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#135 Contemporary Readings May 2024 – Including Israel-Hamas War

May 24, 2024

Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education (May 23, 2024)

Khaled Abu Toameh, “Does the Palestinian Authority Really Want to Return to Gaza?” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 21, 2024 https://jcpa.org/does-the-palestinian-authority-really-want-to-return-to-gaza/

Alan Baker, “The UN’s World of the Absurd,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 12, 2024, https://jcpa.org/the-uns-world-of-the-absurd/

Chietigj Bajpaee, “India’s Engagement with the Middle East Reflects New Delhi’s Changing Worldview,” War on the Rocks, May 22, 2024, https://warontherocks.com/2024/05/indias-engagement-with-the-middle-east-reflects-new-delhis-changing-worldview/

Michael Barak, “Egypt’s Perspective on Israel’s War against Hamas in Gaza,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, May 15, 2024 https://dayan.org/content/egypts-perspective-israels-war-against-hamas-gaza

Yoni Ben Menachem, “The PA’s Return to Gaza Is Impractical and Unwanted,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 21, 2024, https://jcpa.org/the-pas-return-to-gaza-is-impractical-and-unwanted/

Gabriel Epstein, “Untangling the UN’s Gaza Fatality Data,” WINEP PolicyWatch 3871, May 17, 2024, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/untangling-uns-gaza-fatality-data

Robert Freedman, “Russian Policies During the Israeli-Hamas War Since October the 7th,” 

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, BESA Reports no 57, May 13, 2024, https://besacenter.org/russian-policies-during-the-israeli-hamas-war/

Chuck Freilich and Eldad Shavit, “A US-Israeli Defense Treaty: The Time Has Come,” Institute for National Security Studies, Memorandum 234, May 2024, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/defense-treaty/

Hanin Ghaddar, “How Israel’s Rafah Campaign Might Shape Hezbollah’s Operations,” WINEP PolicyWatch 3870, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-israels-rafah-campaign-might-shape-hezbollahs-operations

Eado Hecht, “The Gaza Terror Offensive: 15 April – 13 May 2024,” The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, May 15, 2024, https://besacenter.org/the-gaza-terror-offensive-october-7-8-2023/

Joshua Krasna, “The Struggle for Stability: Arab Reactions to the Hamas-Israel War,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, May 15, 2024, https://dayan.org/content/introduction-struggle-stability-arab-reactions-hamas-israel-war

Matthew Levitt, “What Hamas Wants in Postwar Gaza: The Power to Fight Without the Burden of Governing,” Foreign Affairs, May 10, 2024 https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/what-hamas-wants-postwar-gaza-power-fight-without-burden-governing

Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, “Criticism of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Objections to the War with Israel,” May 15, 2024,  https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/criticism-of-hezbollah-in-lebanon-and-objections-to-the-war-with-israel/

The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, “The Palestinian Perspective on the IDF Operation in Rafah,” May 10, 2024, https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/the-palestinian-perspective-on-the-idf-operation-in-rafah/

Maurice Hirsch, “Deflating the Threat Posed by the International Criminal Court (ICC),” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 8, 2024, https://jcpa.org/article/deflating-the-threat-posed-by-the-international-criminal-court-icc/

Ephraim Lavie, Meir Elran, and Tomer Fadlon, “Between Restraint and Protest: Arab Society in Israel After Seven Months of War,” INSS Insight, Institute for National Security Studies, no. 1854, May 19, 2024, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/arab-society-7-months/

Gallia Lindenstrauss and Remi Daniel, “Turkish–Israeli Relations at a Dangerous Turning Point,” INSS Insight, Institute for National Security Studies, no. 1853, May 19, 2024, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/turkey-israel-low/

Orna Mizrahi and Yoram Schweitzer, “The Likelihood of the Conflict Between Israel and Hezbollah,”  INSS Insight, Institute for National Security Studies, no. 1850, May 2, 2024, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/hezbollah-israel-war-chance/

Amir Oren, “Gaza-lighting: How Israel’s Weakest Foe Became its Worst Enemy,” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, May 2024, https://jstribune.com/oren-gaza-lighting/

Dennis Ross, “Israel Needs a New Strategy,” Foreign Affairs, March 13, 2024 https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israel-needs-new-strategy

Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, “Why Israel Should Declare a Unilateral Cease-Fire in Gaza,” Foreign Affairs, May 1, 2024, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/why-israel-should-declare-unilateral-cease-fire-gaza

Harold Rhode, “The Attack on Iran’s IRGC Leaders in Damascus and the Iranian Attack on Israel: An Iranian View,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 12, 2024  https://jcpa.org/the-attack-on-irans-irgc-leaders-in-damascus-and-the-iranian-attack-on-israel-an-iranian-view/

Shay Shabtai, “The ‘Seven Sins’ of Intelligence: A Basis for Discussion,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, BESA Center Perspectives Paper no. 2,273, May 12, 2024 https://besacenter.org/the-seven-sins-of-intelligence-a-basis-for-discussion/

Boaz Shapira, “Hezbollah – Equipping Itself with Iranian Sayyad 2 Surface-to-Air Missiles,” Alma Research and Education Center, May 20, 2024 https://israel-alma.org/2024/05/20/hezbollah-equipping-itself-with-iranian-sayyad-2-surface-to-air-missiles/

David Schenker, “An Israel-Lebanon Agreement May Not Be Worth the Costs,” WINEP PolicyWatch 3868, May 14, 2024 https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israel-lebanon-agreement-may-not-be-worth-costs

Dana Stroul, “The Dangers of an Ungovernable Gaza,” Foreign Affairs, May 20, 2024 https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/dangers-ungovernable-gaza

Steven Windmueller, “In the Wake of October 7: Reflections on the American Jewish Community,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 20, 2024 https://jcpa.org/in-the-wake-of-october-7-reflections-on-the-american-jewish-community/

Ofir Winter, “The Iranian Attack: An Opportunity to Repair Israel-Jordan Relations,” INSS Insight, Institute for National Security Studies, no. 1851, May 6, 2024, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/jordan-israel-2024/

Dov S. Zakheim, “Turkey and Israel Ties at Low Ebb, But Could Recover,” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, May 2024, https://jstribune.com/zakheium-turkey-and-israel-ties-at-low-ebb/


#134 Contemporary Readings April 2024 – Including Israel-Hamas War

April 30, 2024

Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education

CIE Webinar, “Women Respond to the War With Hamas,” Ken Stein, Yocheved Kim Ruttenberg, Pnina Sharvit Baruch, and Julia Elad-Strenger, April 17, 2024 (audio/visual)https://israeled.org/israels-9-11-women-respond-to-the-war-with-hamas/

CIE Webinar, “Europe-Israel Relations Under Pressure,” Ken Stein, Joan Ryan, Colin Shindler, and Raouf Leeraar, April 10, 2024, (audio/visual) https://israeled.org/israels-9-11-europe-israel-relations-under-pressure/

CIE Webinar, “A General Assesses the Hamas War: Rafah’s Value, Gaza’s Future, and Effects on U.S. and Saudi Relations,” Ken Stein and Amir Avivi, April 3, 2024, (audio.visual) https://israeled.org/israels-9-11-a-general-assesses-the-hamas-war-rafahs-value-gazas-future-and-effects-on-u-s-and-saudi-relations/

Scott Abramson, “Gen Z, Infected with Antisemitism, Is Spreading the Very Disease It’s Committed to Eradicating—Racism,” (originally published in Newsweek, April 8, 2024) https://israeled.org/scott-abramson-gen-z-infected-with-antisemitism-is-spreading-the-very-disease-its-committed-to-eradicating-racism/

Scott Abramson, “Antisemitism,” Center for Israel Education, April 18, 2024,  https://israeled.org/themes/antisemitism/

Khaled Abu Toameh, “Is the Palestinian Authority Trying to Return to Gaza?” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, April 21, 2024, https://jcpa.org/is-the-palestinian-authority-trying-to-return-to-gaza/

Yaakov Amidror, “Iran’s ‘Ring of Fire,’” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, April 8, 2024, https://jiss.org.il/en/amidror-irans-ring-of-fire/

Ben-Dror Yemini, “Hamas Loses War in Gaza But Wins It in US, West,” Ynet, April 24, 2024, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkascqlb0

Yoni Ben Menachem, “How the Failed Iranian Attack Benefitted Israel,”  Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, April 18, 2024, https://jcpa.org/how-the-failed-iranian-attack-benefitted-israel/

Ruthie Blum, “Shai Davidai’s War on Campus Antisemitism,” Jewish News Syndicate, April 26, 2024, https://www.jns.org/shai-davidais-war-on-campus-antisemitism/

Ahmed Charai, “Iran’s Attack Requires a Broad Response,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune April 2024, https://jstribune.com/charai-irans-attack-requires-a-broad-response/

Julia Christ, “Anti-Zionism: a Realistic Option?” K., April 26, 2024,  https://k-larevue.com/en/antizionism-option/?utm_campaign=K.%20La%20Revue%20%23161EN&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Mailjet

=Daniel Edelson, “Gaza Journalist Who Captured October 7 Horrors Makes Time’s 2024 Most Influential,” YNet, April 18, 2024, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bya11uvaga

Alan Eyre, “Iran and the ‘Ship of Theseus’ Paradox,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, April 2024, https://jstribune.com/eyre-iran-and-the-ship-of-theseus-paradox/

Freddy Etyan, “Recognition of a Palestinian State Will Be a Victory for Iran and a Reward for Islamist Terrorism,” April 8, 2024, https://jcpa.org/recognition-of-a-palestinian-state-will-be-a-victory-for-iran-and-a-reward-for-islamist-terrorism/

Douglas J. Feith & Lewis Libby, “Humanitarians Should Want Hamas’s Human-Sacrifice Strategy to Fail,” Hudson Institute, April 19, 2024, https://www.hudson.org/terrorism/humanitarians-should-want-hamas-human-sacrifice-strategy-fail-douglas-feith-lewis-libby

Macha Fogel, “What Is the Yiddish Orthodox Press Saying about October 7 and the War in Gaza?” K. April 4, 2024, https://k-larevue.com/en/what-is-the-yiddish-orthodox-press-saying-about-october-7-and-the-war-in-gaza/

James Foggo, “The Day After Tomorrow: Dark Clouds Loom over the Middle East,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, April 2024 https://jstribune.com/foggo-dark-clouds-loom-over-the-middle-east/

Jonathan Ghariani, “Comparing Israeli-Turkish Relations: The 1990s Versus Post-October 7,” Turkeyscope, April 11, 2024 https://dayan.org/content/comparing-israeli-turkish-relations-1990s-versus-post-october-7

Gidi Harari and Sarit Zahavi, “Opinion: A Turning Point for Israel and the Middle East,” Alma Research, April 16, 2024, https://israel-alma.org/2024/04/16/opinion-a-turning-point-for-israel-and-the-middle-east/

Olli Heinonen, “Detecting and Blocking Iran’s Nuclear Breakout,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, April 2024, https://jstribune.com/heinonen-detecting-and-blocking-irans-nuclear-breakout/

Tamar Hermann, Lior Yohanani, and Yaron Kaplan, “Israelis Say the Time Has Come for Those Responsible for October 7 to Step Down,” Israel Democracy Institute, April 21, 2024  https://en.idi.org.il/articles/53666

“Iranian Disabled Man Gets Four Years in Prison for ‘Supporting Israel,’” IranWire, April 26, 2024,  https://iranwire.com/en/news/128166-iranian-disabled-man-gets-four-years-in-prison-for-supporting-israel/

“ISIS Calls for Attacking Christians and Jews Everywhere,” The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, April 1, 2024,  https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/isis-calls-for-attacking-christians-and-jews-everywhere/

Meir Finkel, “Preventive War: Its Disappearance from Israel’s Security Toolbox and the Need for Its Return,” BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,270, April 21, 2024, https://besacenter.org/preventive-war-its-disappearance-from-israels-security-toolbox-and-the-need-for-its-return/

John Hannah, “US, Israeli, Arab Coordination in Mideast Against Iran Comes to Fruition,” Defense News, April 18, 2024,  https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/2024/04/18/us-israeli-arab-coordination-in-mideast-against-iran-comes-to-fruition/

Michael Harari, “Urgently Needed: Agreed Principles for Initiating a Political Process,” BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,273, April 4, 2024, https://besacenter.org/urgently-needed-an-agreed-principles-for-initiating-a-political-process/

James Jeffrey, “Israel’s Next Steps: Build on Victory,” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, April 2024, https://jstribune.com/jeffrey-israels-next-steps-build-on-victory/

Eliana Jordan, “Israel Prepares to Evacuate One Million Palestinians from Rafah Ahead of Invasion,” The Jewish Chronicle, April 24, 2024, https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/israel-prepares-to-evacuate-one-million-palestinians-from-rafah-ahead-of-invasion-x35q0iwk

David Litman, “CNN Article Errs and Misleads on Gaza Humanitarian Aid,” CAMERA, April 18, 2024, https://www.camera.org/article/cnn-article-errs-and-misleads-on-gaza-humanitarian-aid/

Tricia Miller, “Tucker Carlson’s Assault on American Christian Support for Israel,” CAMERA, April 11, 2024, https://www.camera.org/article/tucker-carlsons-assault-on-american-christian-support-for-israel/

Jacob Olidort, “Israel’s Response to Iran’s Attack Requires U.S. Follow-Through,” Real Clear Defense, April 20, 2024, https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/04/20/israels_response_to_irans_attack_requires_us_follow-through_1026382.html

Michael Oren, “A Page from the 1968 Playbook?” Clarity, April 28, 2024, https://claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com/p/a-page-from-the-1968-playbook?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

Simon Plosker, “Israel at War: The Media Battlefield–Briefing #27,” Honest Reporting, April 25, 2024, https://honestreporting.com/israel-at-war-the-media-battlefield-briefing-27/

Dana Polak Kanarik & Tal Beeri, “Six Months Into The War in The Northern Arena – A Summary of Key Insights and Trends,” Alma Research, April 7, 2024 https://israel-alma.org/2024/04/07/six-months-into-the-war-in-the-northern-arena-a-summary-of-key-insights-and-trends/

Neomi Neumann, Devorah Margolin, “The Palestinian Arena in the Shadow of the Iran-Israel Crisis,” WINEP PolicyWatch 3861, Apr 25, 2024 https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/palestinian-arena-shadow-iran-israel-crisis

David Schenker, “Will Israel temper its war on Iran’s regional proxies?” Al Majalla, April 24, 2024, https://en.majalla.com/node/315431/politics/will-israel-temper-its-war-irans-regional-proxies

Ilya Shapiro, “Abolish Anti-Semitic Student Groups, April 24, 2024, City Journal https://www.city-journal.org/article/abolish-anti-semitic-student-groups

