Israeli People & Politics
A Dose of Nuance: Our hope (for what?) is not yet lost by Daniel Gordis, Jerusalem Post, May 17, 2012
Israel’s Arabs, Living a Paradox by Daniel Pipes, The Washington Times, March 22, 2012
No, Israel Isn’t Turning into an Iran-Style Theocracy by Gil Troy, The New Republic, February 2, 2012
Can the Center Hold? Understanding Israel’s Pragmatic Majority by Yossi Klein Halevi, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2012
Into the Fray: A nation betrayed? by Martin Sherman, Jerusalem Post, November 18, 2011
The list of the Left’s blunders is depressingly lengthy. It has been hopelessly wrong about… well, everything.
World View Interview With PM Benjamin Netanyahu, March 30, 2011 [video & transcript]
Decency Abhors A Vacuum by Daniel Gordis, Jerusalem Post, January 28, 2011
The Opposition We Really Need by Daniel Gordis, Jerusalem Post, January 14, 2011
Israel’s Evolving Security Concept by Meron Medzini, The Middle East Review of International Affairs at the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Interdisciplinary University, MERIA Journal Vol. 14, No. 4, December 2010
The undeniable Jewish state by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, October 17, 2010
Ethiopian Israelis, the right of return, and accusations of racism by Adam Levick, CiF Watch, October 14, 2010
Many countries provide immigration privileges to individuals with ethnic/familial ties to these countries (so-called ”leges sanguinis”). As examples: Bulgaria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Poland, Romania, S. Korea, Spain, Turkey, and Ukraine, all have citizenship laws based partly or largely on this principle – that is, a Right of Return of sorts for people determined to share a preferred common national trait. Apart from France, ”jus sanguinis” still is the preferred means of passing on citizenship in many continental European countries, with benefits of maintaining national unity (while not in any way necessarily denying equal civil rights for minorities within the country who have citizenship, but who don’t share such traits). So, in fact, Israel is not at all unique in seeking to maintain a nation unified by a citizenry who share a similar historical memory and a common sense of political & moral destiny.
Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People: From the San Remo Conference (1920) to the Netanyahu-Abbas Talks by Joshua Teitelbaum, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 579, September-October 2010
