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The Gaza choice

Nine years ago Israel’s great military leader Ariel Sharon elected to follow through with Israel’s promise in the Oslo Accords to grant land to the Palestinians living in Gaza in order to promulgate a peaceful solution to the ongoing crisis...

Israel’s ‘cease-fires’ and the urgent need for ‘citizen diplomacy’

By NOAM BEDEIN

In the past seven years, four ‘cease-fires’ have been foisted upon the State of Israel in its three military operations in Gaza. Nothing substantive has resulted from these accommodations.

Now, during Operation Protective Edge, Israel has already...

OP-ED: Why I flew to Ben Gurion Airport

By MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG

Just hours after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration prohibited domestic airlines from flying to Israel this week, I boarded an El Al flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Ben-Gurion International...

OP-ED: Finding equality in a Jerusalem bomb shelter

By AARON D. PANKEN

NEW YORK (JTA) – When the siren sounded, the Rolling Stones’ tortured 1969 track “Gimme Shelter” popped into my head, oddly enough.

That haunting song offered a stunning reminder of the endless horrors of war, reawakening...

OP-ED: Don’t lose sight of the Iranian threat

By LAWRENCE GROSSMANNEW YORK (JTA) — The bloody sectarian warfare in Iraq and Syria and the swift takeover of wide swaths of territory by the Sunni fundamentalist ISIS — now calling itself a “caliphate” — has...

Seventh lesson for the Gaza-Israel war

By MOSHE PHILLIP and BENJAMIN KORN

A simple cease-fire in Gaza would give Hamas time to re-arm and renew its terrorist activities.

The demilitarization of Gaza would put an end to Hamas’s terrorist activities.

Which goal makes more sense?

President...

OP-ED: Give peace a chance (to reload)

By DANIEL PEREZ

For those of you who might have missed it, there’s some good news from Washington on the Gaza front: It seems the Obama administration is willing to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, just like it...

OP-ED: First lesson of the Gaza war

By MOSHE PHILLIPS and BENYAMIN KORN

During the first 24 hours of the Gaza war, Palestinian terrorists fired more than 200 rockets into Israel. Yet only one Israeli was wounded, and none were killed. How is that possible?

When Israel...

OP-ED: The Presbyterians’ Jewish problem

By GARY BRETTON-GRANATOOR

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Jewish world has been shaken by the decision of the Presbyterian Church (USA) to divest from three companies that it claims “further the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”

The denomination has placed itself...

Reporter’s Notebook: Our Worst Fears Realized

By MARCY OSTER

KARNEI SHOMRON, West Bank (JTA) — For the first time in two and a half weeks, my children did not ask, upon opening their eyes in the morning, “Has there been any news about Naftali, Gilad and Eyal?”

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