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israel
Hezbollah says Iran nuclear agreement ‘rules out specter of regional war’
Jewish Journal
April 6, 2015
The leader of Lebanon\’s Hezbollah said on Monday that a framework nuclear agreement that Iran reached with world powers last week rules out the specter of regional war.
After the fog of war: An early assessment of the Israel-Gaza conflict
Michael Berenbaum
August 13, 2014
It is far too early to assess the impact of the latest war in Gaza, but still some preliminary thoughts are in order:
Learning to argue on Tisha b’Av
Jewish Journal
July 31, 2014
As we approach Tisha b’Av, the State of Israel is at war. The day’s commemoration of sorrow and pain, and urgent calls for introspection and reflection, couldn’t be coming at a more needed time.
Why do people hate Israel?
Dennis Prager
July 23, 2014
We live in a bad world, but Israel isn\’t the enemy.
Blaming Birthright for a Gaza death
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2014
Is Birthright Israel to blame for the death of Max Steinberg, one of two American Israeli soldiers killed in the war in Gaza?
Obama tells Kerry to broker ‘immediate’ cease-fire in Gaza
Jewish Journal
July 21, 2014
President Obama told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to push for an “immediate cessation of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The war zone
Jewish Journal
July 21, 2014
As the hourly barrages of rockets continue from Gaza to Israel, I can’t help but focus simultaneously on my own personal challenge, though it be of little significance in comparison- my big, hot, third trimester of pregnancy, showing all the signs of “advanced maternal age,” according to my doctor.
The honesty of war
David Suissa
July 8, 2014
There’s something about war that can make intelligent people look foolish.
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