Oren Rawls
By Oren Rawls
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Opinion The Silence in Cairo Can Be Heard in New York
Last month two Egyptians who normally wouldn’t cross paths — one a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s young guard, the other an outspoken liberal expatriate journalist — found a surprising bit of common ground on the Forward’s opinion page. I was proud to have been involved in the affair. After all, it’s not everyday that…
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News Polish Museum Draws Scant Protest
On Tuesday, a “Who’s Who” of American Jewish philanthropists joined Polish President Lech Kaczynski in Warsaw to break ground on the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, an institution being billed as a foundation on which to rebuild understanding between Poles and Jews. The scene would have been hard to imagine just a generation…
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Opinion Time To Talk Detente With Tehran
Fact is, Iran is sitting in a rather good position right now, and we did a whole lot to put it there. We took the Taliban off of Iran’s eastern border, then got rid of Saddam Hussein to its west. Whether we were justified in doing so is beside the point: We gave Tehran the…
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News Disengagement’s Architect Outlines West Bank Pullout
Ariel Sharon’s sudden exit from the political stage has raised serious questions about the future of Israel’s strategy of unilateral separation from the Palestinians. For answers, the Forward turned to the man who, perhaps more than any other, can claim to be the architect of unilateral disengagement, retired major general Uzi Dayan. Dayan, a former…
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News Manhunt for ‘Last Nazi’: A Story Of New Leads or Misled Media?
The 91-year-old Heim was believed to be living out his final years on the Spanish island of Ibiza
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News Neo-Nazi Brotherhoods Gain Influence
BERLIN — Less than 24 hours had passed since Thorsten Heise and his fellow neo-Nazis were forced to call off their planned show of force here last week. Their failed efforts on the 60th anniversary of the fall of the Third Reich were being celebrated in local papers, under banner headlines such as “A Red-letter…
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Israel News In Romania, Preparing for the Future by Facing the Past
VIENNA — At 36, Mihai Razvan Ungureanu is something of a diplomatic wunderkind. Appointed in late December 2004 as foreign minister of Romania, Ungureanu has been tasked with leading the country’s international affairs during the most critical juncture in its post-communist history. On April 25, Romania is set to sign the European Union accession treaty,…
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News Media Shows Arab Street Still Seethes About Israel
VIENNA — For those banking on democratization to reduce Arab hostility toward Israel, the recent public uprising in Lebanon and the Iraqi and Palestinian elections signaled a societal shift. Freedom is on the march in the Arab street, in this view; greater acceptance of the Jewish state would not be long in coming. But those…
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