Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Josef Joffe: Gunter Grass's Tin Ear - WSJ.com

Josef Joffe: Gunter Grass's Tin Ear - WSJ.com
 The motive is unbearable guilt feelings, though Germany has evolved into a model democracy since 1945. How to regain moral worth? By projecting culpability onto Israel.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Text of Netanyahu's Letter to Flytilla Participants

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TURKISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS IN THE SHADOW OF THE ARAB SPRING

TURKISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS IN THE SHADOW OF THE ARAB SPRING

This article is a short analysis of how Turkey changed under AKP rule so that the regime no longer wished to have an alignment with Israel but, on the contrary, needed to treat Israel as an enemy.

Poison Pen » Main Feature » Jewish Ideas Daily

Poison Pen » Main Feature » Jewish Ideas Daily
A Nobel Prize-winning German novelist—a former SS soldier, no less—accuses the state of Israel of seeking to exterminate an entire people whose leadership has repeatedly publicly called for the end of Israel and is acknowledged by virtually all to be developing nuclear weapons capabilities. The literary republic yawns. But when Israel bars its accuser from entering the country, because ex-Nazis have no place in the Jewish state, the cries of "bullying" and "censorship" nearly drown out the original accusation.
How do you define the new anti-Semitism?