JPost.com - Seth J. Frantzman Reporter

Honest broker

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:41:00 GMT

In 1823 the infant United States was asked to sign on to a treaty by the mighty British Empire.

Anti-Jewish text will shame the Church of Scotland

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:30:14 GMT

Terra Incognita: This is not the time of the Crusades; no church has a right to tell the Jews where they may live.

Institutionalized harassment of women

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:50:02 GMT

Despite understanding that sexual harassment is unacceptable, institutions seems to be living in the past.

Revealing secrets

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:43:05 GMT

Author and former MK Michael Bar-Zohar talks about the recent release in English of his book ‘Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service.’

A rare voice

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:45:47 GMT

Ben-Gurion University doctoral candidate and Jerusalem-based educator Amal Najami-Abu-Sif challenges Arab women to stand up for their rights, and for the State of Israel to focus on coexistence.

Zionism: Of the Jews, or for the Jews?

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:57:23 GMT

Terra Incognita: The way Israeli Zionist supporters abroad talk about the Haredi problem is like the way Americans once spoke of Manifest Destiny.

Peace in the Middle East?

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:12:23 GMT

Abrams’s tale is one that is mostly clear and lays out the various events in the Bush administration in an accessible manner.

Neo-colonialism and the failure of NGO culture

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:41:45 GMT

Terra Incognita: In mid-April Russian President Vladimir Putin accused NGOs in Russia of receiving $1 billion in foreign funding.

Coastal wanderings

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:03:58 GMT

Israel’s northern coast offers unique opportunities for exploring, camping and hiking.

Terra incognita: The haredim and Yom Hashoah

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:47:57 GMT

Media "excoriate" haredim with reports of "desecration" on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Setting the record straight

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:29:50 GMT

Jonathan Kirsch sets out to provide the first biography of Herschel Grynszpan, who committed an important act, but to whom history has been so unjust

Terra Incognita: Europe’s shame

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:03:24 GMT

The story of the “Jew in the box” is representative of the circumscribed life that Jews are asked to live in Europe.

Terra Incognita: Preaching to Israel’s converted

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:41:36 GMT

When a heckler interrupted Obama’s speech many people assumed it was a “free Pollard” protester.

Walks in the woods

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:10:13 GMT

Anat Madmony's 'Israel's Forest Book' offers 40 scenic tours

The triumph of monoculturalism in the Middle East

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:15:34 GMT

Terra Incognita: In 1948 there were 250,000 Jews in Morocco. Today there are less than 4,000.

Terra Incognita: What Hugo Chavez teaches us

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:13:39 GMT

Why did Chavez, who gave so little respect to anyone in life, deserve respect from the international community in death?

Negotiating the Negev

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:47:10 GMT

This study of the state's attitude toward Beduin land claim falls short

TERRA INCOGNITA: Segregating fact and fiction

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:58:34 GMT

Every single story about the “segregated Palestinian only” bus lines was based on ignorance of the actual situation.

Books: Fighting convention

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:27:39 GMT

‘Invisible Armies’ presents a tour-de-force history of guerrilla warfare, starting in 2400 BCE Mesopotamia and taking the reader through the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

A brave fighter

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:09:55 GMT

Surika Braverman, the last of the Jewish parachutists from the Yishuv and part of a mission to aid the Jews of Europe died last month, but her legacy lives on

Terra Incognita: Intelligence services and the ‘other’

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:48:52 GMT

When an organization in society is above reproach, above civilian critique or investigation, then that in itself represents a problem.

Terra Incognita: Socialism and nepotism

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:54:48 GMT

In Israel this is a serious problem. Every few months there are allegations that someone received a position due to connections.

Terra Incognita: Israel’s burden of inequalities

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:45:00 GMT

The country shouldn’t send people to the army just for the sake of "schadenfreude."

Self-fulfilling textbook prophecy

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:44:59 GMT

Terra Incognita: A university professor who believes Israel created Hamas and argues that it is a victim of dehumanization by Israel, rather than the other way around, was supposed to provide an unbiased opinion on Israeli textbooks?

Israel’s segregated ‘acceptance committee’ society

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:34:18 GMT

In Sderot seventy percent of the people voted for right-wing and religious parties and only 1% voted Meretz and 3% Labor.

Terra Incognita: Free speech and managed democracy

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:30:01 GMT

A more level-headed policy would include clear rules on what constitutes incitement to racism and should be stricken from election materials.

A traditional socialist Zionist tale

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:31:07 GMT

Anita Shapira provides a much-needed social history of Israel, but fails to give a nuanced version of the challenges involved in absorbing immigrants from diverse cultures.

Terra Incognita: The CIA’s jihad against ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:29:50 GMT

It isn’t every day that members of the US Senate seek to interfere in a Hollywood production or other work of art.

Views from the Left

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:30:18 GMT

A Eurocentric critique of the Jewish relationship with the Land of Israel and a wake-up call to those who claim that Israel is a liberal democracy.

Terra Incognita: The return of the Khazar myth

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:07:29 GMT

Due to an obsessive interest in the “true” origins of the Jewish people, all sorts of scientific norms are discarded in favor of embracing any wild theory.

Speaking freely

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:08:01 GMT

Salman Rushdie’s long-anticipated memoir fails to separate the wheat from the chaff in relating his years in hiding.

Terra Incognita: Whose Israel is it?

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 03:20:57 GMT

The tragedy of Israel is that it was not founded on inclusion. Despite voices to the contrary, inclusiveness has never been a national priority or value.

Books: What makes them tick?

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:57:55 GMT

Anat Berko interviewed many people for her fascinating and original book, 'The Smarter Bomb,' on female suicide bombers.

Terra Incognita: Liberating the Wall from whom?

