by Andreas Kluth “Abstention” is a deceptively diplomatic word, implying some sort of bureaucratic omission. And yet this week’s decision by the U.S. to abstain from casting its veto in the United Nations Security Council turned a page in history. For the first time since the ...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants Israel to hold new elections, and makes no secret that he thinks and hopes when they do, Bibi Netanyahu will be turned out. So he conveyed in a Thursday speech on the Senate floor that surprised and rankled many fellow Democrats. A senator ...
by Trudy Rubin The charge of “genocide” leveled at Israel before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, should be a wake-up call for Jerusalem, but not for the reasons you might think. South Africa has accused Israel before the United Nations’ highest ...
by Amir Sommer As the love child of a Palestinian father and an Israeli mother, all I want to say these days is: Stop, you are killing me twice. In the last three months, the most notorious conflict of our time has reached new levels of insanity. We are witnessing wholesale ...
by Noah Feldman In a rare bit of good news from Israel, the country’s High Court of Justice has issued a landmark judgment reinforcing the separation of powers in the face of right-wing efforts to undermine constitutional democracy. The decision vindicates the million-plus protesters ...
Ariah Ben Yehuda was still trying to figure out Tuesday if his lunch order at the Morgantown Eat ’n Park really was a metaphor of Western abundance and exuberance. Or maybe, came the second thought, it was just simply a nice meal, offered up in kindness and brotherhood. Either way, ...