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Opinion Why Jewish Terror Is Different This Time
Israel was stunned last week by a pair of violent attacks, both apparently perpetrated by Jewish extremists, just hours apart, that seemed to suggest a country teetering on a precipice, threatened with a wave of Jewish religious violence. It may indeed be on that precipice, but not in the way it appears at first glance….
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Letters Appeal to Authority
Among the most potent logical fallacies available to the polemicist is the “appeal to authority,” by which one attempts to suggest that the opinion of an expert on a question within the general area of his expertise must be correct. An “appeal to authority” is at the heart of J.J. Goldberg’s column “Israel Security Establishment…
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Opinion Negotiator Breaks Down Science of Iran Nuclear Deal
The Forward urged readers in to be “productive, reasoned, thoughtful, appropriately skeptical, [and] engaged” in deciding to support or oppose the Iran nuclear agreement concluded in Vienna — and to take seriously concerns that this might increase the threat to Israel. But it also acknowledged that the status quo is unacceptable, and that readers should…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Military Censor Calls for New Openness
Sima Vaknin-Gill may be Israel’s last chief military censor. And she makes no secret of welcoming that. After 10 years in a role that stirs frequent annoyance and occasional dread among journalists, Vaknin-Gill wants her office, which dates back to the country’s wartime founding, replaced with a streamlined civilian agency more in sync with contemporary…
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Fast Forward Israeli Diplomat Warns American Jews Split on Iran Deal in Secret Cable
A top Israeli diplomat in the United States wrote his superiors to warn that they cannot count on the U.S. Jewish community to oppose the Iran nuclear deal. “At this crucial point of the Iranian issue – which for years has been at the core of Israeli foreign policy and was described countless times by…
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Opinion Gaza Was Like Home — But I Supported Disengagement Anyway
I first became acquainted with the Jewish settlements of Gaza during my Israeli army service in 2002. This was during the second Intifada and my parents, living in New Jersey and unable to call me due to their deafness, were extremely worried about me. To calm them, when I had a free moment, I’d walk…
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Culture We See Your Israeli Gillette Ad, And Raise You 14 Jewish Beards
Movember may be months away but the latest facial hair viral video is already here, courtesy of a Gillette campaign in Israel. With over a million views, the ad follows an Israeli man who shaves his beard after 14 years. Barely recognized by his father, he then gives a beardless surprise to his wife and…
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Fast Forward Amnesty Says Israel Response to Soldier’s Gaza Capture Was War Crime
The response of Israel’s military to the capture of an Israeli soldier during last summer’s Gaza conflict amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said in a new report. Following the capture into a terror tunnel of Lt. Hadar Goldin, who later was declared dead based on evidence at the scene of…
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