Contemporary Readings

#123 Contemporary Readings May 2023

June 9, 2023

Assembled by Ken Stein and Wendy Kalman, Center for Israel Education

Elliott Abrams, “As Israel Turns 75, ‘Foreign Affairs’ Publishes a Call to Eliminate It,” Council of Foreign Relations, May 9, 2023, https://www.cfr.org/blog/israel-turns-75-foreign-affairs-publishes-call-eliminate-it 

Ghaith al-Omari, “The Palestinian succession Crisis,” Foreign Affairs, May 16, 2023, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/palestinian-territory/palestinian-succession-crisis  

Zvi Bar’el, “Saudi Arabia’s New Middle East Strategy Leaves Israel in the Dust,” Ha’aretz, May 19, 2023, https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2023-05-19/ty-article/.highlight/saudi-arabias-new-middle-east-strategy-leaves-israel-in-the-dust/00000188-32e3-d7fd-adec-ffeb11e20000 

Lenny Ben-David, “The First Jerusalem Liberation Day in the Modern Era – in 1917,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 17, 2023, https://jcpa.org/the-first-jerusalem-liberation-day-in-the-modern-era-in-1917/ 

“Saudi Arabia: Between Iran and Israel,” INSS and the Moshe Dayan Center conference, May 28, 2023, video and audio, (2 plus hours, English translation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEz8W2fk2zs

Yonah Jeremy Bob, “Israel’s Operation Shield and Arrow: Is blowing stuff up a strategy?,” Jerusalem Post, May 12, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-742798 

Amanda Borschel-Dan, “What Matters Now to ToI analyst Haviv Rettig Gur: The political perils of conflict,” Times of Israel, May 12, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-matters-now-to-toi-analyst-haviv-rettig-gur-the-political-perils-of-conflict/ 

Udi Dekel, “Israel Must Establish the rules of the game,” Times of Israel, May 13, 2021, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-must-establish-the-rules-of-the-game/ 

Gabby Deutch, “‘Times’ reporter goes inside Israel’s identity crisis, 75 years in the making,” Jewish Insider, May 24, 2023, https://jewishinsider.com/2023/05/new-york-times-isabel-kershner-israel-reporter-book/ 

Stanley Dubinsky and Hesh Epstein, “How Hebrew Kept Us as a People,” Tablet, May 19, 2023, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/belief/articles/lashon-hebrew-language-anchor-jewish-identity 

Assaf Gilead and Meital Veizberg, “Startup Nation: rooted in socialism and military technology,” (short history of its origins), Globes, May 3, 2023, https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-startup-nation-rooted-in-socialism-and-military-technology-1001445529

Dominic Green, “Why does Joe Biden’s antisemitism strategy barely mention Israel?,” Jewish Chronicle, May 31, 2023, https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/all/why-does-joe-bidens-antisemitism-strategy-barely-mention-israel-4uRsnFpEx4vAL8q7qIup40 

Leon Hadar, “From the Alliance of the Periphery to a Solidifying the Arab-Israeli Core,” National Interest, June 4, 2023, https://nationalinterest.org/feature/alliance-periphery-solidifying-arab-israeli-core-206524 

Ezra Kopelowitz and Shlomi Ravid, “Jewish Peoplehood: Mapping the Field in Israel,” Reut Institute, October 2021, https://www.reutgroup.org/_files/ugd/7c17af_63bc25e1240c4f9898fdeec9acb96590.pdf 

Martin Kramer, “Israel’s Declaration of Independence,” undated 8-episode course, Tikvah Fund, https://tikvahfund.org/course/declaring-israels-independence/ 

Meir Litwak with Adi Kantor, “Anti-Semitism in the Arab World New Manifestations to an Old Problem, INSS Podcast, 38:00, June 1, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb1Qq3Djdx8 

Oved Lobel, “Essay: A New Multifront Strategy?,” Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, May 25, 2023, https://aijac.org.au/australia-israel-review/essay-a-new-multifront-strategy/ 

Ameer Makhoul, “Israel: How leaders threaten war on Iran to resolve internal crisis,” Middle East Eye, May 31, 2023, https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-how-leaders-threaten-war-on-iran-resolve-internal-crisis 

Yossi Melman, “Israel’s Targeted Assassinations Are a Poor Substitute for a Strategy,” Ha’aretz, May 17, 2023,  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-05-17/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israels-targeted-assassinations-are-a-poor-substitute-for-a-strategy/00000188-25af-d18b-a79d-25ffb14c0000 

Yariv Mohar and Aya Shoshan, “Strategic Assessment: The Struggle against Radicalization that Encourages Terror: Israel vs. the World,” INSS, March 2023, https://www.inss.org.il/strategic_assessment/radicalization/ 

Benny Morris, “Striking the right balance between black and white narrative,” The Jewish Chronicle, May 11, 2023, https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/striking-the-right-balance-between-black-and-white-narratives-4GiGTvgpSSswQMS6cmMbQk  

Michael Oren, “When Israel gave Hamas something worth not fighting for,” Times of Israel, May 15, 2023, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-israel-gave-hamas-something-worth-not-fighting-for/  

Barak Ravid, “Scoop: Israel tells U.S. it won’t turn Homesh outpost into new settlement threatens Israel,” Axios, May 23, 2023, https://www.axios.com/2023/05/23/israel-homesh-settlement-palestinians-west-bank 

Barak Ravid, “Scoop: Israeli security chief in D.C. for talks on West Bank and Gaza tensions,” Axios, June 1, 2023, https://www.axios.com/2023/06/01/shin-bet-bar-biden-talks-west-bank-gaza-tensions 

Haviv Rettig Gur, “For Netanyahu, the storm before the calm?,” Times of Israel, May 11, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-storm-before-the-calm-2/  

Haviv Rettig Gur, “Why the new state budget both favors and hurts Haredim… and deeply,” Times of Israel, May 23, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-new-state-budget-favors-haredim-and-hurts-them/  

Marc Rod, “Bipartisan group of lawmakers urge expanding Abraham Accords into Africa,” Jewish Insider, June 5, 2023, https://jewishinsider.com/2023/06/abraham-accords-africa-israel-u-s-peace-normalization/ 

Robert Satloff, “The No-State Solution,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 31, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/no-state-solution 

Jonathan Schanzer “Iran’s Multifront Strategy Against Israel,” Commentary, June 2023, https://www.commentary.org/articles/jonathan-schanzer/irans-multifront-strategy-against-israel/  

Bret Stephens, “At 75, Israel Has Plenty to Celebrate,” New York Times, May 16, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/opinion/israel-75th-anniversary.html 

Jake Sullivan, NSA Adviser, “US Policy in the Middle East,” Soref Symposium, May 4, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/keynote-address-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan 

Ksenia Svetlova, “In an endless series of Israeli operations, Operation Shield and Arrow in Gaza was yet another name on the list,” Atlantic Council, June 2, 2023, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/operation-shield-arrow-gaza-israel-hamas-pij/ 

TOI Staff, “US wants Israel to shelve judicial overhaul in return for Saudi normalization — TV,” Times of Israel, May 23, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-wants-israel-to-shelve-judicial-overhaul-in-return-for-saudi-normalization-tv/ 

Avi Weiss and Eitan Fischberger, “The National Antisemitism Strategy Has No Clothes,” Tablet, June 2, 2023, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/national-antisemitisim-strategy-has-no-clothes 

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