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:20:27 GMT

The Kotel should not be home to religious fanaticism. There should not come a day when only the “right” kind of Orthodox women can go to the holy site.

Books: Rediscovering Begin

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:09:48 GMT

Avi Shilon’s book is a welcome addition to the paucity of literature about the country’s sixth prime minister.

Terra Incognita: From 'The Hobbit' to Howard Roark

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:42:28 GMT

Baggins and Roark could not have confronted terrorism and the dull, valueless post-modernist critique.

Cult of post-political responsibility

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:31:37 GMT

Terra Incognita: This culture of post-political criticism and irresponsibility has bred a sanctimonious crescendo of righteous indignation, mainly voiced abroad, the actual purpose of which is simply to coddle the egos of the former political elite.

An unexpected direction?

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:22:27 GMT

Robert Wistrich lends his pen to an extraordinarily interesting and complicated topic: how and why the European Left has been anti-Jewish.

Terra Incognita: Coexistence of the blind

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:02:35 GMT

In Israel almost every person who talks about coexistence presents a false and ill-conceived plan whose results will produce no change whatsoever.

Commentary on the Commentary: Editing during wartime

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:31:35 GMT

What can an op-ed editor do during wartime? Naturally the paper must cover the war, but it must also tread carefully between being a war-monger and making naïve calls for “peace."

Political intrigue and military maneuvers

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:49:55 GMT

'Barack Obama pulled the US army out of Iraq, but George W. Bush set the stage.'

Hamas moderates and Israel’s celebrities

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:23:28 GMT

Another outcome of this round of fighting has been the need of the Israeli Left to find a reason to critique the operation.

Reporter's Notebook: Sirens and silence

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:21:34 GMT

Residents of the South seek to go about their lives with morose determination.

Politics obscures history

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:38:55 GMT

Zochrot's tour guide of Arab villages abandoned in 1948 provides selective information about the sits it covers.

Terra Incognita: The neo-pilgrim of Palestine

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:33:24 GMT

The modern pilgrim to the Middle East carves out a pilgrimage trail – in order to present the story of Palestinians to the western world.

Commentary on the Commentary: Dropcap politics

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:23:34 GMT

The history of the ‘drop cap,’ the large letter at the beginning of a news story sheds light on our political differences.

Terra Incognita: Racism against Jewish immigrants

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:49:48 GMT

If the parties can’t self-diversify and represent all the groups that vote for them, this is a fundamental problem, particularly harmful to Ethiopians.

Commentary on Commentary: Waiting for Godot at the polls

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:35:45 GMT

Working in the media during election season can feel like a scene from Waiting for Godot; there is an endless sense of waiting, of moving on a train inexorably towards some destination.

Into the jungle

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:45:00 GMT

As the right merges, Yair Shamir enters politics as a top figure in Yisrael Beytenu.

‘Homeland,’ the Jews and Columbia University

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:39:06 GMT

Terra Incognita: In an inflammatory article, Columbia University academic Joseph Massad writes, "on the first season of the show, cross-racial romance seems to have also infected the character of a white rich American woman."

Commentary on the Commentary: Army music

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:31:00 GMT

Army Radio was criticized for barring a live performance by a singer who had written a song accusing soldiers of being brutish.

Terra Incognita: The media and war crimes

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:09:32 GMT

The pilot does not immediately strike us as a sympathetic character, but his treatment by Al Jazeera is indicative of the moral and ethical blinders that the media has, for too long, tolerated.

Commentary on the Commentary: Unpublished op-eds

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 21:04:44 GMT

Some op-eds are easy to reject, but others are interesting, deserving of consideration, and yet do not make it.

SEALing the deal

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:40:56 GMT

An inside view of the raid that killed master terrorist Osama bin Laden.

Social activism in Israel: A cult of personality

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:11:56 GMT

Terra Incognita: Too many Israeli human rights or social causes boil down to a cult of personality.

Commentary on the commentary: The Holidays are over

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:42:22 GMT

Iranian threat vanishes from radar as elections take center stage.

Books: Welcome to the Promised Land

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:36:13 GMT

Eyal Chowers struggles with the ideology behind the creation of the Jewish state.

Terra Incognita: A little pogrom in Bangladesh

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:13:42 GMT

The Western press was quite concerned about not reporting about the destruction of Hindu temples in Pakistan and burning of Buddhist temples in Bangladesh. After all, mentioning how fanaticism actually results in attacks on religious minorities might make the Barack/Clinton appeasement broadcast seem foolish.

Dayan the peace-maker?

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:28:13 GMT

Mordechai Bar-On provides a concise biography of the life of the former chief of staff, but he doesn’t go deep enough.

Terra Incognita: Next year, think differently

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:21:05 GMT

A new year means a clean slate and a clear mind, and of course learning from last year's mistakes.

Terra Incognita: Disgrace, tragedy at US embassy in Cairo

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:09:34 GMT

Just because someone is offended does not mean freedom of speech has been “abused,” it certainly isn't “abused” by critiques of religion.

Commentary on the commentary: From Washington to Tehran

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:18:09 GMT

Is there no voice that thinks the Americans are not a key ally or that the US needs to be more forthright when the issue is Iran?

Misguided optimism

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:28:34 GMT

The Islamification of Middle Eastern governments was helped along by the White House and the State Department, writes Ruthie Blum.

Terra Incognita: The re-Islamification of Beersheba

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:13:16 GMT

The manufactured controversy over a wine festival is part of increasingly chauvinistic power politics sweeping the Negev’s Beduin community.

Commentary on the Commentary: On Jewish anti-Isrealism

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:40:55 GMT

The strange phenomenon of Jewish anti-Israelism often haunts those who support Israel. Why are Israel's most rabid critics Jewish?

