Opinion

• Opinion

  Push Progress via Peace Process

  If ever there was the illusion in Europe that Islamist terrorism would never cross into European territory, the March bombings in Madrid forever put an end to this way of thinking. The very existence of Western democracies — never mind participation in the American alliance in Iraq — is reason enough for Islamist extremism to…

  By Georg Dick, and Joscha Schmierer, and Martin Eberts

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• Letters

  June 11, 2004

  Vilna Community Calls For Help With Chabad A June 4 article on the Lithuanian chief rabbinate misses the most important point of the current crisis (“Rabbinical Turf Fight in Lithuania Spills From Shul Onto Front Pages”). This is not just a turf fight between two rabbis, nor is it solely a struggle between Chabad and…

  Jun 11, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Shake Our Conflict With A Firm Hand

  A diplomatic round table on President Bush’s plan for regional reform President Bush is not the first to try his hand at changing the annoying nature of our region by adding to it a positively sounding prefix, as is the case with the “Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative” he was set to unveil…

  By Uri Dromi Jun 11, 2004 | 4 min read

Columnists View All

• Alyssa Katz Class assignment: Get to know your murdered Jewish neighbors

  

• Rob Eshman Liberal Zionists are under attack. A new book proves their work has never been more important

  

• Dan Perry How Israel became a country where teenagers murder each other in cold blood

  

• Emily Tamkin American Jews have a Hasan Piker problem. Solving it is going to hurt

  

• Jay Michaelson Epstein and Iran are an antisemitism mega-crisis. Here’s what Jewish organizations should do about it. 

  

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  Fight Terror Through Reform

  Support for reform and modernization in the Middle East and North Africa is not just a matter of promoting shared values or of ensuring basic human rights, crucial as both of those concerns are. It is also a matter of practical American interests. As President Bush declared: “When the entire region sees the promise of…

  By Alina Romanowski Jun 11, 2004 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  A Coalition Of the Eager

  We have long since learned to swallow hard as the Israelis persist in policies that are ill-conceived and ill-executed, policies that threaten the entire Zionist enterprise. There are so many of these that we try to ignore and even justify — targeted killings, “collateral damage,” a fence that is in part a wall and that…

  By Leonard Fein Jun 11, 2004 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Reagan

  Ronald Reagan was an outsize figure on the world stage in his day, and remains so even now, a decade and a half after he passed from the public eye. That much is clear from the national outpouring of emotion that greeted his death last week. Reagan was a people’s president. He personalized the presidency,…

  Jun 11, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Sharon Makes His Move

  The Israeli Cabinet vote last Sunday ratifying Prime Minister Sharon’s Gaza disengagement initiative appears likely to prove a watershed. Just about everybody but the most diehard skeptics now agrees that Sharon means business. He really intends to get out of Gaza and at least part of the West Bank. His willingness to roll over opponents…

  Jun 11, 2004 | 2 min read
• Letters

  June 4, 2004

  Zinni Retort Distorted A May 28 article about General Anthony Zinni’s interview on “60 Minutes” attributes to me comments that are inaccurate and distort my real views and concerns about the recent sharp increase in worldwide antisemitism (“Ex-Mideast Envoy Zinni Charges Neocons Pushed Iraq War To Benefit Israel”). The Anti-Defamation League reported in 2002 that…

  Jun 4, 2004 | 6 min read
• Opinion

  Equal Right… To Fight Hate

  For all the attention being paid to Abu Ghraib, there is a prisoner abuse scandal in the Middle East that has gotten scant attention in America. In Egypt, homosexuals have been arrested and tortured in a campaign against what the government calls “the globalization of perversion,” according to a recent Human Rights Watch report. The…

  By Kathleen Peratis Jun 4, 2004 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Bush’s Sausage

  Those who feared that President Bush had turned his back on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process can breathe easy. Whatever he may have been up to in the past, the man from Crawford is now back in the game, and to all appearances he’s playing to win. The result is a bit like sausage-making: The outcome…

  Jun 4, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Two Agencies, Three Opinions

  It’s the nature of political systems that differences of opinion and clashes of interest will darken the mood from time to time. Not to worry. It’s the normal give-and-take of robust debate that makes democracy work. One side wins, another side loses, and everyone is the better for the experience. That’s equally true in political…

  Jun 4, 2004 | 2 min read