Rabbi Michael Graetz offers a provocative suggestion: Masorti must form a political party. This is a bad idea on two counts: first, it would put the Masorti movement into the sick bed of political parties in Israel—political institutions whose existential crisis is a major component of the dysfunctions of the Israeli political system; and second,
Finally, it is interesting to speculate how this reads from a Palestinian perspective. Brimmer seems to imply that not only can the Palestinian initiative succeed in delivering its primary goal of a propaganda victory with possible international legal ramifications. It could provoke a congressional response that will further weaken the U.S. in Turtle Bay and
Will the Turkel Commission Report help Israel make its case to the world? If the Palmer Commission endorses its fundamental findings, that the occupation is over and the blockade is necessary, proportionate and legal, Israel’s actions enforcing it will be vindicated in the eyes of many. However, if the Palmer Commission finds that the occupation
The Israeli Knesset designated Jerusalem Day as a national holiday in 1968. It falls on the 28th day of the Hebrew month of Iyar, the anniversary of the day the State of Israel proclaimed the reunification of the city in 1967. This year the Hebrew date fell on June 1. The occasion calls for some reflections
An Israeli-owned company sells an oil tanker to Iran Lenin reportedly said of capitalists that they “will sell us the rope with which to hang them.” Israel seems to have encountered a contemporary version of this trope with the announcement by the U.S. State Department that it is placing sanctions on a large Israeli company,
