
The recent passion in the West for tearing down statues, taking television shows off air, and “canceling” people seems for the most part driven by nihilism and ignorance. But Ruthie Blum insists that, nonetheless, there is a “need for serious intellectual debate over the type of material that a society wishes to promote or discourage.” And while some within the Black Lives Matter movement wish to coopt the Palestinian cause for their own purposes, and vice versa, there seems to be no room for debate over which figures Palestinian society should memorialize. Blum writes:
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The New U.S. Sanctions on Syria Will Help, Not Harm, Civilians
But the UN and the WHO remain complicit in Assad’s war crimes.
Why Palestinians Should Take to the Streets and Start Toppling Statues
Do Palestinian lives matter?
A New Book Argues That Adam Smith Is the Moral Philosopher for Our Age
Why we should listen to the impartial spectator within.
Grown from a 2,000-Year-Old Seed, a Tree Is a Reminder of the Land of Israel’s Verdant Past
A date palm named Methuselah.