Books: His own history

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:32:54 GMT

Bernard Lewis talks about the polarization of Middle East Studies departments, political correctness and Islamism, and the importance of understanding primary sources.

Boeotia in Palestine: The war for Area C

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:09:09 GMT

Terra Incognita: Area C has to be understood as the last part of this unsettled dispute between Israel and the Palestinians.

Commentary on the Commentary: Internal, external conflicts

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 11:44:18 GMT

Frantzman discusses the divide in Israel between domestic and regional problems.

Drawing on experience?

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:02:36 GMT

Two new graphic volumes depict life in Israel - but one provides a sketchy picture.

Terra Incognita: Freedom and spectacle

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:18:08 GMT

Would protesters in balaclavas be allowed to break into the Washington National Cathedral to put on a rock concert?

Commentary on the Commentary: Power of perspective

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:51:04 GMT

Frantzman discusses how the JPost avoids a common journalistic pitfall by doing more than just stating the obvious.

Ban Ki-moon should not attend Tehran conference

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:55:46 GMT

The Secretary General of the UN should not enable and lend credence to this charade by attending the summit.

Commentary on the Commentary: Iran war talk

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:59:28 GMT

There is a very real need to confront anti-Israel activism in the gay community, showing Israel to be a positive place for everyone.

Terra Incognita: Why MEMRI matters

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:11:44 GMT

In a perfect world, it would be best to have at our fingertips translations of every article that appears in the foreign press.

Commentary on the Commentary: Romney in Israel

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 17:23:13 GMT

Republican US presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s trip to Israel dominated both headlines and opinion pages.

War and peace, Israeli style

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:54:02 GMT

A welcome account of two decades of Israel’s involvement in negotiations.

Terra Incognita: All quiet in the Golan?

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:59:46 GMT

Temperatures are rising due to events in Syria, as chaos rushes to fill the vacuum across the border.

Commentary on the Commentary: Ramadan and Tisha Be’av

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:39:30 GMT

JPost commentators struggle with the need to solemnify the important holidays amid a region with an overabundance of chaos.

Terra Incognita: Drowning in olive oil... prices

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:19:41 GMT

Because of government regulators and industry lobbyists, Israelis are paying among the highest prices in the world for olive oil, even though it is produced locally.

Commentary on the commentary: Howling over Olmert

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 12:06:56 GMT

The 'Post's op-ed editor wraps up the past week: From Olmert's acquittal to Iran’s genocidal ambitions.

Purposeful stupidity: Big government and bureaucracy

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:50:51 GMT

In 1944 William Donovan, the head of the OSS, signed off on an odd memo called the "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" which should be mandatory reading today for it encapsulates perfectly how not to carry out one’s job.

Commentary on the commentary: A big week

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:05:43 GMT

The 'Post's op-ed editor wraps up the past week in the opinion section.

Is Annan an accomplice to murder in Syria?

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:56:15 GMT

The appointment of Annan sent a clear message to Assad that a representative was being sent who would provide cover for increased repression.

Terra Incognita: The orientalist shield

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:57:27 GMT

Originally “orientalism” referred to the numerous applications of art, humanities that imitated, illustrated the “Orient.”

Shedding light on the underground

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:16:18 GMT

The Stern Group’s bravest acts – or its most dastardly ones – were carried out after its leader was shot in February 1942.

Terra Incognita: Battir-ing down the gates to UNESCO

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:35:32 GMT

With the Palestinians finally having a chance to suggest their own sites to UNESCO, it’s egregious that Battir was ever considered as their first choice.

Terra Incognita: You can’t sell Israeli liberalism

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:54:54 GMT

Israel’s negative image is not predicated on it not being Western enough, but rather on it being too western.

(In)justice system: Slavery in Israel

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:21:58 GMT

In early March, 2012, a Jerusalem district court issued its first conviction under a 2006 anti-slavery law.

Incitement U: Confronting hate at Israel’s academy

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:03:19 GMT

Terra Incognita: The degree to which academic discussions in Israel have become poisoned is shocking.

Rewriting history

Thu, 31 May 2012 12:56:39 GMT

How Muslim leaders have used al-Aksa, supposed threats to it to galvanize Arab street, encourage protests.

Occupation: The ‘oxygen’ of the peace lobby

Wed, 30 May 2012 22:43:48 GMT

Terra Incognita: In recent annual report, Amnesty International accused Israel of a laundry list of human rights violation.

Terra Incognita: The King’s peace

Wed, 23 May 2012 21:53:12 GMT

Monarchy has generally outlived tyranny precisely because they are two sides of the same Aristotelian model, one being a more perfect version of the other.

Terra Incognita: How racism crept into my neighborhood

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:33:36 GMT

African migrants are viewed through the prism of “victims”; their own racism is not usually acknowledged.

From one father to another

Thu, 03 May 2012 16:50:34 GMT

Benzion Netanyahu’s final book shows the reverence with which he holds Zionism’s architects.

Terra Incognita: Falling out of love with ‘Hatikva’

Tue, 01 May 2012 22:04:35 GMT

Why do people assume that changing a word here or there is what would bring the Israeli Arabs into the fold?

No added value

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:54:54 GMT

Peter Beinart presents no evidence that if Israel were to be more in line with the values of American Jews they would suddenly be interested in it.

Spring forth

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:05:40 GMT

The search for springs and the enjoyment of them is a popular subculture of Israeli society.

Terra Incognita: The Hunger Games

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:37:57 GMT

Placed in the impossible situation of subservience to totalitarianism, the individual’s duty is to struggle against it.