George N. Tzogopoulos, “The EU Engagement in the Red Sea, BESA Center Perspectives 

Paper no. 2275, April 10, 2024, https://besacenter.org/52796/

Mike Watson, “The International Trade Commission Is Hobbling Israel. City Journal, April 3, 2024, https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-international-trade-commission-is-hobbling-israel


#133 Contemporary Readings March 2024

March 30, 2024

Including Israel-Hamas War

Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education

Tal Beeri, “Is Israel Responsible for Lebanon’s Economic Situation?” Alma Research and Education Center, March 13, 2024,  https://israel-alma.org/2024/03/13/is-israel-responsible-for-lebanons-economic-situation/

Yoni Ben Menachem, “Assessing Hamas’ Failures,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 14, 2024, https://jcpa.org/assessing-hamas-failures/

Yoni Ben Menachem, “The Parallels Between Yahya Sinwar and Yasser Arafat,” March 14, 2024, https://jcpa.org/the-parallels-between-yahya-sinwar-and-yasser-arafat/

Yigal Carmon, “Port Of Hope In Gaza: The Beginning Of The End Of The War,” Memri, March 11, 2014, https://www.memri.org/reports/port-hope-gaza-beginning-end-war

Ari Cicurel and Jacob Olidort, “U.S. Abstention at the UN Undermined Support for Israel—And Stated U.S. Policy,” JINSA, March 26, 2024, https://jinsa.org/jinsa_report/us-abstention-at-the-un-undermined-support-for-israel-and-stated-us-policy/

Dan Diker, Zvi Yehezkeli, “Gaza’s Understanding of U.S. Humanitarian Aid: A ‘Free Lunch,’” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 20, 2024, https://jcpa.org/gazas-understanding-of-u-s-humanitarian-aid-a-free-lunch/

Gabriel Epstein, “Gaza Fatality Data Has Become Completely Unreliable,” WINEP Policy Analysis, March 26, 2024, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/gaza-fatality-data-has-become-completely-unreliable

“Five Months of Hostilities on the Israel-Lebanon Border,” The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, March 17, 2024, https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/five-months-of-hostilities-on-the-israel-lebanon-border/

Hillel Frisch, “Biden’s Veto on Israeli Victory Is a Threat to Western Security and the Arab States,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, March 07, 2024,

https://jiss.org.il/en/frisch-bidens-veto-on-israeli-victory/

Hillel Frisch, “Cement Is One of the Reasons Why Hamas Must Be Defeated,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, March 26, 2024, 

https://jiss.org.il/en/frisch-cement-is-one-of-the-reasons-why-hamas-must-be-defeated/

Leila Gilbert, “Is the White House Playing Political Games with Israel’s Soldiers and Hostages?” Hudson Institute, March 22, 2024, https://www.hudson.org/terrorism/white-house-playing-political-games-israels-soldiers-hostages-lela-gilbert

John Hannah and Michael Makovsky, “Joe Biden’s Plan for a Palestinian State Will Harm America and Israel,” The National Interest, March 6, 2024, https://jinsa.org/joe-bidens-plan-for-a-palestinian-state-will-harm-america-and-israel/

Michael Harari and Elai Rettig, “How Energy Considerations Affect Hezbollah’s Involvement in the War in Gaza,” BESA Geo-Energy Insights No. 1, March 5, 2024, https://besacenter.org/how-energy-considerations-affect-hezbollahs-involvement-in-the-war-in-gaza/

Simon Henderson, “Israeli Gas Field Near Lebanon Starts Production,” WINEP Policy Analysis, March 4, 2024, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israeli-gas-field-near-lebanon-starts-production

Maurice Hirsch, “The PA Tries to Fool the World,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 3, 2024, https://jcpa.org/the-pa-tries-to-fool-the-world/

Enia Krivine, “The two-state solution is a dangerous pipedream- Israel’s adversaries want all the land “from the river to the sea,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, March 10, 2024, https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/03/10/the-two-state-solution-is-a-dangerous-pipedream/

“Is The Lebanese Army Capable of Enforcing a New Political Outline in Southern Lebanon and Being a Counterweight to Hezbollah?” Alma Research and Education Center, March 4, 2024, https://israel-alma.org/2024/03/04/is-the-lebanese-army-capable-of-enforcing-a-new-political-outline-in-southern-lebanon-and-being-a-counterweight-to-hezbollah/

Eran Lerman, “Debunking the Myth of the Muqawwamah (“Resistance”): The Strategic Significance of the Surrender of Hamas Terrorists,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, March 26, 2024, https://jiss.org.il/en/lerman-debunking-the-myth-of-the-muqawwamah/

David Levy, “Port of No Return: The US Plan for Aid Relief in Gaza,” BESA Center Perspectives Paper No.2,269, March 20, 2024, https://besacenter.org/port-of-no-return-the-us-plan-for-aid-relief-in-gaza/

Lewis Libby, “The Day After: A Plan for Gaza,” Hudson Institute, March 7, 2024,

https://www.hudson.org/international-organizations/day-after-plan-gaza-lewis-libby

James Lindsay, “Options for UNRWA: From Systemic Reform to Dissolution,” WINEP Policy Notes 146, March 21, 2024, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/options-unrwa-systemic-reform-dissolution

Michael Makovsky, Don Davis, and August Pfluger, “Conditioning U.S. Aid to Israel Would Be a Mistake,” Washington Examiner, March 27, 2024, https://jinsa.org/conditioning-us-aid-to-israel-would-be-a-mistake/

Dennis Ross, “Israel Needs a New Strategy,” WINEP, March 13, 2024,

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israel-needs-new-strategy

Jonathan Ruhe, “The Biden Administration Has an Opportunity to Rein In Iran,” The Dispatch (JINSA), March 27, 2024, https://jinsa.org/the-biden-administration-has-an-opportunity-to-rein-in-iran/

Jonathan Rynhold and Toby Greene, “Beyond Humanitarian Aid: A Plan for Gazan Civilians Is a Strategic Necessity for Israel,” BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,271, March 26, 2024, https://besacenter.org/beyond-humanitarian-aid-a-plan-for-gazan-civilians-is-a-strategic-necessity-for-israel/

Robert Satloff, “There No Such Thing as a ‘Ramadan Truce,’” The Hill, March 12, 2024, https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4524779-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-ramadan-truce/

Shay Shabtai, “What Would ‘Total Victory’ Mean in Gaza?” BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,267, March 27, 2024, https://besacenter.org/what-would-total-victory-mean-in-gaza/

Jeremy Sharon, “In ‘Historic’ Step, High Court Orders Halt to Yeshiva Funds for Students Eligible for Draft,” Times of Israel, March 28, 2024, https://rb.gy/wlvoe7

Eldad Shavit and Chuck Freilich, “US—Israel Relations Amid Growing Disagreement Over a Military Operation in Rafah,” INSS Insight No. 1839, March 25, 2024, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/israel-usa-rafah/

Eldad Shavit, Pnina Sharvit Baruch, Tammy Caner, Chuck Freilich, “The Implications of the UN Security Council’s Decision, the US Veto, and Israel’s Response,” INSS, March 27, 2024, https://www.inss.org.il/social_media/israel-usa/

Boaz Shapira, “Israel Sends a Message to Iran,” Alma Research and Education Center, March 27, 2024, https://israel-alma.org/2024/03/27/israel-sends-a-message-to-iran/

John Spencer, “Israel Has Created a New Standard for Urban Warfare. Why Will No One Admit It?” Newsweek, March 25, 2024, https://www.newsweek.com/israel-has-created-new-standard-urban-warfare-why-will-no-one-admit-it-opinion-1883286

Manuel Valls, “Israel On the Front Lines,” Tablet, March 27, 2024, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/israel-on-front-lines-manuel-valls

Abraham Wyner, “How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers,” Tablet, March 6, 2024, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers


#132 Contemporary Readings February 2024 – Including Israel-Hamas War

March 4, 2024

Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education

Hussain Abdul-Hussain, “Is Gaza Really the Biggest Case of Arab Suffering?” Algemeiner, February 28, 2024, https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/02/28/is-gaza-really-the-biggest-case-of-arab-suffering/

Hezki Baruch, “Netanyahu Presents: The Plan for ‘The Day after Hamas,’” Arutz Sheva, February 23, 2024, https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/385675

Yoni Ben Menachem, “Why the Palestinian Authority Opposes Marwan Barghouti’s Potential Prison Release,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 25, 2024, https://jcpa.org/why-the-palestinian-authority-opposes-marwan-barghoutis-potential-prison-release/

Yoni Ben Menachem, “Saudi Arabia Aligns with the PA, Sets Preconditions for Normalization with Israel,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 21, 2024, https://jcpa.org/saudi-arabia-aligns-with-the-pa-sets-preconditions-for-normalization-with-israel/

Louis René Beres, “The Deeper Causes of Anti-Israel Terror,” The Algemeiner, February 24, 2024, https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/02/28/the-true-motivation-of-terror-hamas-terrorists-dont-want-a-state/

Soner Cagaptay, “How Turkey Moved East,” Washington Institute for Near Eastern Affairs, February 19, 2024, “https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-turkey-moved-east

Michael Doran, Can Kasapoğlu, and Jonathan Schachter, “Three Things about the Israel-Hamas War,” Hudson Institute, February 13, 2024, https://www.hudson.org/foreign-policy/three-things-about-israel-hamas-war-february-13-2024-michael-doran-can-kasapoglu-jonathan-schachter

Dean Shmuel Elmas, “Rafah: Striking at the Heart of Hamas Operations,” Globes, February 15, 2024, 

https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-rafah-striking-at-the-heart-of-hamas-operations-1001471315

Jacob Gurvis, “Jewish Teens Are Looking at a New Factor in Their College Search: Antisemitism,” The Forward, February 16, 2024, https://forward.com/news/583833/jewish-teens-college-antisemitism/

Jack Elbaum, “‘Enough is Enough’: Petition to Replace UNRWA Gets More Than 130,000 Signatures,” Algemeiner, February 28, 2024,

https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/02/28/enough-is-enough-petition-to-replace-unrwa-gets-more-than-130000-signatures/

Josh Feldman, “Why Is the World Not Helping Gazans Flee a War Zone?” The Forward, February 20, 2024 https://forward.com/opinion/584142/gaza-refugee-evacuation-palestinian/

Douglas Feith, “Who Should Run Gaza After the War?” The Free Press, February 23, 2024, https://www.thefp.com/p/who-should-run-gaza-after-the-war-douglas-feith

Noah Feldman, “The New Antisemitism,” Time Magazine, February 27, 2024, https://time.com/6763293/antisemitism/

Niall Ferguson, “Ukraine Needs Total Western Support — and So Does Israel,” Bloomberg News, February 25, 2024, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-25/ukraine-needs-total-western-support-and-so-does-israel

Jesse Ferris, “What Happens When Israel Runs Out of Ammo?” Israel Democracy Institute, February 27, 2024, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/53132

Tal Fortgang, “The ‘Occupation’ Dodge,” City Journal, February 27, 2024, https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-occupation-dodge

Meir Finkel, “The Occupation of Territory in War: A Diplomatic and Strategic Achievement for Israel,” BESA, February 14, 2024, https://besacenter.org/the-occupation-of-territory-in-war-a-diplomatic-and-strategic-achievement-for-israel/

Azar Gat, “Achieving the Aims of the War in Gaza,” INSS, February 26, 2024, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/gaza-war-targets/

Yoav Gelber, “Israel’s Revised National Security Doctrine Must Include Border Defense,” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, February 2024, https://jstribune.com/gelber-israels-revised-national-security-doctrine-must-include-border-defense/

Hanin Ghaddar, “Reinforcing U.S. Diplomacy to Stop a Hezbollah-Israel War,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 8, 2024, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/reinforcing-us-diplomacy-stop-hezbollah-israel-war

Hesham al-Ghannam, “Arab Normalisation With Israel Loses Appeal Amid Gaza Horrors,” al-Majalla,https://en.majalla.com/node/311471/politics/arab-normalisation-israel-loses-appeal-amid-gaza-horrors

Alexander Grinberg, “Tehran’s Armenian Weapons Supply Route,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, February 20, 2024 https://jiss.org.il/en/grinberg-tehrans-armenian-weapons-supply-route/

“Hamas Governance in the Gaza Strip: Activity, Institutions, Administration and Public,” The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, February 20, 2024, https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/hamas-governance-in-the-gaza-strip-activity-institutions-administration-and-public/

Tariq Al-Homayed, “Hamas Has Become ‘Hamases,’” al-Sharq al-Aswat, February 28, 2024, https://english.aawsat.com/opinion/4882306-hamas-has-become-%E2%80%9Chamases%E2%80%9D

Efraim Inbar, “The Myopia of Containment,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, February 06, 2024, https://jiss.org.il/en/inbar-bacharach-the-myopia-of-containment/

Ariel Kahana, “‘Not Coincidental’: Drastic Drop in Aid That Goes Through UNRWA,” IsraelHaYom, February 26, 2024, https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/02/26/not-coincidental-drastic-drop-in-israeli-aid-that-goes-through-unrwa/

Liam Karr, “Hamas and Iran in Nigeria; Turkey Capitalizes on Horn of Africa Tensions,” Institute for the Study of War, February 23, 2024. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/hamas-and-iran-nigeria-turkey-capitalizes-horn-africa-tensions

Ayelet Kroizer, “From the Ulpana to the Army: More Young Religious Women are Joining the IDF Since the Outbreak of War,” Shomrim, February 12, 2024, https://www.shomrim.news/eng/from-the-ulpana-to-the-army

Eli Lake, “Could October 7 Bring Down the Squad?” The Free Press, February 20, 2024, https://www.thefp.com/p/could-october-7-bring-down-the-squad

Yaakov Lappin, “How Is the Gaza Buffer Zone Going to Work?” Jewish Chronicle, February 2, 2024, https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/how-is-the-gaza-buffer-zone-going-to-work-lny81v8q

Yaakov Lappin, “At Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, IDF Achieves War Goals With Precision,” Jewish News Syndicate, February 25, 2024, https://www.jns.org/at-nasser-hospital-in-khan-yunis-idf-achieves-war-goals-with-precision/

Tovah Lazaroff, “IDF Presents Rafah Military Operation and Evacuation Plan to War Cabinet,” Jerusalem Post, February 25, 2024, https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-788771

Mark Lavie, “Who’s Afraid of a Palestinian State?” Media Line, February 22, 2024,  https://themedialine.org/news/opinion/whos-afraid-of-a-palestinian-state/

David Levy and Elai Rettig, “‘Confused Seas’: The Current State of Maritime Affairs,” BESA, February 6, 2024, https://besacenter.org/confused-seas-the-current-state-of-maritime-affairs/

