This week in power: Latest from Israel and Newsweek cover story

A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:

Fighting continues
“As Israel intensified its aerial assaults on Tuesday against symbols of Hamas rule in Gaza and other targets, new efforts were underway to forge a cease-fire, though they were mired in confusion and mixed signals after 22 days of fighting,” ” target=”_blank”>reported Reuters. “Hamas is vile. I would happily see it destroyed. But Hamas is also the product of a situation that Israel has reinforced rather than sought to resolve,” ” target=”_blank”>said David Ignatius in The Washington Post: “Kerry’s mistake isn’t any bias against Israel but rather a bias in favor of an executable, short-term deal.”

Anti-semtiism in focus
Newsweek's cover story this week ” target=”_blank”>said the BBC's Gavin Hewitt. “A colleague of mine said recently that in 25 years he could not recall the Middle East so riven by violenceIt is unleashing hatreds and presents Europe with a challenge: preserving freedoms to condemn, to denounce, to oppose – but not to indulge racism and the language of hate,” he wrote. We need to fix the conversation,