Hitler's soldier

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:23:03 GMT

In writing a biography of Heinrich Himmler, Peter Longerich sheds light on where the SS chief played a leading role.

Terra Incognita: National confusion

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:40:18 GMT

It is time for Israel’s media and courts to realize that terminology is bedeviling our ability to understand crime.

Terra Incognita: Victims of unoriginality

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:21:17 GMT

In making Jews feel guilty for having been persecuted and punishing them for mentioning it, one is erasing the history itself.

Terra Incognita: 'McCarthyism’ vs. free speech

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:49:05 GMT

The Israeli misuse of the word as a synonym for criticism has been seemingly due to an ignorance of historical record.

Terra Incognita: The crisis of critical Zionism

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:31:13 GMT

The Zionism of Israel is not synonymous with the Judaism of America.

A minority opinion?

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:58:01 GMT

Ilan Peleg and Dov Waxman’s study of Israeli Arabs makes some valuable claims, but some of the authors’ solutions are already long-standing government policies.

Terra Incognita: Galloway’s gaffe

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:05:42 GMT

Each dictator has his Western apologist, it would seem.

‘We are the shame of this country’

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:51:01 GMT

Having turned down the city’s offer of a NIS 2,200 monthly grant for the winter, the Ben-Davids are still living in Sacher Park along with six other families that are holding out for public housing.

Terra Incognita: Israel’s missing movies

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:47:38 GMT

Isn’t it time for Israel to find some characters from its past that are fit for the silver screen?

Terra Incognita: Hamas’s ‘Jerusalem 4’ down to 0

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:24:39 GMT

Are the four Hamas officials simply good bargaining chips for the long game?

Unguarded speech

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:14:50 GMT

Arab women from east Jerusalem are reporting a rise in inappropriate comments from Border Police at Jerusalem area checkpoints.

Not looking the other way

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:33:24 GMT

Kav L’Noar brings together two speakers to discuss the subject of confronting abuse in our communities.

Shame on the secular community

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:02:02 GMT

Time to expose the secular community’s hypocrisy with regards to sexual harassment.

Reviving Morgenthau’s memo

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:11:59 GMT

Israel wrestles with Jewish history and recognizing the Armenian genocide.

Terra Incognita: France’s shameful law

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:39:59 GMT

There is no justification for an unjust law that says the country can never extradite its citizens, no matter how harsh the crime.

Barbarians no longer at the gate

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:47:28 GMT

Steven Pinker, renowned intellectual, highlights list of participants at Shalem Center Conference.

Terra Incognita: Rethinking the global economy in 2012

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:56:12 GMT

The economic forecast for this year isn’t all bad, but there are definitely changes in the air.

Mass celebrations

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:33:34 GMT

The Old City comes alive for Christmas.

Terra Incognita: Un-original shooting

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:27:04 GMT

Photographer Fredric Brenner promised to portray Israel beyond the stereotypes in his latest project, but the artists have predictably created an orgy of clichés.

A shrine to intolerance

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:18:02 GMT

Because it has always been in a predominantly Jewish area, the Muslim compound that was defaced last week has suffered from tensions in the past.

Articulating dilemmas

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:58:31 GMT

Military and legal professionals have discussed the challenges the country faces.

Destructive policies?

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:43:35 GMT

With the Mugrabi Bridge closed briefly and Israel, Jordan and the Wakf yet to reach an agreement on an alternative structure, tensions are high.

Terra Incognita: Russian Israelis and the sacred cows

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:54:18 GMT

From the NGO funding law to the bill that would limit decibel levels for Muezzins, Russian Israelis view things differently than their native-born and Western-born countrymen.

Shouldering a cultural tradition

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:14:06 GMT

Ethiopian-Israel performances grace Jerusalem in the Second Annual Hullegeb Festival.

Libya turns the corner on international law

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:48:23 GMT

Human Rights organizations didn’t care too much about Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's abuses until he was arrested.

A Bible museum for the biblical city

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:36:02 GMT

Project to build a site for the Bible in Jerusalem due in the coming years.

An exhibition and a reunion

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:36:01 GMT

In many ways, the story of the Salomon family, on display at the Old Yishuv Court Museum, is that of the development and accomplishments of the Yishuv prior to 1948.

Defending Israel's sovereignty

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:28:29 GMT

Two bills have been accused of symbolizing a wave of undemocratic legislation.

Terra Incognita: Is the ‘elite’ being alienated in Israel?

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:56:46 GMT

The secret of left-wing disdain for the country is that it’s no longer in control.

Terra Incognita: Confronting Hannah Arendt

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:50:01 GMT

If the German-born theorist was a racist, collaborator with a leading Nazi intellectual and probably an anti-Semite, why were her work and ideas ever respected?

Rice to ‘Post’: Time for regime change in Tehran

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:45:11 GMT

Former US secretary of state says Iranians are seeking nuclear weapon and are a poster child for terror, supporting it abroad.

The Hasmoneans' forgotten castle

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:23:07 GMT

The Horkania fort is not readily accessible to the public and has absolutely no tourist infrastructure - which also makes it relatively untouched and free of charge.

'Hannah Arendt' in Jerusalem

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:21:44 GMT

A new film about the author attempts to tackle the controversy surrounding her while appreciating some of her philosophy.

Understanding hatred

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:19:53 GMT

A conference about incitement and anti-Semitism was intended as a jumping-off point to presenting a draft for a convention on combating incitement and violence to the UN.

Terra incognita: Misbehaving sciences?

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:42:04 GMT

In light of recent incitement by lecturers, it' s important to examine the freedom of expression and the “right” of academics to engage in extremist speech.

No laughing matter

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:15:08 GMT

Jason Alexander takes a tour of Sderot as part of a delegation from OneVoice, which calls for grass-roots action to make the two-state solution a reality.