David Makovsky, “Without Enforcement, Talk of Two States Is Hollow,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 16, 2024, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/without-enforcement-talk-two-states-hollow

Benny Morris, “The NYT Misrepresents the History of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict,” Quillette, February 27, 2024, https://quillette.com/2024/02/27/the-nyt-misrepresents-the-history-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/

Neomi Neumann, “Sinwar, Mashal, and Israel’s Dilemma for the ‘Day After,’” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 9, 2024,  https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/sinwar-mashal-and-israels-dilemma-day-after

Jacques Neriah, “Hizbullah Claims Seven Villages in Northern Galilee Are Part of Lebanon,”  Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 21, 2024,  https://jcpa.org/hizbullah-claims-seven-villages-in-northern-galilee-are-part-of-lebanon/

Gianluca Pacchiani, “No Longer Afraid of Sparking War, Israel Takes Gloves Off Against IRGC in Syria,” Times of Israel, February 27, 2024, https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-longer-afraid-of-sparking-war-israel-takes-gloves-off-against-irgc-in-syria/

Anshel Pfeffer, “Did Israeli Intelligence Fail to Spot an Obvious Mobile Phone Signal About the October 7 Invasion?” Jewish Chronicle, February 27, 2024, https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/analysis/did-israeli-intelligence-fail-to-spot-an-obvious-mobile-phone-signal-about-the-october-7-invasion-m25s4bsc

Daniel Pipes, “The Rapid Return of Israel’s Disastrous Policy,” Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2024, https://www.meforum.org/65275/the-rapid-return-of-israel-disastrous-policy

Yair Ramati, Yaakov Lappin, and Tal Beeri, “The Iranian Precision Weapon Vision Expands to Hezbollah’s Short-Range Rockets,” Alma Research and Education Center, https://israel-alma.org/2024/02/18/the-iranian-precision-weapon-vision-expands-to-hezbollahs-short-range-rockets/

Robert Satloff, “From War to Peace in the Middle East? Observations from a Regional Tour,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 23, 2024, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/war-peace-middle-east-observations-regional-tour

David Schenker, “Leaving Iraq May Be Washington’s Wisest Choice,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 26, 2024, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/leaving-iraq-may-be-washingtons-wisest-choice

David Schenker, “Mideast Failure Leads Biden Back to Trump Policies,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 14, 2024, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/mideast-failure-leads-biden-back-trump-policies

Barak Seener, ““Unfreezing the Abraham Accords: A New Transatlantic Strategy for Greater Peace, Stability and Integration in the Middle East,” Henry Jackson Society, 2024, https://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Unfreezing-the-Abraham-Accords-by-Barak-Seener.pdf

Avraham Shalev, “The Legality of the Israeli Buffer Zone in Gaza,” Kohelet Policy Forum, February 20, 2024, https://en.kohelet.org.il/publication/the-legality-of-the-israeli-buffer-zone-in-the-gaza-strip

Chen Shalita, “The Physicians of October 7: ‘’One Day, We’ll All Break Down. Now is Not the Time’” Shomrim, February 1, 2024 https://www.shomrim.news/eng/the-physicians-of-october-7

Gabi Siboni, “Israel Must Go Ahead with an Operation in Rafah,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, February 22, 2024, https://jiss.org.il/en/siboni-israel-must-go-ahead-with-an-operation-in-rafah/

Asya Sigelman, “Academia’s Double Standard on Rape,” City Journal, February 6, 2024, https://www.city-journal.org/article/academias-double-standard-on-rape

Brian Stewart, “Broken Covenant,” Quillette, February 27, 2024, https://quillette.com/2024/02/28/broken-covenant/

Ksenia Svetlova, “The Danger of Failed States Surrounding Israel,” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, February 2024, https://jstribune.com/svetlova-the-danger-of-failed-states-surrounding-israel/

U.N. Watch, “Report: UN Silent on Displaced Israelis,” February 19, 2024, https://unwatch.org/report-un-silent-on-israeli-idps/

Michael Young, “Hezbollah’s Unity Strategy Is Posing Problems for the Party,” The National News, February 27, 2024, https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comment/2024/02/28/a-certain-unity-strategy-of-hezbollah-is-posing-problems-for-the-party/

Yoav Zitun, Lior Ben Ari, Israel Moskowitz, Yair Kraus, “Israel Strikes Deep Inside Lebanon for First Time Since Start of War,” Ynet, February 26, 2024, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1eke11cnp#autoplay

Yoav Zitun, “Hamas Elite Commander Surrenders in Tunnel: ‘We Decided Not to Fight and Waited for the IDF,’” Ynet, February 08, 2024, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r133pvgjt


#131 Contemporary Readings January 2024 – Including Israel-Hamas War

February 1, 2024

Khaled Abu Toameh, “Is Hamas Waging a Smear Campaign against Egypt?” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 21, 2024. https://jcpa.org/is-hamas-waging-a-smear-campaign-against-egypt/

Lior Ben-Ari, “Abraham Accords Hold Steady amid Gaza War Turmoil,” Ynet, January 9, 2024. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bja2d9q006?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=internal

Yoni Ben Menachem, “Egypt Fears the Strengthening of the “Muslim Brotherhood” Movement,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 28, 2024. https://jcpa.org/egypt-fears-the-strengthening-of-the-muslim-brotherhood-movement/

Yoni Ben Menachem, “Yahya Sinwar’s Exorbitant Demands,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 21, 2024. https://jcpa.org/yahya-sinwars-exorbitant-demands/

Patrick Clawson, “Tehran Makes Gains, But Concerns Persist About Regime Vulnerability,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 30, 2024.  https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/tehran-makes-gains-concerns-persist-about-regime-vulnerability

Amichai Cohen, “Explainer: South Africa’s Case Against Israel at the International Court of Justice,” Israel Democracy Institute, January 10, 2024. https://en.idi.org.il/experts/1491

Raphael S. Cohen, “Netanyahu May Be Standing in the Way of a Two-State Solution. But He’s Far From Alone,” The Rand Corporation, January 22, 2024. https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2024/01/netanyahu-may-be-standing-in-the-way-of-a-two-state-solution.html

Stephane Cohen, Orna Mizrahi, “The Political Vacuum in Lebanon and the Fighting in the North,” Institute for National Security Studies, January 28, 2024. https://www.inss.org.il/social_media/the-political-vacuum-in-lebanon-and-the-fighting-in-the-north/

Geoffrey S. Corn, “‘Rules of War’ are Complicated, not only in Gaza,” Jewish Institute for National Security of America, January 9, 2024. https://jinsa.org/rule-of-war-complicated-corn-jan9/

Ari Cicurel, “Strikes Against the Houthis Should Not Be a One-Off,” Jewish Institute for National Security of America, January 12, 2024. https://jinsa.org/jinsa_report/strikes-against-the-houthis-should-not-be-a-one-off/

Deborah Danan, “Oct. 7 Was Worse Than a Terror Attack. It Was a Pogrom,” Tablet, January 24, 2024. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/hamas-palestinians-pogrom-israel

Udi Dekel, “To Meet the War’s Objectives, Controlling Northern Gaza is Essential,”  Institute for National Security Studies, January 25, 2024. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/north-gaza/

“Documents Brought Back From the Gaza Strip Indicate That Hamas Premeditated Its Atrocities Against Israelis and to Kidnap and Maltreat Them,” Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, January 20, 2024. https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/documents-brought-back-from-the-gaza-strip-indicate-that-hamas-premeditated-its-atrocities-against-israelis-and-to-kidnap-and-maltreat-them/

Michael Doran, Can Kasapoğlu & Jonathan Schachter, “Three Things about the Israel-Hamas War,” Hudson Institute, January 25, 2024. https://www.hudson.org/defense-strategy/three-things-about-israel-hamas-war-michael-doran-can-kasapoglu-jonathan-schachter-january-25-2024

Gabriel Epstein, “How Hamas Manipulates Gaza Fatality Numbers,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 25, 2024. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-hamas-manipulates-gaza-fatality-numbers-examining-male-undercount-and-other#:~:text=In%20this%20Policy%20Note%2C%20Gabriel,of%20men%20and%20militants%20killed.

Emanuel Fabian, “IDF Says It Has Killed More Than 9,000 Hamas Operatives in Gaza Since Start of War,” Times of Israel, January 14, 2024. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-it-has-killed-more-than-9000-hamas-operatives-in-gaza-since-start-of-war/

Seth J. Frantzman, “Comparing Gaza with Mosul,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, January 2024. https://jstribune.com/frantzman-comparing-gaza-with-mosul/

Matti Friedman, “What If the Real War in Israel Hasn’t Even Started?” The Free Press, January 28, 2024. https://www.thefp.com/p/matti-friedman-israel-hezbollah-war

Nimrod Goren, Michael Harari, “What Does Israel Want to See Come Out of US Mediation Efforts on Israel-Lebanon?” The Middle East Institute, January 26, 2024. https://www.mei.edu/publications/what-does-israel-want-see-come-out-us-mediation-efforts-israel-lebanon

Efraim Inbar, “What Can We Learn So Far From the War on Hamas?” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, January 24, 2024. https://jiss.org.il/en/inbar-what-can-we-learn-so-far-from-the-war-on-hamas/

Avi Issacharoff, “With Our Boots on Hamas’ Neck, We Can’t Quit Now,” Ynet, January 25, 2024. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bj00zo515t#autoplay

“Military Admin Then Int’l Coalition Floated as ‘Day After Hamas’ Plan, Jewish News Syndicate, January 31, 2024. https://www.jns.org/military-admin-then-intl-coalition-floated-as-day-after-plan/

Ariel Kahana, “Make UNRWA Go Away,” Jewish News Syndicate, January 31, 2024.  https://www.jns.org/make-unrwa-go-away/

Charlotte Kleberg, “The Search for a High Seas Solution,” The Rand Corporation, January 17, 2024. https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2024/01/the-search-for-a-high-seas-solution.html

Yaakov Lappin, “Hezbollah’s Attack On IAF Base Was A Wake-up Call,” Jewish News Syndicate, January 9, 2024. https://www.jns.org/hezbollahs-attack-on-iaf-base-was-a-wake-up-call/

Eran Lerman, “Even Before the Guns Fall Silent: Israel’s Political Debates Reawaken,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, January 2024. https://jstribune.com/lerman-israels-political-debates-reawaken/

Matthew Levitt, “How to Keep Hamas From Bouncing Back,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 9, 2024. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-keep-hamas-bouncing-back

Matthew Levitt, “For All That Changed, Hamas Is Still Hamas,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 22, 2024. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/all-changed-hamas-still-hamas

David Makovsky, “Domestic Disagreements Limit Netanyahu’s Options with Washington,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 19, 2024. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/domestic-disagreements-limit-netanyahus-options-washington

Hillel C. Neuer, “The UN’s Terrorism Teachers,”  The Free Press, January 28, 2024. https://www.thefp.com/p/the-united-nations-terrorism-teachers

Assaf Orion, “The Red-Hot Blue Line,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 11, 2024. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/red-hot-blue-line

Gianluca Pacciani, “Hamas Bigwig Rejects 2-State Solution, Says Oct. 7 ‘Revived Dream to Free Palestine,” Times of Israel, January 23, 2024. https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-bigwig-rejects-2-state-solution-says-oct-7-revived-dream-to-free-palestine/

Daniel Pipes, “Making Sense of the Hamas-Israel War,” Middle East Forum Webinar, January 15, 2024. https://www.meforum.org/65469/daniel-pipes-making-sense-of-the-hamas-israel-war

Yohanan Plesner, “Can a Unified Israel Rise From the Ashes of the Hamas War?” Israel Democracy Institute, January 7, 2024. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/52282

Jane Prinsley, “Hamas Booby-Trapped Dead Bodies with Explosives Say Israeli First Responders,” The Jewish Chronicle, January 31, 2024. https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/hamas-booby-trapped-dead-bodies-with-explosives-say-israeli-first-responders-lsxjecx8

David Rose, “Iran s at the Heart of Middle East’s Chaos: Here’s What UK Can Do About It,” The Jewish Chronicle, January 26, 2024. https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/iran-is-at-the-heart-of-middle-easts-chaos-heres-what-uk-can-do-about-it-g70qc7gf

Armin Rosen, “Israel’s Man in Black,” Tablet, January 8, 2024. https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/yoav-gallant-profile-armin-rosen

Nicholas Rostow, “Legal Briefing: Israel and the ICJ,” Jewish Policy Center, January 26, 2024. https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2024/01/26/legal-briefing-israel-and-the-icj/

Shay Shabtai, “How Can Israel Complete Its Victory in the Swords of Iron War?” BESA Center January 25, 2024. https://besacenter.org/how-can-israel-complete-its-victory-in-the-swords-of-iron-war/

Shaul Shay and Jacob Rosen Koenigsbuch, “Jordan and the Iranian Affiliates Drug Offensive,” Research Institute for European and American Studies, January 28, 2024. https://rieas.gr/researchareas/editorial/4845-jordan-and-the-iranian-affiliates-drug-offensive

Robert Silverman, “Let Israel Finish the Job,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, January 2024. https://jstribune.com/silverman-let-israel-finish-the-job/

Jay Solomon, “Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Deployed in Yemen,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 15, 2024. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/irans-revolutionary-guard-deployed-yemen

Alexandra Stark, “What’s Behind the Surge in Attacks by Yemen’s Houthis,” The Rand Corporation, January 11, 2024. https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2024/01/whats-behind-the-surge-in-attacks-by-yemens-houthis.html

Yoni Tobin, “Alleged UNRWA Involvement in 10/7 Attack Highlights Dangers of Agency,” Jewish Institute for National Security of America, January 30, 2024. https://jinsa.org/jinsa_report/alleged-unrwa-involvement-in-10-7-attack-highlights-dangers-of-agency/

Irina Tsukerman, “The Record of Palestinian Unity Governments,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, January 2024. https://jstribune.com/tsukerman-the-record-of-palestinian-unity-governments/

Clint Van Winkle, “UNRWA Is a ‘Horror Show’ With Jew-Hatred at Its Core, House Committee Is Told,” The Media Line, January 31, 2024. https://themedialine.org/top-stories/unrwa-is-a-horror-show-with-jew-hatred-at-its-core-house-committee-is-told/

Amos Yadlin, “Gazan Futures: After Operation Guardians of the Wall,” Fathom Journal, June 2021. https://fathomjournal.org/gazan-futures-after-operation-guardians-of-the-wall/

Dov S. Zakheim, “Self-Deterrence Will Not Stop the Houthis or Their Iranian Suppliers,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, January 2024. https://jstribune.com/zakheim-self-deterrence-will-not-stop-the-houthis/

