Should the U.S. Learn to Live with Assad?
Yes, he’s winning. But we need not get used to it.
March 29, 2018
Why the Supreme Court Should Hear the Victims’ Case against the PLO
The 1992 Anti-Terrorism Act is constitutionally sound.
Today the Supreme Court decides which cases it will hear in the upcoming session; among the petitioners are a group of American citizens whose family members were murdered in Israel during the second intifada. A federal court had ordered the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to pay the plaintiffs $655.5 million, but a court of appeals then threw out the verdict on the grounds that foreign organizations could not be tried in American courts for crimes committed abroad. Yishai Schwartz argues that this latter decision is wrong, and that the Supreme Court should restore the ruling against the PLO and PA. (Free registration may be required.)
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Egypt’s Relations with Israel Are Good. So Why All the Anti-Israel Propaganda?
Explaining the “cold peace.”
Why the Supreme Court Should Hear the Victims’ Case against the PLO
The 1992 Anti-Terrorism Act is constitutionally sound.
Which Jews Came Out of Egypt? And When Did God Get Out of Our Heads?
Two important new books on the Bible.
Amsterdam’s Jewish History Lives on in Language and Soccer
And not always for good.