Terra Incognita: Disgraceful behavior

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:53:37 GMT

The desecration of Sammy Ofer’s grave is but the latest in a shameful wave of hate directed at an Israeli success story.

Drinking in the atmosphere

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:51 GMT

Bottoms up! Bar culture comes to Jerusalem’s storied Mahaneh Yehuda Market.

Terra Incognita: Robert Ford’s heroic diplomacy

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:09:20 GMT

US envoy to Syria's personal investigation of abuses and his shows of support for protestors is a welcome sign.

Terra Incognita: The acceptance committee conundrum

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:37:30 GMT

It should not be legal for kibbutzim founded many years ago to be allowed to uphold an institution that is considered illegal in other communities that were founded more recently.

Tegart’s shadow

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:43:25 GMT

Sir Charles Tegart built 62 forts in British Mandate Palestine, many of which have had a long and storied impact on the country.

Sand cat on the prowl

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:43:25 GMT

The Border Police recently took delivery of 60 new five-ton jeeps to replace its aging fleet of locally armored Jeep Wranglers.

A life-saving experience

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:37:31 GMT

Magen David Adom has been running a program that allows foreigners to volunteer while learning life-saving skills.

Taybeh on tap

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:09:01 GMT

Palestinians enjoy a two-day festival of beer and street hockey in a small Christian village, but politics is never far away.

Terra Incognita: Disingenuous taxation

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:53:04 GMT

The ultra-wealthy in many countries are claiming that they want to be taxed more, but are they being serious?

Serving the community

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:19:53 GMT

Ichlu Reim, J'lem’s only soup kitchen open on Shabbat, holidays, has expanded but still struggles financially to feed a diverse populace.

Terra Incognita: Equal rights in the Negev for all Israelis

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:49:46 GMT

Beduins should not receive preferential treatment because of the government’s historic abandonment of the land.

Durban redux

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:40:23 GMT

Next week, activists and groups are planning to confront the UN’s Durban commemoration conference in New York, but some wonder how relevant it is.

The Palestinian position

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:37:06 GMT

A unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state will mean that even if it is declared as such, east Jerusalem will not be the capital of that entity.

Casting their votes

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:07 GMT

East Jerusalemites are in favor of a Palestinian state, but it is unclear whether they want to be a part of it.

A large disturbance in a small world

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:07 GMT

Revelations that a pedophile ring has been allegedly operating in Nahlaot have sent shock waves through the community.

The ‘Deuteronomistic’ school of Israeli political thought

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:51:33 GMT

Today’s Deuteronomists are not religious. They are secular intellectuals, journalists, scholars and television commentators.

Ten years on

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:03:25 GMT

A psychoanalyst has blended bland academic material with a compelling account of the lives of people affected by 9/11.

Cooperation as a science

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:11:09 GMT

Robert Krengel, the outgoing EU delegate to the scientific section, talks about Israel’s growing role in regional research.

Terra Incognita: Is Israel’s airport security ‘smart'?

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:54:40 GMT

Israel doesn’t actually profile terrorists – its security personnel simply categorize all Arabs as requiring more intensive scrutiny.

A cheap shot?

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:22:04 GMT

Despite numerous interviews the author conducted with Israelis, it seems he came away with, at best, a second- or third-hand account of the country’s history of fighting terrorism.

Employment opportunity

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:19:05 GMT

According to statistics, Israel’s Arab women are the worst off in the Middle East in terms of employment. Is something dreadfully wrong, or are the statistics not telling the whole story?

Terra Incognita: Not your father’s Middle East

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:01:56 GMT

Arab nationalism/monarchism, Islamism, scapegoating of the West are the pillars upon which the next era in the Middle East will be built.

Taken for a ride?

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:28:41 GMT

Commuters remain skeptical about the much-vaunted benefits of light rail travel, as Jerusalem’s new transit system is still beset by problems,

Angela Merkel, stand strong against Euro-bonds!

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:56:06 GMT

Europe’s stronger economies must keep the financial barbarians at bay.

A roll of the dice for local businesses

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:00:38 GMT

Entrepreneurs on Jaffa Road have mixed feelings about the opening of the light rail.

Danger signs?

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:59:47 GMT

The Jerusalem light rail is officially up and running, but one traffic safety organization is cautioning that it’s likely to be a bumpy ride until all the safety hazards are ironed out.

The Shah’s mixed legacy

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:45:52 GMT

A new biography explores why Mohammed Reza became such a polarizing figure in the West.

Terra Incognita: The boring Jewish state?

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:15 GMT

Why is there such a fear of taking Jews to see minorities of Israel? Why fear of them meeting Russians, Yemenites, Moroccans, Ethiopians?

The flavor of the month?

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:00:42 GMT

Ethiopian restaurants and stores are cropping up throughout the city. But it is unclear if the culture will integrate into the mainstream or be swallowed up as the young population assimilates

Ready to board

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:00:42 GMT

Local residents are unsure how to use the light rail, where to get tickets, and if it will help their daily commute

The coexistence conundrum

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:35:55 GMT

In this exploration of issues relating to Muslim-Jewish relations in America, the Muslim contributors are mostly orthodox, while the Jewish ones are progressive and self-critical.

Terra Incognita: Baseless hatred of the haredim

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:22:00 GMT

It is essential that people search their souls and ask why they acquiesce so easily to canards about the ultra-orthodox community and statements made against it.

Pushing the boundaries

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:30:31 GMT

The middle-class 'stroller protesters' claim their goals are more concrete and attainable than the more general, amorphous demands of the 'tent city' population.

Terra Incognita: Humbling Turkey’s military

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:24:38 GMT

Countries that rely too much on institutions to ensure their values will be let down.