Sarit Zehavi, “Hezbollah Wrote the Plan that Hamas Executed,” Alma Research and Education Center, January 29, 2024. https://israel-alma.org/2024/01/29/hezbollah-wrote-the-plan-that-hamas-executed/


#130 Contemporary Readings December 2023 – including Israel-Hamas War

January 6, 2024

Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education

Adam Asad and Yaron Kaplan, “Most Arab Israelis: October 7 Attack Does Not Reflect Islamic, Palestinian, or Arab Society Values,” Israel Democracy Institute, December 26, 2023. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/52016

Tal Avraham and Carmit Valensi, “Syria and the Israel-Hamas War: Symbolic Support, Short of Escalation,” Institute for National Security Studies, December 24, 2023. https://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/No.-1803.pdf

Tal Be’eri, “Hamas Lebanon is a ticking time bomb,” Alma Research and Education Center, December 6, 2023. https://israel-alma.org/2023/12/06/hamas-lebanon-is-a-ticking-time-bomb/

Lenny Ben-David, “A Coordinated Media Attack on Israel by the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 28, 2023.https://jcpa.org/article/a-coordinated-media-attack-on-israel-by-the-new-york-times-washington-post-and-cnn/

Lenny Ben-David, “Qatar’s Role in Undermining Israel’s Legitimacy on U.S. University Campuses,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 21, 2023. https://jcpa.org/article/qatars-role-in-undermining-israels-legitimacy-on-u-s-university-campuses/

Ron Ben-Yishay, “Hamas’ Last Stand in Shijaiyah Proves Costly for IDF,” Ynet, December 13, 2023. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkrlzgwla

Yoni Ben-Menachem, “Securing the ‘Philadelphi Corridor’: A Strategic Imperative for Israel,” 

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 28, 2023. https://jcpa.org/securing-the-philadelphi-corridor-a-strategic-imperative-for-israel/

Brian Carter, “The Order of Battle of Hamas’ Izz al Din al Qassem Brigades,” Institute for the Study of War, December 22, 2023.  https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/order-battle-hamas%E2%80%99-izz-al-din-al-qassem-brigades

Amichai Cohen and Adaya Kisos, “Israel’s War in Gaza and International Law,” Israel Democracy Institute, December 25, 2023. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/51994

Ari Cicurel, “Seventh U.S. Strike Amid Over 100 Iran-backed Attacks in Iraq and Syria,” Jewish Institute for National Security of America, December 27, 2023. https://jinsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Seventh-U.S.-Strike-Amid-Over-100-Iran-backed-Attacks-NatSec-Brief-12-27-23-5.pdf

Udi Dekel, “Palestinian Authority, Yes or No: Israel Needs Political Wisdom,” Institute for National Security Studies, December 21, 2023. https://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/No.-1802.pdf

Michael Doran, Can Kasapoğlu, Jonathan Schachter, and Zineb Riboua, “Three Things about the Israel-Hamas War,” Hudson Institute, December 5, 2023.  https://www.hudson.org/terrorism/three-things-about-israel-hamas-war-michael-doran-can-kasapoglu-jonathan-schachter-december-5-2023

Chen Druyan Feldman and Arkady Mil-Man, “Russia’s ‘New World Order’ and the Israel-Hamas War,” Institute for National Security Studies, December 18, 2023. https://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/No.-1801.pdf

Chuck Freilich and Eldad Shavit, “The US, Israel, and the Ongoing War in Gaza,” Institute for National Security Studies, December 12, 2023.  https://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/No.-1798.pdf

Eado Hecht, “The Gaza Terror Offensive,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, December 14-24, 2023.https://besacenter.org/the-gaza-terror-offensive-october-7-8-2023/

Efraim Inbar, “What Can We Learn So Far from the War on Hamas?” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, December 24, 2023. https://jiss.org.il/en/inbar-what-can-we-learn-so-far-from-the-war-on-hamas/

Avi Issacharoff, “Israel Must Fight Gaza War to the End,” Ynet, December 17, 2023. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk9johh8a?utm_source=https://www.ynetnews.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=general_share

“Iran: Hamas’s Oct. 7 Massacre Was Response to 2020 Soleimani Killing,” Jewish News Syndicate, December 27, 2023. https://www.jns.org/iran-hamass-oct-7-massacre-was-response-to-2020-soleimani-killing/

Ron Kampeas, “The Big Issues Dividing the US and Israel as the Gaza War Bleeds into 2024,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 29, 2023. 

Dania Koleilat Khatib, “Can Mansour Abbas Convince Palestinian Factions to Lay Down Their Arms?” Arab News, December 7, 2023. https://www.arabnews.com/node/2421806

Nadim Koteich, “Hamas Could End… Then What?,” al-Sharq al-Aswat, December 26, 2023. https://english.aawsat.com/opinion/4751346-hamas-could-end-then-what

Kobi Michael and Gabi Siboni, “On the Goals of the War: Between National Security and Personal Security,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, December 12, 2023.  https://jiss.org.il/en/michael-siboni-on-the-goals-of-the-war/

Yaakov Lappin, “IDF Chief: We’ll Reach Hamas Leaders ‘Whether It Takes a Week or Months,’” Jewish News Syndicate, December 26, 2023. https://www.jns.org/idf-chief-well-reach-hamas-leaders-whether-it-takes-a-week-or-months/

Eran Lerman, “Even Amidst the War in Gaza, Iran’s Nuclear Project Must Remain Uppermost on Israel’s Strategic Agenda,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, December 12, 2023. https://jiss.org.il/en/lerman-irans-nuclear-project-must-remain-uppermost/

Lorena Atiyas-Lvovsky, “The Threat to Maritime Security in the Red Sea,” International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, December 4, 2023. https://ict.org.il/the-threat-to-maritime-security-in-the-red-sea/

“Hamas Exploitation of Hospitals for Military-Terrorist Purposes: Shifa Hospital as a Test Case,”  Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, December 12, 2023. https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/hamas-exploitation-of-hospitals-for-military-terrorist-purposes-shifa-hospital-as-a-test-case/

“Rifts between Gazan Civilians and the Hamas Leadership, and Increasing Public Criticism of the Organization,” Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, December 13, 2023.  https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/rifts-between-gazan-civilians-and-the-hamas-leadership-and-increasing-public-criticism-of-the-organization/

Michael Milshtein, “Why is It So Difficult for Israel to Decipher Hamas?” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, December 2023.  https://jstribune.com/milsthein-why-is-it-so-difficult-for-israel-to-decipher-hamas/

Neomi Neumann, “Why a West Bank Front Has Not Opened So Far,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 13, 2023. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/why-west-bank-front-has-not-opened-so-far

Michalis Sarlis, “Turkey’s Regional Policy in the Shadow of the Gaza War,”

Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, December 14, 2023.  https://dayan.org/content/turkeys-regional-policy-shadow-gaza-war

Institute forNational Security Studies 

Robert Satloff, Dennis Ross, David Makovsky, “Israel’s War Aims and the Principles of a Post-Hamas Administration in Gaza,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 17, 2023. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israels-war-aims-and-principles-post-hamas-administration-gaza

Jonathan Schanzer, “Egypt’s Gaza Dilemma,” Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, December 26, 2023. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/12/26/egypts-gaza-dilemma/

Ksenia Svetlova, “Why Is Israel Unable to Explain the War in Gaza to the World?” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, December 2023. https://jstribune.com/svetlova-why-is-israel-unable-to-explain-the-war-in-gaza-to-the-world/

Ehud Yaari and Matthew Levitt, “Growing Internal Tensions Between Hamas Leaders,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 21, 2023. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/growing-internal-tensions-between-hamas-leaders

Ben-Dror Yemeni, “The Free World Must Recognize ‘Intellectuals’ Have Betrayed The Truth,” Ynet, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjtopfdhp

Ben-Dror Yemeni, “Europe Is Terrified and Kowtows to Hamas,” Ynet, December 27, 2023, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjef8ckvp

Sarit Zehavi and Tal Be’eri, “The Northern Arena–Position Paper and Key Insights So far,” Alma Research and Education Center, December 17, 2023. https://israel-alma.org/2023/12/17/the-northern-arena-position-paper-and-key-insights-so-far/


#129 Contemporary Readings November 2023 – including Israel-Hamas War

November 29, 2023

Additional readings and resources on the war may be found here.

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

Jon Alterman, “Israel Could Lose,” Center for Strategic & International Studies, November 7, 2023. https://www.csis.org/analysis/israel-could-lose 

Emil Avdaliani, “For China and Russia, the Gaza War May Be a Blessing in Disguise,” Stimson Center, November 9, 2023. https://www.stimson.org/2023/for-china-and-russia-the-gaza-war-may-be-a-blessing-in-disguise/ 

Zvi Bar-El, “Analysis | Fearing for Hezbollah’s Image, Nasrallah’s in No Rush to Resume Hostilities With Israel,” Ha’aretz, November 28, 2023. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-28/ty-article/.premium/fearing-for-hezbollahs-image-nasrallahs-in-no-rush-to-resume-hostilities-with-israel/0000018c-1659-dd03-a7ff-be79f8270000 

Roni Ben Canaan and Hadas Ziv, “Gender-Based Violence as a Weapon of War during the October 7 Hamas Attacks,” Physicians for Human Rights, November 26, 2023. https://www.phr.org.il/en/gender-based-violence-eng/

Yonah Jeremy Bob, “Will Mossad be allowed to assassinate Hamas leaders in Qatar? – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, November 27, 2023. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-775403 

Christina Bouri and Diana Roy, “The Israel-Hamas War: The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza,” Council on Foreign Relations, November 14, 2023. https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/israel-hamas-war-humanitarian-crisis-gaza 

Nabih Bulos, Tracy Wilkinson, Laura King, “News Analysis: A temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war does little to solve deep dilemmas on all sides,” Los Angeles Times, November 24, 2023. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-11-24/a-temporary-ceasefire-in-the-israel-hamas-war-does-little-to-solve-deep-dilemmas-on-all-sides 

Tommaso Canetta, “EDMO – Preliminary analysis of the Israel/Hamas conflict-related disinformation,” European Digital Media Observatory, October 17, 2023. https://edmo.eu/2023/10/17/edmo-preliminary-analysis-of-the-israel-hamas-conflict-related-disinformation/ 

Ben Caspit, “Hamas escape: How Netanyahu had the chance to kill Yahya Sinwar six times,” Jerusalem Post, November 28, 2023. https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/gaza-news/article-775527 

Center for Israel Education, “A Short History of Hamas,” Center for Israel Education, October 23, 2023. https://israeled.org/a-short-history-of-hamas/ 

Center for Israel Education, “Annotated Hamas Bibliography –articles in depth assessments organization, operations, objectives, and regional relations – most recent to first listings,” Center for Israel Education, November 29, 2023. https://israeled.org/annotated-hamas-bibliography-in-depth-assessments-organization-operations-objectives-and-regional-relations/ 

Center for Israel Education, “Hamas Charter totally rejects Israel and Zionism – 1988,” Center for Israel Education, October 23, 2023. https://israeled.org/hamas-charter-totally-rejects-israel-and-zionism/ 

Center for Israel Education, “Hamas: A Document of General Principles & Policie,” Center for Israel Education, October 16, 2023. https://israeled.org/resources/documents/hamas-a-document-of-general-principles-policies/ 

Center for Israel Education, “Hamas’ political thought and stances in light of the Arab uprisings,” Center for Israel Education, November 15, 2023. https://israeled.org/resources/documents/hamas-political-thought-and-stances-in-light-of-the-arab-uprisings/ 

Center for Israel Education, “International Voices Urging the Recognition of Hamas as a Legitimate Political Actor, 2003-2018,” Center for Israel Education, November 11, 2023. https://israeled.org/international-voices-urging-the-recognition-of-hamas-as-a-legitimate-political-actor/ 

Center for Israel Education, “Jimmy Carter’s Hamas Decade of Embrace,” Center for Israel Education, October 29, 2023. https://israeled.org/jimmy-carters-hamas-decade-of-embrace/ 

Center for Israel Education, “Maps of the Middle East and the Gaza Strip,” Center for Israel Education, November 15, 2023. https://israeled.org/maps-of-the-middle-east-and-the-gaza-strip/  

Center for Israel Education, “Quotations from Hamas Sources Expressing Hatred For Zionism, Israel and Jews, 1988-2014,” Center for Israel Education, October 13, 2023. https://israeled.org/resources/documents/quotations-from-hamas-sources-expressing-hatred-for-zionism-israel-and-jews-1988-2014/ 

Center for Israel Education, “Suggested Videos on the Hamas-Israel War,” Center for Israel Education, November 15, 2023. https://israeled.org/suggested-videos-on-the-hamas-israel-war/ 

Center for Israel Education, “Timeline – Hamas-Israel Relations with events, statements and previous clashes, 1988 – present,” Center for Israel Education, October 14, 2023. https://israeled.org/timeline-hamas-israel-relations-with-events-statements-and-previous-clashes-1988-present/ 

Center for Israel Education, “Understanding Hamas” (compilation), Center for Israel Education, November 15, 2023. https://israeled.org/israel-hamas-war/understanding-hamas/ 

Center for Israel Education’s webinar with Yaron Ayalon and Jonathan Rynhold, “Israel’s 9/11 — The October 2023 Hamas Attack on Israel,” Center for Israel Education, October 11, 2023. https://israeled.org/israels-9-11-the-october-2023-hamas-attack-on-israel/ 

Center for Israel Education’s webinar with Meir Litvak, Sarah Feuer, Amnon Cavari, “Israel’s 9/11 — Domestic Reactions, Regional Motivations, International Responses,” Center for Israel Education, October 18, 2023. https://israeled.org/israels-9-11-domestic-reactions-regional-motivations-international-responses/ 

Center for Israel Education’s webinar with Steven Cook, Nachman Shai, David Menashri and Harel Chorev, “Israel’s 9/11 — Local, Regional and International Responses: Political Considerations, Public Reactions, and Military Replies,” Center for Israel Education, October 25, 2023. https://israeled.org/israels-9-11-local-regional-and-international-responses-political-considerations-public-reactions-and-military-replies/ 

Center for Israel Education’s webinar with Meir Litvak, Doron Shultziner and Jonathan Schanzer, “Israel’s 9/11 — Regional Transformations: Great Power Chess and Israeli Volunteerism,” Center for Israel Education, November 1, 2023. https://israeled.org/israels-9-11-regional-transformations-great-power-chess-and-israeli-volunteerism/  

Center for Israel Education’s webinar with Michael Eisenstadt, Itamar Rabinovich and Asher Susser, “Israel’s 9/11 — the Hamas-Israel War: Into the Second Month,” Center for Israel Education, November 9, 2023. https://israeled.org/israels-9-11-the-hamas-israel-war-into-the-second-month/ 

Center for Israel Education’s webinar with Sarah Feuer, Eran Lerman and Matthew Levitt, “Israel’s 9/11 — Hamas and Unrest on Israel’s Border,” Center for Israel Education, November 15, 2023. https://israeled.org/israels-9-11-hamas-and-unrest-on-israels-border/ 

Center for Israel Education’s webinar with Alan Makovsky, Yitzhak Reiter and Shai Feldman, “Israel’s 9/11 — Hamas-Israel War: Israeli Border Regions, Islam and Turkey,” Center for Israel Education, November 22, 2023. https://israeled.org/israels-9-11-hamas-israel-war-israeli-border-regions-islam-and-turkey/ 

Center for Israel Education’s webinar with Meir Litvak, Steven Bayme and Mark Heller, “Israel’s 9/11 — A Pause in the War – Unknown Paths Forward: Strategic Considerations and Directions of Anti-Semitism,” Center for Israel Education, November 29, 2023. [Link to come.]

