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Articles by Assaf Sharon
Netanyahu’s Palestine Philosophy Is Finally Exposed
Middle East and North Africa In 1978, a 28-year-old Ben Nitay—the Americanized name that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adopted at the time—explained to a Boston audience that “the stumbling block to the road for peace is this demand for a PLO state.” Since then, his life’s mission has been to prevent it.
Netanyahu's Palestine Philosophy Is Finally Exposed
1 hour ago Millions of people and businesses in sanctions-hit country keep absorbing economic shockwaves, with analysts saying the trend looks set to continue. Tehran, Iran – Millions of people across Iran are struggling for livelihood and survival, but the country’s embattled economy is still far from a state …
After War With Iran, Israel Can Still Lose the Peace
Iran Middle East and North Africa The Middle East is transforming before our eyes. While much of the global conversation fixates on the volleys of violence between Israel and Iran, a far more profound shift is underway: The regional order established after two world wars is coming to an end. The paramount question is no longer whether the old arrangements will survive, but what the new order will look like. In 1967, Israel achieved its greatest military feat.
An Examination of Pedestrian Crossing Behaviors at Signalized Intersections with Bus Priority Routes
1. Introduction In light of the growing problem of congestion in urban areas, policies promoting the use of public transportation are encouraged around the world [,,]. In Europe, public transport is considered as an integral part of sustainable urban development aiming to promote active travel modes, walking, and cycling []; in the USA, transit-oriented development is supported, aiming to attain more resilient, healthier, and all-inclusive cities [].
Israel is hurtling toward a new kind of illiberal regime
We are witnessing a new phenomenon: the rise of a party state in Israel Open gallery view A poster with a half-Netanyahu, half-Orban image at a protest against the judicial overhaul. The problem with the Orban regime, or its Polish twin, is not only the tyranny of the majority vis-à-vis the minority, but the fact that it's no longer a free society.
‘This Obstinate Little Man’
David Ben-Gurion; illustration by Andrea Ventura “A tiny, thick-set little man with white hair—a Pickwickian cherub.” This was Richard Crossman’s first impression in 1946 of David Ben-Gurion. As head of the Jewish Agency, the executive branch of the Zionist Organization, Ben-Gurion appeared before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry assessing the situation in Palestine after World War II.
How Israel Weaponizes International Law
The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine. Legal scholars must face this fact head on. In an article published last winter in the Harvard International Law Journal, legal scholar Naz K. Modirzadeh criticizes contemporary scholars working on the laws of war for their “distanced, remote, and abstract” work. Often devoid of both political context and historical background, such scholarship, Modirzadeh laments, often makes “no reference to . . .
The Long Paralysis of the Israeli Left
The Long Paralysis of the Israeli Left Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron Norton, 290 pp., $16.95 (paper) Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman by Itamar Rabinovich Yale University Press, 272 pp., $25.00; $15.00 (paper) David Rubinger/Corbis/Getty ImagesYitzhak Rabin addressing Israeli troops, Sidon, Lebanon, 1985 The Israeli political system is in a weird stalemate.
How the Israeli right delegitimizes critics, and how the left should respond - Opinion - Israel News
Spokesmen of secular Zionism should learn from the iconic writer Y. H. Brenner: He never dreamed of justifying himself to critics who accused him of being funded by foreign missionaries
Confronting Religious Revivalism
An IDF solider prays at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Photo: Corey Jackson Over the last few decades many Western nations have become less religious, but countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East—even the United States itself, in fervor if not in numbers—have seen the rise of a religious revivalism that is dramatically reshaping politics.
An Open Letter to Elie Wiesel
In a recent public letter to President Obama, Elie Wiesel urged the President not to “pressure” Israel to cease settlement activity in Jerusalem. According to Wiesel: For me, the Jew that I am, Jerusalem is above politics. It is mentioned more than six hundred times in Scripture—and not a single time in the Koran. Its presence in Jewish history is overwhelming…. To many theologians, it IS Jewish history….
The Jewish Terrorists
September 24, 2015 Issue In the early morning hours of July 31 this summer masked men torched two houses in the West Bank village of Duma. One of the houses was empty. In the other, the Dawabsheh family lay sleeping. Saad, his wife Riham, and their four-year-old son Ahmad were severely injured as flames spread through their bedroom. Eighteen-month-old Ali burned to death, and Saad died a week later of his wounds.
The Jewish Terrorists
In the early morning hours of July 31 this summer masked men torched two houses in the West Bank village of Duma. One of the houses was empty. In the other, the Dawabsheh family lay sleeping. Saad, his wife Riham, and their four-year-old son Ahmad were severely injured as flames spread through their bedroom. Eighteen-month-old Ali burned to death, and Saad died a week later of his wounds.
The Moral Siege - Boston Review
Bills posted for a Rabbi Meir Kahane memorial rally. Photograph: Yossi Gurvitz Addressing Israel’s offensive in Gaza, John Kerry said: “Israel is under siege by a terrorist organization.” Living in Israel, I found the secretary’s comment baffling. In my city, Jerusalem, the sirens have sounded only three times. Tel Aviv and its vicinity has had it worse, with three dozen sirens or so over the last month. Yet daily routine has not been greatly affected.
The Moral Siege | Boston Review
Addressing Israel’s offensive in Gaza, John Kerry said: “Israel is under siege by a terrorist organization.” Living in Israel, I found the secretary’s comment baffling. In my city, Jerusalem, the sirens have sounded only three times. Tel Aviv and its vicinity has had it worse, with three dozen sirens or so over the last month. Yet daily routine has not been greatly affected. In the south, near the Gaza strip, things are different.
The Moral Responsibility of Volunteer Soldiers
U.S. Army recruits wait their turn to go through the convoy live-fire course during basic combat training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. The military services in the United States have been organized on a volunteer basis since 1973, when President Richard Nixon abolished the draft.
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