Growing pains in Tel Aviv's tent city

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:13:26 GMT

A once-spontaneous, freedom-loving protest movement is discovering the need to confront reality

Holding participatory Zionist criticism to account

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:40:28 GMT

Terra Incognita: Some in the Israeli Left have selective amnesia when it comes to their own past actions.

Getting more bang for your Starbucks

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:40:43 GMT

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's account of how he turned the company around makes for compelling reading.

Mideast meets 'Westend'

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:03:53 GMT

The Museum on the Seam opens a new exhibition that examines the relations between the West and Islam.

Terra Incognita: Egypt’s other Sphinx: Zahi Hawass

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:55:31 GMT

With Hawass gone, following a Cabinet reshuffle, Egypt’s antiquities are bound to be in better hands.

A challenging voice from the Left?

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:21:12 GMT

Answering 'the loudest 8 percent' of American Jews, J Street founder Ben-Ami stresses Israel’s role in obstructing peace.

The art of the deal

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:53:33 GMT

The artists at Hutzot Hayotzer have overcome an eviction order – for now.

The foreign workers’ ‘Catch-22'

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:21:27 GMT

Rights and Responsibility: The migrant workers who choose to come to Israel are adults. It is time we started treating them as such.

Terra Incognita: Myth, reality and the electric car

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:06:58 GMT

An Israeli company pioneers electric car battery technology, but questions remain about the industry itself.

Terra Incognita: The Turkish enigma

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:31:37 GMT

The cancellation of the participation of the ‘Mavi Marmara’ in the Gaza flotilla and the mystery of what Turkey’s political elite is thinking.

A visible improvement?

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:29:07 GMT

In an unlikely bid, several art and cultural centers are trying to enhance east Jerusalem's cultural scene.

A question of the Palestinian dinar

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:54:07 GMT

Terra Incognita: What currency will the Palestinians use in the wake of their quest to seek recognition for a state in September?

Can we preserve the history, integrity of the Holocaust?

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:07:09 GMT

The Holocaust is “exploited for political or commercial gain,” engineered to “suit popular tastes and made into award-winning entertainments.”

Questioning her birthright

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:24:40 GMT

In her drawings and caricatures of American tourists and a few Israelis, the author has captured a very small slice of life.

Terra Incognita: A question of equality

Tue, 31 May 2011 23:10:08 GMT

Why the Knesset should pass the civil service bill giving job preference to those who have completed either military or national service.

Terra Incognita: 'Fiddler on the Roof’ in Dubai

Wed, 25 May 2011 05:42:30 GMT

One Arab woman’s attempt to bring critical thinking to the classroom.

Terra Incognita: Europe rediscovers its borders

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:47:16 GMT

The mass of people making their way to EU countries as a result of the Arab Spring has tested the wisdom of the EU’s Schengen Agreement.

A glimpse into Walter’s world

Thu, 05 May 2011 21:04:44 GMT

Walter Bingham, an Arutz Sheva radio host, has one goal at present – “to hold up a mirror to Israel and the rest of the Jewish world.”

Terra Incognita: Is Israel's justice system broken?

Tue, 03 May 2011 22:37:08 GMT

The Jewish state is not a country where one wants to be the victim of gratuitous violence.

Terra Incognita: The revolution wont' be democratic

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:57:25 GMT

There was never a second Arab Awakening as it was never bounded by ideas, not even the democratic-Islamic ones.

Terra Incognita: Good riddance to the Ford Foundation

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:18:08 GMT

Until Israeli NGOs can find a way to see past ethnicity, they don’t deserve funding – not from their society nor from abroad.

The other side of the tracks

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:24:19 GMT

Shuafat residents anticipate the launch of the light rail in their neighborhood with a mixture of excitement and indifference.

Terra Incognita: Sex, Islamism and the Old South

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:54:53 GMT

The relationship between conservative Muslim societies, slavery and prostitution is more common than one thinks.

‘The work doesn’t end here’

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:22:29 GMT

With the lull in terrorist attacks, many people have forgotten that the OneFamily Fund is still striving to maintain its commitments.

Terror threat

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:39:45 GMT

Hezbollah is gaining traction in Lebanon, but how much influence does the Party of God have in a region of 300 million Arabs?

Marwan Barghouti, Amos Oz, Haim Oron and a tale of darkness

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:47:13 GMT

Terra Incognita: The next time someone decides to invite Oz or Oron to speak, they shouldn’t waste time; they should cut to the chase and invite Barghouti himself.

Terra Incognita: A recipe for a big mess

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:43:58 GMT

The central problem with the intervention in Libya is the lack of a clear goal.

Power politicians

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:46:13 GMT

Setting out ‘to humanize, not idealize’ the Husayni family, Ilan Pappe ends up portraying them as a corrupt feudal dynasty.

Terra Incognita: Libya: Many collaborators, little romance

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:47:23 GMT

The long-running attachment West had to Gaddafi puts in perspective the subsequent lack of interest in rebels now fighting his tyranny.

Terra Incognita: A communal state of denial

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:11:06 GMT

Another day, another honor killing that goes unpunished.

Not on the same page

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:39:05 GMT

A timely compilation of Begin and Sadat’s correspondence reveals that their letters to each other were like ships crossing in the night.

Reclaiming Lifta

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:19:25 GMT

The fate of a desolate Arab village hangs in the balance.

Terra Incognita: Between 'we' and 'they'

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:21:00 GMT

Some here ascribe all sorts of fabricated evils to Israelis.

Terra Incognita: Careful what we wish for

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:16:54 GMT

Chaos has a much better track record of producing more tyranny and fascism, than it does democracy.