Stephen Cook interviewed by Gabrielle Sierra, “Understanding the U.S. Role in the Israel-Hamas War” (podcast and transcript), Council on Foreign Relations, November 22, 2023. https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/understanding-us-role-israel-hamas-war 

Ami Rojkes Dombe, “Analysis | Mossad Will Face Difficulties Eliminating Hamas Senior Members Abroad,” Israel Defense, November 28, 2023. https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/60437 

Thomas Friedman, “The Rescuers,” New York Times, November 22, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/opinion/israel-palestinians-arabs.html 

Hanin Ghaddar and Ahmad Sharawi, “Mapping Clashes Along the Israel-Lebanon Border,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October-November 2023. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/mapping-clashes-along-israel-lebanon-border 

Yoel Guzansky and Ilan Zalayat, “Indispensable Qatar?,” Institute for National Security Studies, November 27, 2023. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/qatar-gaza/ 

Yossi Klein Halevi, “For Israel, a War Unlike Any Other,” Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2023.  https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/for-israel-a-war-unlike-any-other-b8160908 and https://www.facebook.com/YossiKleinHalevi/posts/pfbid036WgjgbY7ydavQ4ELNE9ALdaomL9fSAYNCQbDjHX5K4ZwHMDTuudiLocGJjDqsZcDl  

Sabina Henneberg and Amine Ghoulidi, “Balancing U.S. Relations in North Africa Without Undermining the Abraham Accords,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 22, 2023. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/balancing-us-relations-north-africa-without-undermining-abraham-accords 

Tamar Hermann and Or Anabi, “Overwhelming Majority of Jewish and Arab Israelis: The Release of all Hostages is a Goal of Importance,” Israel Democracy Institute, November 24, 2023. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/51616 

Maurice Hirsch, “A New Poll of Palestinians: Supporting Terror and Rejecting Peace,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, November 22, 2023. https://jcpa.org/a-new-poll-of-palestinians-supporting-terror-and-rejecting-peace/ 

Honest Reporting staff, “Broken Borders: AP & Reuters Pictures of Hamas Atrocities Raise Ethical Questions,” Honest Reporting, November 8, 2023. https://honestreporting.com/photographers-without-borders-ap-reuters-pictures-of-hamas-atrocities-raise-ethical-questions/ 

IMPACT-se staff, “Education for Terrorism in Palestinian Schools: 2023 Israel-Hamas War,” IMPACT-se, November 2023. https://www.impact-se.org/wp-content/uploads/Education-for-Terrorism-in-Palestinian-Schools.pdf   

Steve Inskeep, “Israel’s lack of a strategy is a strategy,” NPR, November 19, 2023. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/19/1213797712/israels-lack-of-a-strategy-is-the-strategy 

Brian Michael Jenkins, “The Israel-Hamas War Has Upended the Terrorist Threat Matrix,” RAND Corporation/The Hill, November 22, 2023. https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2023/11/the-israel-hamas-war-has-upended-the-terrorist-threat.html 

Moran Kandelshtein-Haina, “The War in Gaza: Who is Authorized to Approve a Deal for the Return of the Hostages in Exchange for the Release of Palestinian Prisoners?,” Israeli Democracy Institute, November 13, 2023. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/51475 

Mandi Kogosowski, “Israel Files 14,600 Requests to Remove Malicious Social Media Content Since October 7th,” Israel Defense, November 12, 2023. https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/60290 

Martin Kramer, “The Salience of Islamic Antisemitism,” Institute of Jewish Affairs, October 2, 1995. https://martinkramer.org/reader/archives/the-salience-of-islamic-antisemitism/ 

Zoran Kusovac, “Analysis: Lessons from Day One of truce in Gaza,” Aljazeera, November 25, 2023. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/25/analysis-lessons-from-day-one-of-truce-in-gaza 

Zoran Kusovac, “Analysis: Can the US, Israel stop Yemen’s Houthis from seizing more ships?,” Aljazeera, November 20, 2023. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/20/analysis-can-the-us-and-israel-stop-the-houthis-from-seizing-more-ships 

Mark Landler, “Viewed Warily by Democrats, a Netanyahu Ally Is a Key Conduit to U.S.,” New York Times, November 7, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/world/middleeast/netanyahu-dermer-israel-war.html

Morr Link, “The Gaza War and Israel-Morocco Relations: The Common Interests Need Bolstering,” Institute for National Security Studies, November 28, 2023. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/morocco-war/ 

Meir Litvak, “The Islamization of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Case of Hamas,” Center for Israel Education/ResearchGate, January 1998. https://israeled.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Litwak-The_Islamization_of_the_Palestinian-Israeli_Conflict.pdf  

Devorah Margolin and Matthew Levitt, “The Road to October 7: Hamas’ Long Game, Clarified,” Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point, October-November 2023. https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-road-to-october-7-hamas-long-game-clarified/ 

MEMRI staff, “Hamas Leader Abroad Khaled Mash’al: Our Tunnels And Weapons Are Still Intact; We Can Maneuver And Fire Rockets; We Follow The Example Of The Prophet, Who Preached The Conquest Of Byzantium Even As He Was Besieged In Medina; I Advise Western Leaders To Consider The Phase After Israel, Not After Hamas,” Middle East Media Research Institute, November 27, 2023.  https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-leader-abroad-khaled-mashal-our-tunnels-and-weapons-are-still-intact-we-can-maneuver 

John Merriam, “Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium– Inside IDF Targeting,” Lieber Institute, October 20, 2023. https://lieber.westpoint.edu/inside-idf-targeting/  

Greg Miller, “Zim container ships divert as threat to Israel-linked vessels mounts,” Freight Waves, November 27, 2023. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/zim-container-ship-diverts-as-threat-to-israel-linked-vessels-mounts 

Michael Oren, “Israel’s choice: Body or soul,” Times of Israel, November 27, 2023. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-choice-body-or-soul 

Michael Oren, “The Day After,” SAPIR Journal, October-November 2023. https://sapirjournal.org/war-in-israel/2023/11/the-day-after/ 

Joe Parkinson, “Thailand’s Hostage Crisis in Gaza Takes a Shocking Turn: ‘I’m Not Dead Yet!,’ MSN/Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2023. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/thailand-s-hostage-crisis-in-gaza-takes-a-shocking-turn-i-m-not-dead-yet/ar-AA1kJ6FI 

PCPSR Survey Research Unit, “Settler Terrorism is the Biggest Threat to West Bank Residents,” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, November 12, 2023. https://pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/WB%20Security%20Poll_on%20settlers%20violence_12%20Nov%202023_ENGLISH.pdf  

Haviv Rettig Gur, “Hostage deal, even if it fails, shows Hamas’s desperation,” Times of Israel, November 23, 2023. https://www.timesofisrael.com/hostage-deal-even-if-it-fails-shows-hamass-desperation/ 

Paul Ronzheimer and Claudia Chiappa, “Netanyahu: Don’t accuse me of boosting Hamas with Qatari money,” Politico, November 26, 2023. https://www.politico.eu/article/benjamin-netanyahu-hamas-qatar-money-war-israel-gaza-palestine/ 

Shira Rubin and Joby Warrick, “Hamas envisioned deeper attacks, aiming to provoke an Israeli war,” Washington Post, November 13, 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/11/12/hamas-planning-terror-gaza-israel/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjk5NzY1MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzAxMTQ3NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTk3NjUyMDAsImp0aSI6IjVmNWU2YWVhLTRlN2YtNDQ0My1hNmM2LTczYTYzZWI3NjRlZiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDIzLzExLzEyL2hhbWFzLXBsYW5uaW5nLXRlcnJvci1nYXphLWlzcmFlbC8ifQ.U6GgB9eUNpnFPb-EhpzUpKXU6-Aa-MvYk9ZfvLg-eCg&fbclid=IwAR3VG93UQLBSnI5QUV-WRXRxcKHs29f3SSSCM0Wfg2UvSA6MAJS26zHp7GM  

Shaked Sadeh, “Israel-Hamas war: Hezbollah’s Nasrallah plead for ceasefire in last speech,” Jerusalem Post, November 28, 2023. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-774787 

Michael Schaffer, “The Real Debate Over Israel Is Taking Place Behind Closed Doors,” Politico, November 10, 2023. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/10/schaffer-israel-dissent-biden-00126405 

Miriam Schler, “The obscene betrayal of Israelis who survived – and didn’t survive – rape,” Times of Israel, November 20, 2023. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-obscene-betrayal-of-israelis-who-survived-and-didnt-survive-rape/ 

Eric Schmitt, Ronen Bergman and Adam Goldman, “Is Israel’s Military Strategy to Eradicate Hamas Working?,” New York Times, November 18, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-war-strategy.html 

Khalil Shikaki, “Palestinian Future after the Israeli Reoccupation of the Gaza Strip,” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, November 2023. https://pcpsr.org/en/node/959 

Barbara Slavin, “The Gaza War Will Not Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Stimson Center, October 20, 2023. https://www.stimson.org/2023/the-gaza-war-will-not-solve-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/  

Kenneth Stein, “Anti-Israel Activism in American Universities I: The Advent of Anti-Israel Sentiment on Campus,” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, November 2023. https://jstribune.com/stein-anti-israel-activism-in-american-universities/ 

Kenneth Stein, “Anti-Israel Activism in American Universities II: Middle Eastern Studies and Israel Studies,” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, November 2023. https://jstribune.com/stein-anti-israel-activism-in-american-universities-ii/ 

Ksenia Svetlova, “The primary victims of Hamas are Palestinian,” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, November 2023. https://jstribune.com/svetlova-the-primary-victims-of-hamas-are-palestinian/ 

Jacob Sweet, “The Israel-Palestine Debate, on TikTok,” The New Yorker, November 28, 2022. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-israel-palestine-debate-on-tiktok 

Benedict Vigers, “Palestinians in Gaza at Risk Before Israel-Hamas War,” Gallup, November 2, 2023. https://news.gallup.com/poll/513662/palestinians-gaza-risk-israel-hamas-war.aspx 

Bilal Wahab and Selin Uysal, “Will an Iraqi Front Open in the Hamas-Israel War?,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 21, 2023. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/will-iraqi-front-open-hamas-israel-war 

Tom Wilson and Elizabeth Howcroft, “Focus: New crypto front emerges in Israel’s militant financing fight,” Reuters, November 27, 2023. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/new-crypto-front-emerges-israels-militant-financing-fight-2023-11-27/ 

Patrick Wintour, “Corrupt, discredited: could a reformed Palestinian Authority run Gaza?,” The Guardian, November 27, 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/27/corrupt-discredited-could-a-reformed-palestinian-authority-run-gaza 

Nicholas Wu and Ursula Perano, “Activists wanted a Middle East cease-fire. They got something else from Dems.,” Politico, November 29, 2023. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/29/israel-cease-fire-democrats-00128958 

Xinua staff, “Israel’s Elbit to provide Canada’s air force with laser self-protection systems,” Xinua, November 28, 2023. https://english.news.cn/20231128/81d52f639406424f8f1f28d4f660ce58/c.html 

Jim Zanotti, “Israel: Major Issues and U.S. Relations,” Congressional Research Service, September 27, 2023. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44245/140 


#128 Contemporary Readings October 2023

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

Agencies, “Hezbollah-allied politician says Lebanon won’t initiate war with Israel,” Times of Israel, October 24, 2023. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hezbollah-allied-politician-says-lebanon-wont-initiate-war-with-isael/ 

Ali Ahmed, “Cost of neglecting conflict resolution in favour of conflict management is rather steep,” Deccan Herald, October 10, 2023, https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/cost-of-neglecting-conflict-resolution-in-favour-of-conflict-management-is-rather-steep-2719941  

Ghaith al-Omari, “How the Palestinian Authority Failed Its People,” Washington Institute, October 19, 2023. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-palestinian-authority-failed-its-people 

Galit Altstein, “Israel’s Economy Convulsed by the War With Hamas,” Bloomberg, October 30, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-10-30/israel-hamas-war-s-economic-shock-turkey-rates-egypt-pound-egp-black-market?srnd=undefined (register for free access)

Naama Barak, “100 Years of Photographs at Machane Yehuda Market,” Israel21c, July 23, 2023. https://www.israel21c.org/100-years-of-photographs-at-machane-yehuda-market 

Matt Berg, “Israel’s using widespread GPS tampering to deter Hezbollah’s missiles,” Politico, October 23, 2023. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/23/israels-gps-tampering-deter-hezbollahs-missiles-00123026 

Ronen Bergman, Mark Mazzetti and Maria Abi-Habib, “How Years of Israeli Failures on Hamas Led to a Devastating Attack,” New York Times, October 29, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/world/middleeast/israel-intelligence-hamas-attack.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share 

Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen and Jennifer Hansler, “Intelligence shows Iranian-backed militias are ready to ramp up their attacks against US forces in the Middle East,” CNN, October 23, 2023. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/23/politics/iranian-militias-israel-hamas/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1kO5zyRPEmX7_ALgjZUDdS9YHgBmbKYU8VZ1krSTaKsneKWVVvzl2Ht2Q 

Yonah Jeremy Bob, “Israel uses AI to uncover lost Yom Kippur War pages, 50 years on.” Jerusalem Post, September 7, 2023. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-757918 

Julian Borger and Sufian Taha, “Palestinian PM: we will not run Gaza without solution for West Bank,” The Guardian, October 29, 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/29/palestinian-pm-we-will-not-run-gaza-without-solution-for-west-bank 

Catherine Cleveland and David Pollock, “Polls Show Majority of Gazans Were Against Breaking Ceasefire; Hamas and Hezbollah Unpopular Among Key Arab Publics,” Washington Institute, October 10, 2023. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/polls-show-majority-gazans-were-against-breaking-ceasefire-hamas-and-hezbollah     

