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Why are we so obsessed with John Demjanjuk?
On Tuesday, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum released a photo of Sobibor guards that purports to reveal Nazi collaborator John Demjanjuk in a guard uniform at the Sobibor Death Camp. German historian Martin Clippers said the museum used the German police to conduct a biometric examination to affirm it was Demjanjuk. I have seen…
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Opinion Trump’s peace plan didn’t kill the two-state solution. It was already dead.
After years of waiting, numerous delays, endless speculation and a lot of hype, the Trump administration’s much-anticipated peace plan for Israel and Palestinewas finally unveiled Tuesday. Predictably, it was greeted with very mixed reactions. Prime Minister Netanyahu, desperate to distract domestic attention from his multiple criminal indictments for corruption, effusively praised the plan, while President…
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Opinion Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ is a death sentence for Palestinian hope
I have lived my whole life under the Israeli occupation. I was born under occupation, went to school and university under occupation, and became a surgeon under the occupation. The occupation is a cruel reality that permeates every corner of our physical and psychological beings. For so many years, I was genuinely hopeful that it…
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Opinion American Jews must defend the two-state solution – before Democrats accept that Trump destroyed it.
On Tuesday, the Trump administration released its long-trumpeted “deal of the century” to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The plan, which can be read in full here, does what no American presidency has done before: It provides specific American terms for borders, refugees, and Jerusalem, along with other contentious issues like the status of Gaza, prisoners…
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Opinion This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a declaration of victory over us Palestinians
On Tuesday at noon, after three years of meaningless suspense, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided what the fate of the Palestinians would be in a room bereft of a single Palestinian. Drawing on the “tragic” conditions that Palestinians have to live under and the economic largess Palestinians would supposedly enjoy should…
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Opinion I moved to Israel with hopes of peace. Trump’s plan is the nail in that coffin.
Throughout President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements announcing a peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, symbolic words like “peace,” “hope” “dignity” “fair” and “historic” rang in my ears. The President said it was “time for this sad chapter of history to end,” and “we must break free of yesterday’s failed approaches.” And…
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Opinion Donald Trump, the destroyer
Trump has an uncanny knack for destroying what he does not like
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Opinion Don’t ask if Trump’s plan ends the occupation – ask if it shrinks it
Trump’s forthcoming peace plan for Israel and Palestine will not look like what you expect a peace plan to look like. There will be no handshake in the White House Rose Garden, at least not between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. There will be no flowery words about turning swords into ploughshares, and no promise of…
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Opinion What the Torah can teach us about Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month this February
February is Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month. On Feb. 4, several hundred people will gather on Capitol Hill for the 10th annual Jewish Disability Advocacy Day. Jews across the religious spectrum — Reconstructionist, Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox — will gather to create a more just and compassionate world and to advance our values, beginning…
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Opinion The goal of Trump’s ‘peace deal’ has always been to get us Palestinians to reject it
After three years of constant procrastination, President Trump’s Middle East team suddenly announced this week they were ready to reveal their “peace proposal” by Tuesday. The plan, which is reported to greenlight major Israeli annexations in the West Bank, is viewed by most analysts as a clear political stunt, an attempt to boost Netanyahu’s chances…
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Opinion Trump’s ‘peace plan’ forces Americans to choose: a Jewish state or a democratic one?
This week, President Trump invited Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his chief political rival, Kachol Lavan leader Benny Gantz, to come to the White House next week for the release of his administration’s long-awaited Israel-Palestine plan. This “peace plan” (and I use the term loosely) promises to accelerate a long-delayed reckoning with what it means…
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