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Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – During the just-concluded U.S. election campaign, I did not follow opinion polls, pore over “evidence-based”...
TEL AVIV – During the just-concluded US election campaign, I did not follow opinion polls, pore over “evidence-based” predictions, or read...
Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is an event of historic proportions in the Middle East. As...
TEL AVIV – Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is an event of historic proportions in the Middle East. As can be seen from...
TEL AVIV – Last year, a social-media trend featured women asking men how often they thought about the Roman Empire. The answer, it seemed, was...
Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – Throughout recorded history, crises and tragedies have inevitably spurred apocalyptic interpretations that seek to imbue...
TEL AVIV – Throughout recorded history, crises and tragedies have inevitably spurred apocalyptic interpretations that seek to imbue temporal...
Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – In 2017, Iran unveiled a digital clock counting down the days to the destruction of Israel in 2040. The display, located...
TEL AVIV – In 2017, Iran unveiled a digital clock counting down the days to the destruction of Israel in 2040. The display, located in Tehran’s...
TEL AVIV – At the “end of history,” it seems, come genocide, ethnic cleansing, and a seismic explosion of tribalism and identity politics. These...
Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – There is a Jewish joke, often attributed to the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, that an anti-Semite is someone who hates Jews...
TEL AVIV – There is a Jewish joke, often attributed to the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, that an anti-Semite is someone who hates Jews more than is...
Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – Mark Twain is often quoted as saying, “History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” He might have added that...
TEL AVIV – Mark Twain is often quoted as saying, “History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” He might have added that when history...
Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – U.S. President Joe Biden’s Middle East peace plan, which reportedly involves re-establishing a path to a two-state...
TEL AVIV – US President Joe Biden’s Middle East peace plan, which reportedly involves re-establishing a path to a two-state solution and full...
TEL AVIV – A year into World War II, the United Kingdom’s War Cabinet established a committee that would be responsible for clarifying the UK’s...
TEL AVIV – This week, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled on two major bills pushed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s far-right government as...