Allan Gerson
By Allan Gerson
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Opinion Trump’s CNN Tweet Evoked The Nazis
Last week I was at Foehrenwald, the site of a former refugee camp where I grew up. Located in southern Germany, near Munich, next to the town of Wolfratshausen, it was once a refugee camp for displaced persons in the U.S. zone of occupation. There, under the auspices of United Nations relief agencies, 5,000 Holocaust…
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Opinion Why Obama’s Failure To Veto U.N. Resolution Was Bad for America
President Obama’s stinging December 23 refusal to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements as a “flagrant violation of international law” did more than just excite enraged claims that America abandoned Israel or stabbed it in the back. In departing from the custom of every American administration of the last four decades, Obama…
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News Max Kampelman, Voice for Soviet Jewry, Evolved But Never Changed
Max Kampelman, who died on January 25 at the age of 92, was lauded often as one of the great men of our times for his role as chief U.S. arms control negotiator in the Reagan administration. He won no less praise for his diplomatic role in enabling the emigration of hundreds of thousands of…
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Opinion The Limits of Clarity, and Benefits of Ambiguity
It has been nearly two years since the Obama administration set out to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, yet virtually no progress has been made. One thing, however, that the process has not lacked is clarity. Americans, Israelis and Palestinians have been very clear in articulating their demands. Yet this very clarity has often turned…
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