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… my own life along with the entire modern history of our country, I went further. Zionism, the founding architecture of Israel, was rooted in finding a way to supplant not just the life, but the way of thinking, which hard-pressed Jewish communities had internalised over centurie...

…he government — through mass rallies, political mobilization, and populist rhetoric — to abrogate the peace treaty with Israel or to qualitatively shift, if not downgrade, bilateral relations with the United States. Such a dynamic would inadvertently put pressure on post-revoluti...

…furiously on his cigarette. When the erect figure of Sadat emerged, there was spontaneous applause, and a serenade from Israeli army trumpeters. Even before Sadat’s Knesset address the next day, I understood that his visit, his willingness to make the first, bold move toward a p...

…furiously on his cigarette. When the erect figure of Sadat emerged, there was spontaneous applause, and a serenade from Israeli army trumpeters. Even before Sadat’s Knesset address the next day, I understood that his visit, his willingness to make the first, bold move toward a p...

…senfeld. This time, however, the counter- wave was powerful. J Street, an organization not around in 2003 that supports Israel but opposes the settlements, issued a statement calling CUNY’s action “unacceptable.” Former mayor Ed Koch, of impeccable pro-Israel credentials, weighed...

…those of the Galileans, who live more precarious, warlike lives. Countries can be divided over lesser issues — and when Israel is divided, it is vulnerable even to regional threats. We say "even" because geography dictates that regional threats are less menacing than might be ex...

…, Republicans will be able to make gains not only among American Jews but also among evangelicals who are supportive of Israel on biblical grounds, and other voters. Mr. Bolton said that he was on a cruise sponsored by the conservative magazine Weekly Standard last week in the M...

…hile denying a challenger from the east the opportunity to enter the Mediterranean. Holding the Levant, and controlling Israel, is a necessary preventive measure for a Mediterranean empire. Israel is also important to any empire originating to the east of Israel, either in the T...

…ty. Today’s U.N. and most “human rights” NGOs fail this test. My defense of Western democracies, and most particularly Israel, against deliberately exaggerated charges regarding human rights, led to an offer that presented me with an existential challenge to my dual identity as...

3 Alas, though, the main strategy of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas will be to drag Israel into the Arab story — as a way of deflecting attention away from how these anti-democratic regimes are repressing their own people and to further delegitimize Israel, by making sure it r...

8 reality to portray Fatah as colluding with Israel against the Palestinian people during a confrontation. For its part, Hamas has the support of Islamists in the region, including Shiite Iranians, but that is an explosive mix to base a strategy on. Hamas must break its isolati...

…hose peculiar facts which must be called free-floating” and concluded with a veiled threat to both American Jews and to Israel: “To put the matter brutally, many American Jewish leaders were capable of ignoring the Asian holocaust in favor of economic and military aid to Israel ....

…ngular, unifying force that might suffice to break the military's power, or at least to force the military to shift its Israeli policy. Hamas in conflict with Israel as the United Nations votes for a Palestinian state also places Fatah on the political defensive among the Palesti...

3 to either Israel or Egypt and it will be delivered by truck. Sea access must remain blocked to prevent weapons smuggling. The Israeli position defies a brutal truth: last year’s flotilla made a big difference for the people of Gaza — at a terrible cost in lives — by refocusin...

…ed by its American-led allies, during World War Two. But any pride in having prevailed was outweighed by simple relief Israel had survived. Even that was nothing compared to the sadness felt over friends lost, and the resentment and sense of betrayal toward the generals and poli...