Hardly a week passes without a media report concerning the growing chasm between American Jews and Israelis over issues of culture, religion and politics. The recent Israeli elections may aggravate the divide.
âIf Only Israel (IOI) syndrome,â a term I began using several years ago, is the misguided notion, peddled in the name of Israel's âbest interestsâ by some in the diplomatic, academic, and media worlds, that if only Israel did this or that, peace with the Palestinians would be at hand.
As Hamas fired deadly missiles at Israel for 11 straight days, Israelâs critics fired one verbal salvo after another. Unable or unwilling to distinguish between a terrorist organization, Hamas, seeking Israelâs destruction, and a democratic country trying to deny the groupâs wish, they went for the jugular. Here are 15 of the most memorably outrageous accusations.
Fifty-five years ago this month, the Six Day War broke out. Without an understanding of what happened in the past, itâs impossible to grasp where we are today â and where we are has profound relevance for the region and the world.
What went wrong between 1967 and 1973? The answer lies in two false assumptions. Israeli leaders had believed that the next war would look the same as the previous one. But the gravest mistake was the embracement of a concept, promoted by then-defense minister Moshe Dayan, that Egypt would not attack unless it had first matched Israel in airpower.