Terra Incognita: Deathly silence

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:11:32 GMT

The Western academy and tyranny in the Middle East.

‘Bring me the Jews of Ethiopia’

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:23:05 GMT

The fascinating story of the journey of Ethiopian Jews through Sudan is told in words and pictures.

The battle lines have been drawn

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:13:23 GMT

Residents of the Hutzot Hayotzer artists’ colony face eviction after 40 years of pioneering Judaica.

‘Myths’ about Islam

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:47:44 GMT

Two passionate defenses of Muslim society are nothing but a laundry list of apologies for every Islamic fanatic society, from Saudi Arabia’s gender apartheid to Iran.

Terra Incognita: Corporate world's new marketing strategy

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:11:09 GMT

There is something suspicious about how the new socially conscious ad campaigns play on our society’s stereotypical charitable views

Terra Incognita: Pre-Islamic but retained by Islam

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:32:22 GMT

From face veiling to female circumcision, many practices are said to have nothing to do with religion, but why, after 1,300 years, are they still practiced?

An underdocumented tragedy

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:28:56 GMT

The same hatred that fueled murder of Jews in the Holocaust was evident in the horrendous murders of second intifada, Giulio Meotti argues.

Sold out

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:23:49 GMT

A small Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem suddenly finds its future up in the air.

Terra Incognita: Bashir Gemayel’s long prediction

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:26:20 GMT

We blame extremists, but the truth is that the murder of minorities in the Mideast is integral to the fabric of the region.

Terra Incognita: Shifting the blame

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 03:48:32 GMT

Why does the ball of IDF responsibility increasingly roll downhill?

Terra Incognita: From beauty to brutalism

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:39:53 GMT

The rise and decline of architecture in Israel.

Politics gets in the way

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:37:21 GMT

A book that purports to be about the Arab relationship with the Holocaust is instead a gratuitous exercise in Israel-bashing.

Terra Incognita: Why Eli Yishai must not resign

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:51:48 GMT

His departure would add an injustice to the death and ruination the fire left behind. Leaving means walking out on responsibility, not owning up to it.

A risky business

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:37:17 GMT

Instead of detailing the Jewish ‘money’ stereotype, ADL director Abraham Foxman’s book counters myths about Jewish wealth.

Terra Incognita: Bloody coexistence

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:48:57 GMT

The bizarre horror and roots of the Kosovo organ-trafficking ring; almost all those involved were respected professionals in their communities.

Terra Incognita: The enigma of Iraq’s Tariq Aziz

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:10:44 GMT

Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister, charged with several crimes, may soon find himself at the end of a rope.

Nature and parks: Free market or free from the market?

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:22:05 GMT

Terra Incognita: Charging entrance fees to outsiders protects local quality of life.

Searching for Simon Wiesenthal

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:45:17 GMT

Tom Segev’s new biography is engaging but fails to capture the essence of the Nazi hunter.

Racism: The reality whose name we do not speak

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:38:03 GMT

Terra Incognita: Unless we address the truth about racist violence from both sides, it will only grow.

The US is fighting a blind man’s war on terror

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:07:53 GMT

Almost all the recent terror attacks on America have been carried out by people known to US intelligence.

Terra Incognita: The failure to secure home ownership

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:31:49 GMT

This was supposed to be a country of hope for the world’s Jews. But when it comes to buying a home, the Jewish citizens have little hope of obtaining this essential lifestyle.

Terra Incognita: The easiest scapegoat: The state

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:05:19 GMT

The state must create safety on the roads, deal with settlers, end lawlessness, and create equality at the same time. And who do you go to to actually solve these problems?

Terra Incognita: Pakistan’s state of denial

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:15:12 GMT

None of the current problems has anything to do with the US; all of them were "made in Pakistan."

An explosive issue

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:20:47 GMT

Sasha Polakow-Suransky has brought out an opportunistic book that plumbs the depths of the reasonably well-known relationship between South Africa and Israel.

Terra Incognita: Israel’s multiple democracies

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:38:01 GMT

Those who condemn the Israel of Likud, Shas and Israel Beiteinu for being undemocratic point to the pre-1967 days as the flowering of Western-German-Jewish democracy.

A bittersweet history

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:08:46 GMT

Martin Van Creveld chronicles the rise of modern Israel, the 20th century’s "greatest success story."

Terra incognita: Coexistence partners with ourselves?

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:18:20 GMT

Where are the billboards in Ramallah and Nablusshowing Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak asking the Palestinians to be Israel’s partners?

Terra Incognita: Neither Athens nor Sparta

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:24:13 GMT

Recent comparisons of Israel to these failed Greek city-states are sorely lacking.

Terra Incognita: Do as we say, not as we did

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:12:43 GMT

How many of those who support the Ariel cultural boycott live, even today, in homes or on lands that belonged to Arabs?

Missing links?

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:40:03 GMT

Iran and Turkey have long democratic traditions that are suited to a new US policy, writes Stephen Kinzer.

Terra Incognita: Anti-Zionism’s straw man

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:39:40 GMT

The Western champions of a return of the Jews to Israel are said to have ignored the local inhabitants.

Terra Incognita: Veiled nonsense

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:58:42 GMT

Why are some feminists labeling oppression as liberation?

The long road of death, massacre in Sinai

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:32:58 GMT

The Egyptian territory has become a human prison for African migrants.

Terra Incognita: The great dry up of 2010

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:27:27 GMT

The lack of available marijuana in Israel is leading many to grow their own, which could reduce money to illicit networks.

Wonderfully scripted propaganda

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:20:06 GMT

The entire saga of foreign worker children has been dominated by a carefully constructed tale that focuses the debate only on the kids.