Isabel Debre, “Israeli arms quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh, to the dismay of region’s Armenians,” Associated Press, October 5, 2023. https://apnews.com/article/armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh-weapons-israel-6814437bcd744acc1c4df0409a74406c 

Steven Erlanger, “War Has Smashed Assumptions About Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” New York Times, October 23, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/world/europe/israeli-hamas-middle-east-implications.html 

David Folkenflik, “News outlets backtrack on Gaza blast after relying on Hamas as key source,” NPR, October 24, 2023. https://www.npr.org/2023/10/24/1208075395/israel-gaza-hospital-strike-media-nyt-apology 

Seth Frantzman, “Mystery customer pays $135m. for Israel’s Elbit to build ammo factory,” Jerusalem Post, October 29, 2023. https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/all-news/article-770678 

Adam Gabbatt, “‘This war is prophetically significant’: why US evangelical Christians support Israel,” The Guardian, October 30, 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/us-evangelical-christians-israel-hamas-war 

Alon Goldstein, “Col. Richard Kemp: When Israel’s biggest advocate is not even Israeli,” Ynet News, October 18, 2023. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sj3gl9s11p 

Yael Ingel, “Growing Up Overnight: The Teenagers of the Yom Kippur War,” National Library of Israel, October 5, 2023. https://blog.nli.org.il/en/yom_kippur_war_youth/?blm_aid=42105859  

Assaf Kamar, “Dairy farmers volunteer to save cows in Gaza border towns under fire,” Ynet News, October 24, 2023. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/bjfsv6nf6 

Michael Koplow, “Three Problems to Think About Now Rather Than Later,” Israel Policy Forum, October 16, 2023. https://israelpolicyforum.org/2023/10/16/three-problems-to-think-about-now-rather-than-later/ 

Jason Lange and Matt Spetalnick, “Exclusive: Americans want US to help get Gaza civilians out of harm’s way-Reuters/Ipsos poll,” Reuters, October 16, 2023. https://www.reuters.com/world/americans-want-us-help-get-gaza-civilians-out-harms-way-reutersipsos-2023-10-16/ 

Tovah Lazaroff, “US: Palestinian, Israeli women are silent heroines of quest for peace,” Jerusalem Post, October 4, 2023. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-761604 

Jay Loschky, “Palestinians Lack Faith in Biden, Two-State Solution,” Gallup, October 18, 2023. https://news.gallup.com/poll/512828/palestinians-lack-faith-biden-two-state-solution.aspx [data gathered prior to October 7 war]

Guy Lurie, “Special State of Emergency in Israel’s Court System,” Israel Democracy Institute, October 16, 2023. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/51115 

Guy Lurie, “Israel needs a strong supreme court now more than ever,” Israel Democracy Institute, October 16, 2023. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/51122 

Jennifer Medina and Lisa Lerer, “On Israel, Progressive Jews Feel Abandoned by Their Left-Wing Allies,” New York Times, October 20, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/us/politics/progressive-jews-united-states.html 

Ruth Michaelson and Sufian Taha, “‘Support our people’: growing frustration at Palestine’s leadership in West Bank,” The Guardian, October 18, 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/18/mahmoud-abbas-leadership-west-bank-palestine  

David Pollock, “More Israelis Optimistic Now Than Before Hamas Attack; 70% Say Hamas Must Go,” Washington Institute, October 27, 2023. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/more-israelis-optimistic-now-hamas-attack-70-say-hamas-must-go 

Alex Pomson and Wendy Rosov, “Reconsidering the ‘distance’ between Israel and the Diaspora,” eJewishPhilanthropy, October 30, 2023. https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/rosov-consulting-survey-diaspora-jews-israel/ (enter email address for access)

Itamar Rabinovich, “Israel’s 1973 October War: A 50-year perspective,” Brookings Institute, October 3, 2023. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/israels-1973-october-war-a-50-year-perspective/ 

Reuter’s staff, “Iran’s Khamenei says normalising Israel ties is a losing bet – state media,” Reuters, October 3, 2023. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-khamenei-says-normalising-ties-with-israel-is-betting-losing-horse-state-2023-10-03/ 

Emily Rose and James Mackenzie, “Fifty years on, divided Israel remembers the war for its survival,” Reuters, October 6, 2023. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fifty-years-divided-israel-remembers-war-its-survival-2023-10-06/ 

Sue Surkes, “In stunning response, 15,000 volunteers fill leadership vacuum to help victims of Hamas,” Times of Israel, October 22, 2023. https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-stunning-response-15000-volunteers-fill-leadership-vacuum-to-help-victims-of-hamas 

Sneha Swaminathan, “Explained | Why did Israel bomb Syrian airports in the thick of its ongoing war with Hamas?,” WIONews, October 23, 2023. https://www.wionews.com/world/explained-why-israel-bombed-syrian-airports-in-the-thick-of-its-ongoing-war-with-hamas-650322 

Andrew Wilks, “Is Turkey uniquely positioned to mediate between Palestinians and Israel?,” Aljazeera, October 22, 2023. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/22/is-turkey-uniquely-positioned-to-mediate-between-palestinians-and-israel 

Adir Yanko, “Since beginning of war, 23 families request to retrieve sperm from fallen soldiers,” Ynet News, October 24, 2023. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/hyblx64zp 

Oded Yaron, “150,000 Missiles Aimed at Israel: How Far Does Hezbollah’s Deadly Arsenal Reach,” Ha’aretz, October 23, 2023. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-10-23/ty-article-magazine/150-000-rockets-and-missiles-the-weapons-israel-would-encounter-in-a-war-with-hezbollah/0000018b-573d-d2b2-addf-777df6210000 


#127 Contemporary Readings September 2023   

October 3, 2023

October 2, 2023

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

30 Years Since Oslo – Curated Readings, Center for Israel Education, September 2023.

Ghaith al-Omari, “The Palestinian Authority, a Flawed but Necessary Legacy of Oslo,” Washington Institute of Near East Policy, September 7, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/palestinian-authority-flawed-necessary-legacy-oslo 

Ofer Ateret, “Golda Meir Was ‘Open’ to a Palestinian State, Newly Released Archives From 1970 Reveal,” Ha’aretz, August 1, 2023, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-01/ty-article/.premium/golda-meir-was-open-to-a-palestinian-state-1970-minutes-reveal/00000189-b054-d083-a999-fc5ff4350000 

Atlantic Council experts, “Israel is joining the US Visa Waiver Program. Here’s what that means,” Atlanta Council, September 28, 2023, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/experts-react/israel-is-joining-the-us-visa-waiver-program/ 

Sarah Austin and Jonathan Evans, “Israelis have grown more skeptical of a two-state solution,” Pew Research Center, “September 26, 2023, https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/26/israelis-have-grown-more-skeptical-of-a-two-state-solution/ 

Meir Ben Shabbat, “Israel’s two-pronged challenge,” Israel Hayom, October 2, 2023, https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/israels-two-pronged-challenge/ 

Raffi Berg, “Israel judicial reform explained: What is the crisis about?,” BBC, September 11, 2023, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65086871 

Ben Caspit, “Unprecedented breakdown in Israel-US channels as Netanyahu bars ministers from visiting Washington,” Al-Monitor, September 1, 2023, https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/09/unprecedented-breakdown-israel-us-channels-netanyahu-bars-ministers-visiting  

Raghida Dergham, “Why Iran might favour Biden’s Lebanon-Israel peace mission,” The National News, September 3, 2023, https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comment/2023/09/03/why-iran-might-favour-bidens-lebanon-israel-peace-mission/ 

Michael Doran, “The hidden Calculation Behind the Yom Kippur War,” Mosaic, October 2, 2023, https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel-zionism/2023/10/the-hidden-calculation-behind-the-yom-kippur-war/ 

Foreign Relations of the United States, The Arab-Israeli Crisis and the 1973 War, 1969-1976, (several hundred pages).

Lawrence Freedman, “Eighteen Days in October –  how Israel turned the tide,” Financial Times, September 13, 2023, https://www.ft.com/content/e4386688-13f3-4677-b788-8cca446b0921 

Amir Fuchs, “The Supreme Court Hearing on the Incapacitation Law,” Israel Democracy Institute, September 26, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/50968 

Daniel Gordis, “The Second Yom Kippur War,” Substack: Israel on the Inside, September 28, 2023, https://danielgordis.substack.com/p/the-second-yom-kippur-war 

Roya Hakakian, “Letter to an Anti-Zionist Idealist,” Sapir Journal, August 2023, https://sapirjournal.org/antisemitism/2023/08/letter-to-an-anti-zionist-idealist/ 

Tamar Hermann and Or Anabi, “Many Israelis believe a deal with Saudi Arabia would strengthen PM Netanyahu politically,” Israel Democracy Institute, September 24, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/50980 

INSS Staff, “A US-Israel Defense Treaty: Strengthening the Long-Term Relationship and Providing a Strategic Response to Future Challenges,” Institute for National Security Studies, September 27, 2023, https://www.inss.org.il/defense-treaty/ 

James Jeffrey, “How Turkey-Israel reconciliation will reshape the Middle East,” The Hill, September 29, 2023, https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4228775-what-turkey-israel-reconciliation-means-for-the-region-and-the-world/ 

Brian Michael Jenkins, “U.S. and Israel on Parallel Paths,” RAND Corporation, September 6, 2023, https://www.rand.org/blog/2023/09/us-and-israel-on-parallel-paths.html 

Yossi Klein Halevi, “The state of our brokenness,” Times of Israel, September 27, 2023, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-state-of-our-brokenness 

Paul Iddon, “Morocco Procured Israeli And Turkish Weapons That Enabled Azerbaijan To Prevail Over Armenia,” Forbes, September 21, 2023, https://www.forbes.com/sites/pauliddon/2023/09/21/morocco-procured-israeli-and-turkish-weapons-that-enabled-azerbaijan-to-prevail-over-armenia/?sh=9916ee4130ba 

Herb Keinon, “The fragility of Israel’s image abroad – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, September 18, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-759590 

Israel State Archives, The Yom Kippur War, October 1973, 100 plus pages.

Alyza Lewin, “Anti-Zionist Harassment is Against the Law, Too,” Sapir Journal, August 2023, https://sapirjournal.org/antisemitism/2023/08/anti-zionist-harassment-is-against-the-law-too/  

Jacob Magid, “PA officials: If Israel stops unilateral actions for Saudi deal, we’ll stop ours ,” Times of Israel, September 26, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-officials-if-israel-stops-unilateral-actions-for-saudi-deal-well-stop-ours 

Jacob Magid, “Abbas’s son was part of PA delegation to meetings in Riyadh on Israel normalization,” Times of Israel, September 15, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbass-son-was-part-of-pa-delegation-to-meetings-in-riyadh-on-israel-normalization/ 

David Makovsky, “An Inside Look at Rabin’s Oslo Expectations,”  Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 15, 2023.

Bethan McKernan, “Saudi Arabia ‘getting closer’ to normalising relations with Israel, crown prince says,” The Guardian, September 21, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/saudi-arabia-getting-closer-to-normalising-relations-with-israel-crown-prince-says  

PCPSR Staff, “Public Opinion Poll No. 38,” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, September 13, 2023, https://pcpsr.org/en/node/955 

Jihane Rahhou, “Morocco and Israel Forge Agricultural and Water Cooperation Deal,” Morocco World News, September 29, 2023, https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2023/09/357978/morocco-and-israel-forge-agricultural-and-water-cooperation-deal 

Ido Gadi Raz, “Far But Present: Israel’s Three Major Threats Coming From Afghanistan – Analysis,” Eurasia Review, September 24, 2023, https://www.eurasiareview.com/24092023-far-but-present-israels-three-major-threats-coming-from-afghanistan-analysis/ 

Grant Rumley, “Israel Normalization Negotiations and the U.S.-Saudi Defense Relationship,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 25, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israel-normalization-negotiations-and-us-saudi-defense-relationship 

Ofer Shelah, “The Attacks on Israel’s Security Leadership: More than Populism and Bad Manners,” Institute for National Security Studies, September 11, 2023, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/security-leadership-attacks/ 

Oslo at 30: Personal Perspectives from Washington Institute Scholars: A compendium (Dennis Ross, David Makovsky, Neomi Neumann, Gaith al-Omari, Mohammed Dajani, Nickolay Mladenove, and Catherine Cleveland, The Washington Institute, September 29, 2023.

Eran Shamir-Borer and Mirit Sharabi, “Fifty Years After the Yom Kippur War. It’s Time the Security Cabinet Replaced the Prime Minister’s ‘Kitchen Cabinet’,” Israel Democracy Institute, September 22, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/50962 

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler and Itai Brun, “Yom Kippur War: How ChatGPT can be used for military intel, war simulation,” Israel Democracy Institute, September 24, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/51022 

Michael Starr, “Israel entering unstable paradigm on Gaza border – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, September 26, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-760549 

TOI Staff, “State comptroller: Arab murder rate a resounding failure of Israeli governments,” Times of Israel, September 14, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/state-comptroller-arab-murder-rate-a-resounding-failure-of-israeli-governments/ 

Ken Stein, “The October 1973 War – A Short History, (Espanol)

Jim Zanotti, “Israel: Major Issues and U.S. Relations,” Congressional Research Service, September 27, 2023, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44245 


#126 Contemporary Readings August 2023   

September 10, 2023

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

Ofer Ateret, “Golda Meir Was ‘Open’ to a Palestinian State, Newly Released Archives From 1970 Reveal,” Ha’aretz, August 1, 2023, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-01/ty-article/.premium/golda-meir-was-open-to-a-palestinian-state-1970-minutes-reveal/00000189-b054-d083-a999-fc5ff4350000 

Guy Azriel, “Israel considering pipeline to Turkey to increase gas exports,” i24, August 29, 2023, https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/economy/1693292330-israel-examines-construction-of-gas-pipeline-to-turkey 

Yonah Jeremy Bob, “Terror in Israel is out of control – what can be done? – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, August 31, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-757083 

Dechlan Brennan, “Australia Resumes Use of the Phrase ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’,” The Diplomat, August 24, 2023, https://thediplomat.com/2023/08/australia-resumes-use-of-the-phrase-occupied-palestinian-territories/ 

Catherine Cleveland and David Pollock, “Fikra Forum: Palestinians Surprisingly Split on Saudi-Israel Normalization,”, Washington Institute, August 17, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/palestinians-surprisingly-split-saudi-israel-normalization 

Center for Israel Education, CIE Israel@75 and analyses, 26 items, videos, webinars, etc.

Center for Israel Education, Where Does Zionism Go From Here? August 22, 2023, (32:00).

