arab-israeli conflict Archives

Obama: Pan-Islamic wolf in progressive clothing

Jewish Journal January 5, 2017

The December 23, 2016 UN vote proves that President Barack Obama only paid lip service to resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict during his eight years in office.

Human Rights Tragedies and Distortions

Jewish Journal December 8, 2014

December 10 is known as International Human Rights Day, commemorating the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948.

A 100-year cease-fire

Jewish Journal October 8, 2014

The Arab-Israeli conflict seems to be without end.

John B. Judis and the ‘Genesis’ of the Arab/Israeli conflict

Jonathan Kirsch February 12, 2014

The struggle for Israel’s survival is a far more complex and nuanced matter than the readers of Tom Friedman’s short takes in the New York Times might suspect.

The Arab-Israeli Conflict, through the eyes of an American child on the Arab side

Jonathan Kirsch April 15, 2010

“Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978” by Kai Bird (Scribner: $27.00, 384 pps.) offers a view of the Middle East from a unique and unfamiliar perspective. Bird is the son of an American diplomat whom he describes as an “Arabist,” that is, one of the State Department specialists whose sympathies lay with the Arab side of the Arab-Israeli conflict. As a result of his father’s postings, Bird grew up in East Jerusalem, Beirut, Cairo and Saudi Arabia, and he was exposed to an Arabist version of history in his childhood home.