Tag / Netanyahu
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Israel, Where Has Your Zionism Gone?
It is difficult to be considered a true patriot in modern Israel. Zionism, a belief in building a Jewish nation-state in the Land of Israel, was used as a basis for the state’s establishment. While that may have been the purpose of the word in the past, many conversations with young Israelis have led me…
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WUPR Debrief – 2015 Israeli Elections
WUPR Debrief is a panel discussion and breakdown of local, national, or international news. Joe Lenoff is the host, and he is joined by a revolving panel of other WU students. This episode focuses on the 2015 Israeli parliamentary elections.
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Where Krauthammer Went Wrong: An Appeal to Nuance
In the past week, the U.S. Congress has made two unprecedented interventions into U.S. foreign policy. First, Speaker John Boehner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, arranged for PM Netanyahu to speak before the U.S. Congress on March 3, 2015 and argue his case against current negotiations…
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For the Sake of Jingoism
BY ARI SPITZER Amidst photos friends had posted, and articles about the FIFA World Cup that populated my newsfeed, a headline appeared: “Search for Israeli Teenagers Ends in Tragedy.” Slowly but surely with each refresh, the headline and others like it pervaded my social networks. Three yeshiva students in Israel, Gilad Sha’ar, 16, Eyal Yifrah,…
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Borders, Danger, and Human Rights: Israel’s Dynamic Role in Tumultuous Times
BY MEYTAL CHERNOFF The past few years have seen large-scale changes in the Middle East. In particular, escalated violence in Syria has forced the world’s eyes toward the region and raised the issues of alliances, human rights, and the potential for the conflict to spread beyond Syrian borders. The state of Israel sits in the…
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Attack Iran
Much to the dismay of the European Union, the United States and Israel, Iran has been aggressively pursuing a nuclear energy program. Iran has consistently claimed that it wants nuclear power for the peaceful purposes of providing domestic energy. Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is reticent to believe this because Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has…
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Civilian-Civilian Relations
Earlier this semester, WUPR published an article in which the author spoke at length about the importance of civilian-military relations. The state of the military at large, the author argued, stands to be wholly compromised by antics like those on display in General Stanley McChrystal’s now infamous Rolling Stone interview. And, I think, the author…