Center for Israel Education, Israel State Archives, The Yom Kippur War, October 1973.

Seth Cropsey, “In the Middle East, Biden is taking shortcuts he cannot afford,” The Hill, August 23, 2023, https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4162308-in-the-middle-east-biden-is-taking-shortcuts-he-cannot-afford/  

CRS Staff, “U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel,” Congressional Research Service, March 1, 2023, https://sgp.fas.org/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf

Udi Dekel, Reem Cohen and Noy Shalev, “The Struggle over Area C: Change Direction toward a Space for Understanding with the Palestinian Authority,” Institute for National Security Studies, August 23, 2023, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/c-territory/ 

Shradha Dinesh and Laura Silver, “How Americans view Israel, Netanyahu and U.S.-Israel relations in 5 charts,” Pew Research Center, August 21, 2023, https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/21/how-americans-view-israel-netanyahu-and-u-s-israel-relations-in-5-charts/ 

Louise Fischer, Secret Negotiations with the PLO and the signing of the Declaration of Principles in Washington, January-September, 1993,

Ben Fishman, “The Rise and immediate Fall of Israel-Libya Relations,” Washington Institute, August 29, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/rise-and-immediate-fall-israel-libya-relations 

Seth Frantzman, “What can be learned from Libya’s anti-Israel protests? – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, August 29, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-756743 

President Herzog’s speech to the US Congress, July 19, 2023, (Spanish).

Oren Kessler, “Herbert Samuel’s secret 1937 testimony on the infamous mufti of Jerusalem revealed,” Times of Israel, August 19, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-reveals-herbert-samuels-secret-1937-testimony-on-the-infamous-mufti-of-jerusalem/   

Abigail Klein Leichman, “A classroom where teachers and kids have fun, and succeed,” Israel 21c, August 29, 2023, https://www.israel21c.org/a-classroom-where-teachers-and-kids-have-fun-and-succeed/ 

Alaa Lahlouh, “Armed Groups in Northern West Bank: The Beginning of an Armed Intifada or the Seeds of an Internal Palestinian Conflict?,” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, August 2023, https://pcpsr.org/en/node/948 

Bethan McKernan, “UK ‘seeking to block ICJ ruling’ on Israeli occupation of Palestine,” The Guardian, August 24, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/24/uk-seeking-block-icj-ruling-israeli-occupation-palestine   

Suzanne McGee, “How Golda Meir Rose to Become the ‘Iron Lady’ of Israel,” History, August 25, 2023, https://www.history.com/news/golda-meir-israel-prime-minister-iron-lady-yom-kippur-war 

Gianluca Pacchiani, “Protests against Hamas reemerge in the streets of Gaza, but will they persist?,” Times of Israel, August 8, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/protests-against-hamas-reemerge-in-the-streets-of-gaza-but-will-they-persist/ 

Jonathan Panikoff, “The Last Chance for a Two-State Solution for Israelis and Palestinians May Be to Think Much Bigger,” Just Security, August 7, 2023, https://www.justsecurity.org/87487/the-last-chance-for-a-two-state-solution-for-israelis-and-palestinians-may-be-to-think-much-bigger/

Reuters staff, “Israel approves increase in gas exports to Egypt,” Al Jazeera, August 23, 2023, https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/8/23/israel-approves-increase-in-gas-exports-to-egypt

Reuters staff, “Analysis-Israel-Hezbollah Tensions Elevate Risks of Conflict,” U.S. News and World Report, August 17, 2023, https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-08-17/analysis-israel-hezbollah-tensions-elevate-risks-of-conflict 

Abeer Salman, “Saudi Arabia appoints first envoy to Palestinians amid talks on Israel normalization,” CNN, August 14, 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/14/middleeast/saudi-appoints-first-envoy-palestinians-intl/index.html  

Robert Satloff, “President Biden can show his support for Israel by staying silent,” The Hill, July 29, 2023, https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4124907-president-biden-can-show-his-support-for-israel-by-staying-silent/ 

Yasmeen Serhan, “The American Public’s Views on Israel Are Undergoing a Profound Shift. Washington Hasn’t Caught Up,” Time Magazine, July 19, 2023, https://time.com/6295703/israel-herzog-visit-washington/   

James Sinkinson, “Palestinian Society Sinks into Shambles,” Algemeiner, August 10, 2023, https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/08/10/palestinian-society-sinks-into-shambles  

TOI Staff and Lazar Berman, “Libya fires its FM amid furor over her unprecedented meet with Israeli counterpart,” Times of Israel, August 28, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/libya-fires-foreign-minister-amid-backlash-over-meeting-with-israeli-counterpart 

Ilan Zalayat and Yoel Guzansky, “Three Years to the Israel-Bahrain Normalization: The Forgotten Peace,” Institute for National Security Studies, August 31, 2023, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/israel-bahrain-3/ 


#125 Contemporary Readings July 2023

July 28, 2023

August 1, 2023

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

Adnan Abu Amer, “Analysis: Can Islamic Jihad survive Israel’s assassination drive?,” Al-Jazeera, July 7, 2023, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/7/analysis-can-islamic-jihad-survive-israels-assassination-drive 

Farris Almarri, “Jordanians Favor De-escalation in the Region, But Sentiment Against Israel Remains,” Poll, Washington Institute for Near East Studies, June 9, 2023, https://t.co/yMEuoaMYoU 

Jimmy Carter, “The US and Iran, the Shah’s down-fall, the hostage crisis and the rise of Ayatollah Khomeyni,” a presentation to undergraduates at Emory University, Center for Israel Education/Emory University, 1985, https://israeled.org/president-jimmy-carter-the-us-and-iran-the-shahs-down-fall-the-hostage-crisis-and-the-rise-of-ayatollah-khomeyni/  

Center for Israel Education, “Political Statements on a Two-State Solution to Resolve the Arab (Palestinian)-Israeli Conflict, 1937 -present, July 12, 202.

Center for Preventative Action staff, “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Council on Foreign Relations, July 6, 2023, https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/israeli-palestinian-conflict 

Rafi Demogge, (pseudonym) “The Looming War over Israel’s Law of Return,” Mosaic, July 3, 2023, https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel-zionism/2023/07/the-looming-war-over-israels-law-of-return/ and Response from Yedidia Stern, “Allowing the grandchildren of Jews to come to Israel is problematic, but preventing them is even more problematic. The solution: opening the gates of conversion,”  Mosaic, https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/israel-zionism/2023/07/how-to-avoid-a-war-over-the-law-of-return/

Louise Fischer, “The Yom Kippur War, October 1973,” Israel State Archives, undated, https://catalog.archives.gov.il/en/publication/the-yom-kippur-war-october-1973/ 

Seth Frantzman, “Report reveals Iran’s growing threat to US, Israel from Syria – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-752105 

Seth Frantzman, “Iran media celebrates possible Israel ‘civil war’ and Netanyahu’s ‘crisis’ – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-752086 

Daniel Gordis, “The day the music died….,” Substack: Israel from the Inside, July 24, 2023, https://danielgordis.substack.com/p/the-day-the-music-died  

Yoel Guzansky, “The Road to Normalization: Relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia,” Institute for Security Studies, July 23, 2023, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/saudi-arabia-normalization/ 

Amos Harel, “Analysis | Iran Gets an Unwritten Deal From the U.S. as Israel Gets a Bear Hug,” Ha’aretz, July 14, 2023, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-14/ty-article/.premium/iran-gets-an-unwritten-deal-from-the-u-s-as-israel-gets-a-bear-hug/00000189-508e-d2fd-abdd-daae79910000 

Hiba Husseini, “Participation of East Jerusalem in Future Palestinian Parliamentary and Presidential Elections: Challenges and Policy Options,” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, July 2023, https://pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Brief%203_Participation%20of%20East%20Jerusalem%20in%20future%207%20June%202023%20_English.pdf 

INN staff, “Report: Credit rating agencies seek clarifications from Israel,” Arutz Sheva Israel National News, July 22, 2023, https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374520 

INSS staff, “The Judicial Overhaul: A Complete Guide,” Institute for National Security Studies, undated, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/judicial-overhaul-guide/ 

Israel Kasnett, “Israel’s Recognition of Morocco’s Western Sahara a Blow to Iran,” Jewish Press, July 21, 2023, https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/israels-recognition-of-moroccos-western-sahara-a-blow-to-iran/2023/07/21/

Nicholas Kristoff, “With Israel, It’s Time to Start Discussing the Unmentionable,” New York Times, July 22, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/opinion/israel-military-aid.html 

Eran Lerman, “As Tensions escalate, Israel is right to insist on reviving the regional Framework,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, July 3, 2023. https://jiss.org.il/en/lerman-israel-is-right-to-insist-on-reviving-the-regional-framework/

Matthew Levitt & Lauren von Thaden, “Guns, Drugs, and Smugglers: A Recent Heightened Challenge at Israel’s Borders with Jordan and Egypt,” Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, July 2023, https://ctc.westpoint.edu/guns-drugs-and-smugglers-a-recent-heightened-challenge-at-israels-borders-with-jordan-and-egypt/ 

Suzie Navot, “The Reasonableness Issue Requires Serious, Informed and Consensual Discussion, Israel Democracy Institute, July 14, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/50172

PCPSR Staff, “The Palestine/Israel Pulse: A Joint Poll,” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, January 2023, https://pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Press%20Release_Eng%20_Joint%20Poll%2024JAN2023.pdf 

PCPSR Staff, “Public Opinion Poll No. 88,” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, June 23, 2023., https://pcpsr.org/en/node/944 

Paul Rivlin, “Israel’s Economy: From Start-Up to Shut-Down Nation?,” Center for Israel Education, July 6, 2023, https://israeled.org/israels-economy-from-start-up-to-shut-down-nation-opinion-paul-rivlin-moshe-dayan-center/ 

David Rosenberg, “The Power of Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Has Peaked,” Foreign Policy, July 27, 2023, https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/27/israel-ultra-orthodox-judicial-religion-netanyahu/ 

Yair Rosenberg, “Israel has already lost,” The Atlantic, July 27, 2023, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/israel-supreme-court-netanyahu-parliament/674833/ 

Dennis Ross & Ghaith al-Omari, “Why a Weak Abbas is Dangerous for Israel,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, July 6, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/why-weak-abbas-dangerous-israel 

Abeer Salman, “Palestinian leader calls on world to ‘protect us,’ and his people respond with bitter laughter,” CNN, July 14, 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/14/middleeast/palestinians-mock-abbas-mime-intl/index.html 

Ahmad Sharawi & Essa Nahari, “Middle East Visits to the United States Under Biden, Trump, and Obama,” Washington Institute, July 20, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/middle-east-visits-united-states-under-biden-trump-and-obama 

Matt Spetalnick, Steve Holland & Simon Lewis, “Biden’s Israel dilemma: Few good options to counter Netanyahu’s defiance,” Reuters, July 25, 2023, https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/bidens-israel-dilemma-few-good-options-counter-netanyahus-defiance-2023-07-25/ 

Jared Szuba, “Pentagon seeks to deepen military ties with Israel despite judicial overhaul,” Al-Monitor, July 25, 2023, https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/07/pentagon-seeks-deepen-military-ties-israel-despite-judicial-overhaul 

TOI Staff, “Knesset votes to postpone election for new chief rabbis,” Times of Israel, July 24, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-votes-to-postpone-election-for-new-chief-rabbis/

TOI Staff, “Iranian, Hamas officials discuss response to upheaval in Israel — report,” Times of Israel, July 26, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-hamas-officials-secretly-discuss-response-to-upheaval-in-israel-report 

Mohammed S. Wattad, Zhanyang Liu & Derek Lief, “What Deters the Arab Population from the Protests?,” Institute for National Security Studies, July 18, 2023, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/arab-protest/ 


#124 Contemporary Readings June 2023

July 5, 2023

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

AJC Global Forum 2021, “Unveiling Israel’s Strategic Vision: A Conversation with Ron Dermer, Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs,” American Jewish Committee, June 12, 2023,  https://www.ajc.org/news/unveiling-israels-strategic-vision-a-conversation-with-ron-dermer-israeli-minister-of 

Farris Almarri, “Jordanians Favor De-escalation in the Region, But Sentiment Against Israel Remains,” Poll, Washington Institute for Near East Studies, June 9, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/new-public-opinion-poll-jordanians-favor-de-escalation-region-sentiment-against 

AP Staff, “China inks ‘strategic partnership’ with Palestinian Authority as it expands Middle East presence,” Associated Press, June 14, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/china-abbas-palestinian-israel-saudi-dd55f1cc81b53cb00cb1d045bc239566 

Samara Azzi and Hanin Ghaddar, “Cash Cabal — How Hezbollah Profits from Lebanon’s Financial Crisis,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 22, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/cash-cabal-how-hezbollah-profits-lebanons-financial-crisis 

Gershon Baskin, “Clarity of intentions, actions of consequence is what is required – opinion,” Jerusalem Post, June 15, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-746319

Lazar Berman, “Muslim-majority Kosovo wants ‘strategic partnership’ with Israel — former PM,” Times of Israel, June 14, 2023, https www.timesofisrael.com/muslim-majority-kosovo-wants-strategic-partnership-with-israel-former-pm/ 

Howard Blass, “From Pitching to Prayers, Synagogues should take a lesson from baseball,” The Jerusalem Post, June 11, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-745862 

Cleveland Jewish News staff, “Palestinian terrorists are ‘born via smartphones, not mosques’,” Cleveland Jewish News, June 27, 2023, https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/palestinian-terrorists-are-born-via-smartphones-not-mosques/article_6166bf02-8c53-566a-98e7-6732fb392999.html 

Alexander B. Downes and Jonathan Monten, “Forced to Be Free? Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Rarely Leads to Democratization,” International Security, Vol. 37, Vol. 4, Spring 2013, pp. 90-131, https://www.almendron.com/tribuna/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/forced-to-be-free.pdf 

Yaron Druckman, “In 30 years, 1 out of every 3 students in Israel will be ultra-Orthodox,” Y-net, June 28, 2023, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/by3rahuo2 

Tomer Fadlon, “Trends in Trade Between Israel and China Over the Past Decade (2013–2022),” INSS, June 18, 2023, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/israel-china-10-years/ 

Seth Frantzman, “Jenin’s threat to Israel and the region – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, June 26, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-747796 

Seth Frantzman, “Israel reaches out to Palestinian Authority ahead of Eid – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, June 27, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-747941 

Seth Frantzman, “Israel-Saudi normalization requires more long-term planning – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, June 29, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/abraham-accords/article-748150 

Thomas Friedman, “From Tel Aviv to Riyadh,” New York Times, June 6, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/opinion/israel-saudi-arabia.html 

