Jews and Poles don’t need to be enemies…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org

Jews and Poles spent most of the first half of the 20th century at each other’s throats. Must they continue on the same destructive path as we head further into the 21st century? Read more

Spare us your Holocaust hypocrisy

Last Saturday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date, which commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, is the one most of the world uses to remember the Shoah, even if Israel and most Jewish communities primarily employ another date a week after Passover in the Hebrew calendar for Yom HaShoah. Read more

What did you hear when Mike Pence spoke to the Knesset?

In Monday’s New York Times, columnist Max Fisher treated Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Israel as just another expression of what he considers the divisive policies of the Trump administration…Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

Why Trump’s Palestinian aid cut threat makes sense

We didn’t need the publication of a new book filled with behind-the-scenes gossip to know that Donald Trump is an unconventional and, at times, inappropriate president…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

Defining ‘occupied’ and the semantic battle for peace

In a demonstration of how completely at odds his views are from those of the foreign policy establishment, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman reportedly asked the State Department to stop using the term “occupied territories” and instead refer to the “West Bank.”…writes Jonathan S.Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

Time for a peace process paradigm change

What are the details of the Middle East peace plan that President Donald Trump will use to craft what he hopes is the “ultimate deal?”…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

How Balfour explains why the peace process failed

It was a minor news story when it broke in the summer of 2016. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas announced he was suing Great Britain over the Balfour Declaration, issued on Nov. 2, 1917…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

Interpol and the Palestinians: Where’s a cop when you need one?

The good news is that it turns out Interpol isn’t the international police agency that movies and television shows have led us to believe. The bad news is that the international community just gave the Good Housekeeping seal of approval to those who traffic in terrorism…writes Jonathan S. Tobin. Read more

Mengele, Charlottesville and the lessons of history

What can the hunt for Josef Mengele teach us about the challenges facing Jews today?…writes Jonathan Tobin. Read more

No good options for Netanyahu

The last two weeks was not a good time to be prime minister of Israel…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

The argument is about Jews, not metal detectors

To an objective observer, the crisis that erupted in the aftermath of a bloody terror attack near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount makes no sense…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

Want a path to peace? Pound the table at Abbas

The most important incident during President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East took place out of view of the international press….writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org Read more

Taking Trump seriously, but not literally, in the Middle East

In a seminal piece for The Atlantic last September, journalist Salena Zito explained a simple truth that most people hadn’t grasped about the man who was about to be elected the 45th president of the United States…writing Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org Read more

Can Trump’s outside-in formula work? …asks Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org

Much of the attention being given to President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East has focused on whether his first foreign trip will provide much of a distraction from his growing domestic troubles. But the real substance centres on his plan to solve a problem that has eluded all of his predecessors: the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Read more

The foolish embassy expectations game

When President Donald Trump heads to the Middle East later this month, the world will be primarily watching closely to see if he makes any of his trademark gaffes that set off a cultural land mine in Saudi Arabia or Israel. But the more important question is whether he will use the trip to actually make policy…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org Read more

Hubris and the ‘new’ Hamas…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org

President Donald Trump’s optimism about Middle East peace might be justified. Perhaps Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’s pledge that he will be a “true partner” to Trump in the search for a solution to the conflict with Israel is genuine. Maybe the president’s negotiating skills, and his lack of interest in the details or loyalty to formulas like the two-state solution, will provide what is needed to achieve progress.  Read more

Why the debate about Iran isn’t over…writes Jonathan S. Tobin

When the Obama administration managed to avoid a congressional vote on its nuclear deal with Iran in the fall of 2015 courtesy of a Democratic Senate filibuster, the argument surrounding the controversial agreement seemed to be over. Read more

The Palestinians don’t want Mandela

Palestinian internal politics and liberal hostility to Israel came together at The New York Times this month…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

Sean Spicer and the ‘anyone I don’t like is Hitler’ rule

The biggest Jewish news story during Passover this year was the latest example of a rule of political argument: he who mentions Hitler first always loses…writes Jonathan S. Tobin. Read more

Does a terrorist fit in a big Jewish tent?

What’s the one value that the Jewish community should care most about?…asks Jonathan Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

Stop denying the Israeli consensus on the Palestinians

Yair Lapid is the current favorite to become prime minister the next time the Israeli people go to the polls to elect a new Knesset, at some point in the not-too-distant future…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

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