Self-inflicted catastrophe

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:59:44 GMT

A rich account of '48 war and Arab flight.

Terra Incognita: Just the man for the job

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:14:18 GMT

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s background could place him in prime position to rid Africa of threat posed by Islamist militants in Somalia.

Terra Incognita: The great archeology debate

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:59:18 GMT

A persistent discussion about the politicization of Israeli archeology.

A Bird’s-eye view of the Middle East

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:55:03 GMT

The story Kai Bird weaves of growing up in this region as the son of a career diplomat is both fascinating and disturbing.

Terra Incognita: Ambassadors without borders

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:16:40 GMT

The British, in particular, have had a long spate of biased and strange political representatives in the Middle East.

Terra Incognita: When only the critics are heard

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:27:11 GMT

That there is so much focus on the Holy Land is a fact of life. The trouble is that the narrative of Israel is being communicated by those who dislike it.

The enigmatic march of democracy

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:09:10 GMT

It succeeds in the most obscure places and fails in the most promising ones.

Who’s misunderstanding Kyrgyzstan’s problems?

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:55 GMT

The tragedy unfolding in Central Asia was quickly misunderstood and twisted for an audience that seeks seemingly deep but actually simplistic explanations.

Terra Incognita: Nationalism by proxy

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:36:59 GMT

A private Christian school system educates the Arab, mostly Muslim, elite in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict saves lives

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:16:30 GMT

All governments, except the US, a few African countries and tiny Polynesian nations, use Israel as a way to distract their people from issues at home. Israel provides catharsis for local problems.

Terra Incognita: Sex, the city and the truth about Dubai

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:24:18 GMT

The movie’s decision to use the Emirates as a background betrays the degree to which Westerners turn a blind eye to human rights violations in the region.

Terra Incognita: ‘Mayanot’ nation

Wed, 26 May 2010 15:50:51 GMT

Over the past two decades, an interesting subculture around springs has grown here and has been primarily developed by religious Zionist youth.

Crash course

Fri, 21 May 2010 22:57:09 GMT

This comprehensive account of what befell the financial system in 2008 is fit for the silver screen.

Terra Incognita: A question of land

Thu, 20 May 2010 04:47:47 GMT

The government, despite excellent management of national parks, has disastrously mismanaged the Negev, turning it over de facto to the Beduin while restricting the ability of Jews to build on it.

The dangers to information in today’s age

Tue, 11 May 2010 21:24:02 GMT

Modern technologies are being used to ‘preserve’ information only to result in the disappearance of the resources themselves.

Terra Incognita: Israel’s democracy wars

Tue, 04 May 2010 20:27:47 GMT

Why is it assumed that the doyens of Israeli academia are necessarily democratic and good judges of the country’s democratic character?

Primakov’s primer

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:39:51 GMT

The insights ‘Russia and the Arabs’ provides are both prosaic and mostly well known – and aligned with the government’s own views.

Punishing success: What Goldman Sachs says about us

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:21:05 GMT

Learning from mistakes and building wealth should be goals in the wake of the recession.

Genocide, universalism and the degradation of memory

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:51:49 GMT

The attempt to de-Judaize the Holocaust is quite shocking

Terra Incognita: From Nataf to J'lem

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:44:21 GMT

It's hypocritical that Jewish Sheikh Jarrah protesters retire to homes built on former Arab land.

Terra Incognita: Not too shabby

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:44:41 GMT

For all the noise about discrimination against Muslims and Arabs in the US after September 11, there has been little discussion of their success there.

Terra Incognita: McCarthyism!

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:09:04 GMT

For all the hysteria, no government is behind the "campaigns against groups and people on the Left."

Saudi Arabia’s ‘reform’ offensive

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:28:39 GMT

The kingdom presents ‘reform’ by being so extreme, anything seems like progress.

Whitewashing genocide the easy way

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:20:33 GMT

How easy would it be to rewrite the history of the Shoah?

The struggle for Ethiopian Jewry's soul

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:34:32 GMT

Ethiopian-Israeli journalist tries to wash the community’s dirty laundry.

Moses in the homeland

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:45:54 GMT

An enlightening biography of Sir Moses Montefiore, whose philanthropic efforts widely benefited Jews in London and Jerusalem – and even Muslims in Morocco.

An ethnocracy or multiethnic democracy?

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:34:37 GMT

One of the newest code words for condemning Israel is describing the state as an “ethnocracy.”

Terra Incognita: The European lobby in Israel

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:58:35 GMT

The EU, realizing it cannot get Israel to change its laws through diplomatic means, has resorted to creating an internal lobby - through lavish funding of NGOs - to get Israel to bend.

The failure of Israel’s Arab MKs

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:18:22 GMT

They have gone from being close advisers to government coalitions to raving, angry extremists.

Terra Incognita: Demagoguery at its finest

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:44:52 GMT

The controversy surrounding Jerusalem’s Mamilla cemetery exposes the unfortunate hypocrisy of the project’s loudest opponents.

False progressives in the Muslim world

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:48:05 GMT

Litmus test for 'progressive Muslim' is how his sister and daughter are expected to behave.

Terra Incognita: False progressives in the Muslim world

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:44:04 GMT

The litmus test for the supposedly progressive Muslim is how his sister and daughter are expected to behave.

The next founders or shots in the dark?

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:27:52 GMT

A portrait of seven Middle Eastern pro-democracy activists.

Who's to blame? Perhaps they are

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:41:02 GMT

Radicalism, terrorism and war are organic and authentic societal developments.

Terra Incognita: A clash of cultures or ideologies?

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:09:38 GMT

Although many have written about US involvement in the ME, few have realized that the eruption of Wahhabism and the founding of America were contemporary events.