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 

Raymond Hinnebusch, “Authoritarian persistence: democratization theory and the Middle East: An overview and critique,” Democratization, June 2006, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13510340600579243?needAccess=true&role=button 

“Immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, 1948-1985,” Israel State Archives, 2022, https://catalog.archives.gov.il/en/chapter/israel-and-the-jews-of-ethiopia-1948-1973/  

INSS and Moshe Dayan Center conference (audio and video), “Saudi Arabia: Between Iran and Israel,” Institute for National Security Studies,  May 28, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEz8W2fk2zs&ab_channel=INSSISRAEL 

Jerusalem Post Staff, “Germany and Israel’s strategic relationship – editorial,” Jerusalem Post, June 18, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-746668 

Carrie Keller-Lynn, “Hours after losing battle for Bar Association, Likud moves to void its power,” Times of Israel, June 21, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/hours-after-losing-battle-for-bar-association-likud-moves-to-void-it-of-power/ 

Bilahari Kausikan, “Southeast Asia between Major Powers: Lessons for the Middle East,” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, June 2023, https://jstribune.com/kausikan-southeast-asia-between-major-powers/ 

Mandi Kogosowski, “Israel State Comptroller to Audit Country’s Readiness for AI Era,” Israel Defense, June 29, 2023, https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/58720 

Etgar Lefkovits, “Cyprus-Greece-Israel ties are a ‘strategic partnership’,” Jewish News Syndicate, June 20, 2023, https://www.jns.org/israel-news/cyprus/23/6/20/296567/ 

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 

Ameer Makhoul, “On the question of the Palestinian Authority, Israel’s security institutions diverge,” Middle East Eye, June 27, 2023, https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/palestinian-authority-israel-security-institutions-diverge 

Mark Mazzetti, Ronen Bergman, Edward Wong and Vivian Nereim,” Biden administration engages in long-shot attempt for Saudi-Israeli deal,” Buffalo News/New York Times, June 18,  2023, https://buffalonews.com/biden-administration-engages-in-long-shot-attempt-for-saudi-israel-deal/article_61b1d0f0-573e-58c9-9f0e-717915e54671.html 

MEI Staff “Itamar Rabinovich on Middle Eastern Maze,”(audio),  Middle East Institute, June 21, 2023, https://www.mei.edu/multimedia/podcast/itamar-rabinovich-middle-eastern-maze 

Caroline Morganti, “Recent Polls of US Jews Reflect Polarized Community,” Jewish Currents. June 29, 2023, https://jewishcurrents.org/recent-polls-of-us-jews-reflect-polarized-community 

PCPSR Staff, “The Palestine/Israel Pulse: A Joint Poll.” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, January 24, 2023, https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Press%20Release_Eng%20_Joint%20Poll%2024JAN2023.pdf 

PCPSR Staff, “Public Opinion Poll No. 87,” Palestine Center for Policy and Survey Research, March 23, 2023, https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/938 

PCPSR Staff, “Public Opinion Poll No. 88,” Palestine Center for Policy and Survey Research, June 26, 2023, https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/944 

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 

Barak Ravid, “Scoop: White House expressed concern that Israel is leaking info on indirect Iran talks,” Axios, June 29, 2023, https://www.axios.com/2023/06/28/iran-talks-leak-white-house-israel-sullivan 

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/ 

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

Ksenia Svetlova, “Four Tribes of Modern Israel, The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, June 2023, (Israel Education systems), https://jstribune.com/svetlova-the-four-tribes-of-modern-israel/ 

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/ 

Times of Israel Staff, “Israel agreed to give up sovereignty in part of Jerusalem Old City in 2000,” Times of Israel, June 19, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-agreed-to-give-up-sovereignty-in-part-of-jerusalem-old-city-in-2000-document/  

Times of Israel Staff, “‘Strategic mistake’: Netanyahu panned for planning China visit as signal to Biden,” Times of Israel, June 27, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/strategic-mistake-netanyahu-panned-for-planning-china-visit-as-signal-to-biden/ 

Times of Israel Staff, “Netanyahu rules out giving Ukraine Iron Dome anti-missile system,” Times of Israel, June 29, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-rules-out-giving-ukraine-iron-dome-anti-missile-system/ 

Amir Hossein Vazirian, “Arming the West Bank: A Look at Iran’s New Israel Strategy,” National Interest, June 28, 2023, https://nationalinterest.org/feature/arming-west-bank-look-iran%E2%80%99s-new-israel-strategy-206588 

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 

Ben Dror Yemeni, “Netanyahu’s government opts for a bi-national state,” Y-net, June 20, 2023, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkfr4x1u3 

Kawala Xie. “China’s Xi meets Palestinian leader Abbas, offers 3-point proposal for ‘lasting solution’ to conflict with Israel,” South China Morning Post, June 14, 2023, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3224032/china-pledges-support-peaceful-resolution-palestinian-issue-amid-abbas-visit-and-profound-changes 


#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 


#122 Contemporary Readings April 2023

May 2, 2023

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

Agence France-Presse, “China ready to broker Israel-Palestine peace talks, says foreign minister,” The Guardian, April 17, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/18/china-ready-to-broker-israel-palestine-peace-talks-says-foreign-minister 

Fares Akram, “In First, Iran’s president addresses Palestinians in Gaza,” Associated Press, April 14, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/iran-palestinians-gaza-jerusalem-256ccdd3029ba63f8b19302a6640b363 

Peter Beinart, “Could Israel Carry Out Another Nakba?,” Jewish Currentshttps://jewishcurrents.org/could-israel-carry-out-another-nakba  

Ilan Ben Zion and Tia Goldenberg, “Fraught US-Israel ties on display as Knesset reconvenes,” ABC News, May 1, 2023, https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/fraught-us-israel-ties-display-knesset-reconvenes-98979912 

Yonah Jeremy Bob, “As F-35 deals move forward in US, where does Israel stand? – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-741716 

Andrew Esensten, Marta Furlan, Evgeni Klauber, Talia Naamat, Fabian Spengler, Moses Toshimasu, Jesse Weinberg, and Carl Yonker, “Anti-Semitism Worldwide: Report for 2022,” Tel Aviv University and the Anti-Defamation League, April 2023, https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/2023-04/AntisemitismWorldwide_e.pdf 

Adam S. Ferziger, “Israelization and Lived Religion: Conflicting Accounts of Contemporary Judaism,” Contemporary Jewry, 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7265156 

Tuvia Gering, “Full throttle in neutral: China’s new security architecture for the Middle East,” The Atlantic Council, February 15, 2023, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/full-throttle-in-neutral-chinas-new-security-architecture-for-the-middle-east/ 

Idit Shafran Gittleman (moderator), Podcast: “From Declaration to State: IDF Generals in a Special Podcast for Independence Day,” Institute of National Security Studies, April 24,2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyfUCdZhrwQ&ab_channel=INSSISRAEL 

Daniel Gordis, “What if the Declaration of Independence became a ‘Basic Law’?,” Substack: Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis, April 20, 2023, 
https://danielgordis.substack.com/p/what-if-the-declaration-of-independence

Daniel Gordis, “”It’s over,” the protesters are saying — and they no longer mean just judicial reform,”, Substack: Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis, May 1, 2023, https://danielgordis.substack.com/p/its-over-the-protesters-are-saying 

Kathleen Hayes, “An Open Letter to Anti-Zionists from a Veteran of the Left,” Fathom, April 2022, https://fathomjournal.org/an-open-letter-to-anti-zionists-from-a-veteran-of-the-left 

David Hazony, “Israel at 75,” April 20, 2023, Jewish Journal, https://jewishjournal.com/cover_story/358025/israel-at-75-the-rebirth-of-israel/ 

Tamar Hermann and Or Anabi, “National Mood Unrestful,” Israel Democracy Institute, April 3, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/48985 

Shale Horowitz, “Why Israel is Judged Differently: Jerusalem’s International Challenges, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2023, Vol 30, No 2, https://www.meforum.org/64210/why-israel-is-judged-differently 

Paul Iddon, “’Convergence Of Arenas’: What Israel’s Future Wars Might Look Like,” Forbes, April 29, 2023, https://www.forbes.com/sites/pauliddon/2023/04/29/convergence-of-arenas-what-israels-future-wars-might-look-like/?sh=31d623275555 

INN/Arutz 7 Staff, “As expected: Moody’s downgrades Israel’s credit rating outlook to stable,” Israel National News, Arutz Sheva, April 15, 2023, https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/
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Jewish Learning Institute, Jewish Literacy, 6 part video (Tanakh, Midrash, Talmud, Halacha, Musar, Kabalah), each is 7-12 minutes, 2022-2023, origins and relationships of Jewish texts over the centuries, https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/FMfcgzGsmNWvCKvvMkmkpXlnnlszVHQd

Martin Kramer, “Israel’s Declaration of Independence,”  (8 video and audio episodes), Tikvah Fund, https://tikvahfund.org/course/declaring-israels-independence/

Martin Kramer, “Israel from 25 to 75: The lesson is perpetual vigilance,” Times of Israel, April 25, 2023, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-from-25-to-75/ 

Martin Kramer and Neil Rogachevsky, “Constitutions and Courts in Israel: From the Declaration of Independence to the Current Crisis,” Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, April 4, 2023, (Video, 1:10), https://www.asmeascholars.org/constitutions-and-courts-in-israel–from-the-declaration-of-independence-to-the-current-crisis 

Shalom Lipner, “Netanyahu’s coalition isn’t built to last: Expect high sparks within and fragile prospects for Israel’s incoming government,” Atlantic Council, February 2023, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/netanyahus-coalition-isnt-built-to-last-expect-high-sparks-within-and-fragile-prospects-for-israels-incoming-government/ 

Guy Lurie and Daphne Benvenisty, “The Role of Legal Advisors – Explainer From Professional to Political,” Israel Democracy Institute, April 4, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/48989 

Guy Lurie and Amichai Cohen, “Appointment of Judges to High Courts in Democratic Countries: A Comparative Study,” examines 42 countries in detailed study, Israel Democracy Institute, April 4, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/48993 

Jacob Magid, “Despite baggage, some Palestinians rooting for Israel to secure US visa waiver,” Times of Israel, April 17, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/despite-baggage-some-palestinians-rooting-for-israel-to-secure-us-visa-waiver/ 

Yoram Margalit, “How is this the “End of Democracy?” Israel Democracy Institute, March 21, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/49023 

Heather May and Ben Winslow, “Why did Utah leaders go to Israel?,” KSL, April 30, 2023, https://www.ksl.com/article/50633450/why-did-utah-leaders-go-to-israel 

Kobi Michael, “A Sea Change and a Slippery Slope: When the Military Becomes a Political Actor,” Institute for National Security Studies, April 18, 2023, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/idf-politics/ 

Ash Obel, “Gantz’s National Unity party soars past Netanyahu’s plunging Likud, poll finds,” Times of Israel, April 17, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantzs-national-unity-party-soars-past-netanyahus-plunging-likud-poll-finds/ 

Marc Rod, “House lawmakers relaunch Latino-Jewish caucus,” Jewish Insider, April 28, 2023, https://jewishinsider.com/2023/04/latino-jewish-caucus-capitol-hill-american-jewish-committee/ 

PCPSR Staff, “Public opinion poll No. 87,” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, March 23, 2023, http://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/938 

Alon Pinkas, “Analysis: McCarthy’s High-profile Israel Visit Sets Netanyahu on a Collision Course With Biden,” Ha’aretz, May 1, 2023, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-05-01/ty-article/.highlight/netanyahu-is-desperate-for-a-white-house-invite-mccarthys-israel-visit-wont-help/00000187-d66d-d9b4-abaf-feff1d720000 

Haviv Rettig Gur, “The implosion of Israel’s ruling party,” Times of Israel, March 22, https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-implosion-of-israels-ruling-party/ 

Neil Rogachevsky, “Against Court and Constitution: A Never Before Translated Speech by David Ben-Gurion,” Mosaic Magazine, March 10, 2021, https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/israel-zionism/2021/03/against-court-and-constitution-a-never-before-translated-speech-by-david-ben-gurion/ 

Neil Rogachevsky and Dov Ziegler, “Israel’s Declaration of Independence: A Biography,” Jewish Review of Books, Spring 2023, https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/uncategorized/
13858/israels-declaration-of-independence-a-biography/
 

Shmuel Rosner, Camil Fuchs, and Noah Slepkov, “Pluralism Index 2023: Israelis Want a Democratic and Jewish State,” Jewish People’s Policy Institute, March 22, 2023, https://jppi.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Pluralism-Index-Clean-1.pdf 

Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, “Israeli Public’s Commitment to Democracy Shines as the Country Turns 75,” The National Interest, April 27, 2023, https://nationalinterest.org/blog/
lebanon-watch/israeli-publics-commitment-democracy-shines-country-turns-75-206433
 

Sheren Falah Saab, “Palestinian Author: We Should Join Israeli Protests, Without Palestinian Flags,” Ha’aretz, May 1, 2023, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-05-01/ty-article-magazine/.premium/palestinian-israeli-author-we-have-to-fight-even-for-crumbs-of-democracy/00000187-b3d7-d803-ad8f-ffd7f0020000 

Robert Satloff, “Saudi Normalization with Israel, Domestic ‘Transformation,’ and U.S. Policy,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 1, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/media/6395?disposition=inline  

Dan Schueftan, “The beginning of the end of Israel’s ‘Grand Coalitions’,” Tablet, March 8, 2023, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/end-of-israels-grand-coalitions 

Zaki Shalom and Sophia Schmidt, “The Israel-U.S. Relationship in Face of the Judicial Controversy,” National Interest, May 1, 2023, https://nationalinterest.org/feature/israel-us-relationship-face-judicial-controversy-206445 

Leah Soibel, “Israel is a Hispanic opportunity,” SAPIR Journal, Spring 2023, https://sapirjournal.org/israel-at-75/2023/04/israel-is-a-hispanic-opportunity/ 

Meir Soloveichik, “The Miracle at 75,” Commentary, May 2023, https://www.commentary.org/articles/meir-soloveichik/miracle-of-israel-at-75/ 

Ken Stein, “Context and Consequences of Israel’s Proposed Judicial Overhaul,” The Torah Center ATL, March 30, 2023, video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTNu6WCcQt4 and audio only: https://soundcloud.com/thetorahcenteratl/context-consequences-of-israels-proposed-judicial-overhaul-dr-ken-stein  

TOI Staff and agencies, “Report: Israel got intel on Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program from executed spy,” Times of Israel, May 1, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-israel-got-intel-on-irans-secret-nuclear-weapons-program-from-executed-spy/ 

Noam Zohar, “Tyranny of the majority is not democratic; certainly, it is not Jewish,” