David A. Harris
By David A. Harris
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Opinion The Road to Justice in Argentina Leads to Iran
On July 18, 1994, the deadliest postwar terrorist attack against a Jewish target took place in Buenos Aires. The seven-story headquarters of the AMIA, the Argentine Jewish community’s central welfare body, was destroyed. Eighty-five people, Jews and non-Jews alike, were killed; hundreds were wounded. It followed in the wake of another deadly terrorist assault in…
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Opinion Rebuilding Trans-Atlantic Ties
Call me hopelessly, irredeemably naive, but I remain convinced that Americans and Europeans are umbilically bound by common fundamental values and common existential threats, and thus, ipso facto, a common agenda. This was not necessarily obvious in 2003, with demonstrators filling the streets of Europe to protest George W. Bush’s, and to a lesser extent…
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Opinion The Wonder That Is Israel
Israel’s 55th birthday this week is a time to step back, if just for a moment, from the whirlwind of daily events — terrorist attacks against Israelis, road map prognostications, internal Palestinian maneuvering, Labor Party changes in Israel — and reflect on the larger picture. The story of Israel these last 55 years, above all,…
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Opinion Saudi Schools Keep Sowing Seeds of Hate
Meeting with leaders of the American Jewish Committee in New York last September, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal acknowledged a problem with his country’s schoolbooks, and he assured us that steps would be taken to rewrite them. He asserted, as he has in interviews with American media, that the problematic passages are limited to about…
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