On June 18, in broad daylight, Palestinian gunmen in a yellow taxi overtook Danny Yehuda–the father of three–as he drove on a highway near Homesh, a small Jewish settlement overlooking Nablus, the West Bank’s largest city, and shot him to death at point-blank range. Taking responsibility for Yehuda’s execution was a group calling itself “Battalions […]
Bernard Avishai
Bernard Avishai, the author of The Tragedy of Zionism, is a senior fellow at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University.
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Clinton’s Darkness At Noon
Bill Clinton has likened his Starr Chamber travails to those of Rubashov, the protagonist of Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon. The comparison is more apt than he knows.
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Post-Zionist Israel
Benny Morris, a professor of history at Ben-Gurion University, and Avi Shlaim, a professor of history at Oxford, have come to be thought of as mainstays among Israel’s New Historians, a term reminiscent of America’s Revisionist school, which came into its own during the late 1960s. Back then, William Appleman Williams particularly captured the imagination […]
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Social Compact, Version 2.0
Responsible companies promise to uphold higher values. Yet the new economy makes it harder than ever for companies to take on a broader social role — that’s why we invented government.