Leonard Fein
By Leonard Fein
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Opinion What If the Conflict Went to Arbitration?
This is not the most propitious week in which to propose the exercise I am about to recommend, but when dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict, waiting for the stars to align is pointless. This week’s particular misalignment? The remarks of a delusional man named Nizar Rayyam, a spokesman for Hamas: “We will never recognize Israel….
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Opinion Instruments of Their Own Discord
This is not the column I meant to write this week, not with the world falling apart. But I am driven to write as I do by a passing paragraph in a New York Times review of a performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. I’ll get to that review and what it suggests about Israel…
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Opinion Some Good News, Courtesy of the Young
Go tell it on the mountain: There’s good news this otherwise dismal winter. As Israel’s foreign minister (and deputy prime minister), Tzipi Livni, said at the biannual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, pretty much every approach to peace between Israel and the Palestinians has been tried — and has failed. There was…
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Opinion Not All Critics Are Our Enemies
The evident and growing antipathy toward Israel on America’s left, and on college campuses in particular, has become a fashion of our time. It is dispiriting even if no longer surprising; though reports of its extent are often exaggerated, it is real enough to be a legitimate concern. Now and then, it serves as cover…
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Opinion There Is No Place To Hide Iraq’s Slain
This war in Iraq, which began as a lie, now continues as an illusion. The bloody deception is long since revealed, the pathetic perjuries by now grown stale. Some of the experts and analysts say that with an increase of 100,000 troops, others perhaps 250,000 more, the country could be pacified. Interesting numbers, those: Take…
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Opinion Rebranding Israel Won’t Get Rid of Corruption
If, as the Democrats charged during the recent election campaign, the Republicans in Congress created “a culture of corruption,” what shall we say about the cultural climate in Israel? When God brought the flood, it was because He “saw how corrupt the earth was.” The Hebrew word for “corruption” is “shchitah”; from the same root,…
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Opinion An Annus Very Horribilis
Time magazine notwithstanding, I don’t believe I am “Man of the Year.” That is not an instance of false modesty, nor, for that matter, of true modesty. Just so we understand each other, I don’t believe you are “Person of the Year” either. That is just not how it works. I mean, what’s the use…
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Opinion There Is Virtue, President Carter, in Self-doubt
By now, many people have surely grown weary of the controversy over Jimmy Carter’s new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” And why not? At age 82, Carter remains a remarkably indefatigable salesman; his book tour included 101 news media events and the signing of more than 100,000 copies of his book. And as it winds…
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