Tag / Israel
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Rivers, Free Cities, And Condominiums
In some parts of the world you can be in two countries simultaneously. The section of the Moselle river that follows much of the border between Luxembourg and Germany isn’t owned by either country, nor is it divided along the middle—instead it is shared by both sovereign nations. The border is more of a permeable…
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The Middle East In The 2020s
As the Middle East enters the last year of this decade, it has completed what could be the worst epoch in its history. Oxford Professor Eugene Rogan, in The Arabs: A History, talks about the feeling of humiliation present in the Arab world following a series of events. The defeat of Iraq in the First…
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Segregation In The West Bank: The Case of Hebron
The lively marketplace of Hebron resembles the souqs of other Palestinian cities, with people crowding the narrow streets, stands selling shawarma and falafel every twenty feet, kids running around, and friends meeting for tea and argeelah in cafes. You would think you were in the old city of Nablus or even some parts of Ramallah—until…
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The Resistance?
The “resistance,” a movement ignited by the election of Trump, is for the most part Democratic, although it attracts varying degrees of Republican solidarity on certain issues. Although one might expect such a movement to resist Trump from the left, far too often it appears that the “resistance” is content to either assist in the…
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Twelve Too Many
On May 14, the Gaza protests hit fever pitch as the United States opened its new embassy compound in Jeruslaem. Israeli security forces killed 62 people during a Palestinian attempt to storm the fences. A Hamas spokesperson confirmed later that 50 of those victims were members of Hamas, which is internationally recognized as a terrorist…
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We Cannot Permit Israeli Injustice
March 30th, 1976 is a day remembered by Palestinians as Land Day. That day marked one of the first significant mass demonstrations by Palestinians of national unity and opposition to Israeli policies. The point of contention at the time was a recent formal declaration by the Israeli government that it would expropriate lands in the…
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I Support Israel. The Jerusalem Capital Declaration Was Wrong
Trump’s December announcement that the U.S. would move its embassy to Jerusalem and recognize the city as Israel’s official capital reversed decades of U.S. policy and has yielded more questions than answers. Even though the administration still claims to value the possibility of a two-state solution, this declaration is a clear statement of one-sided support.…
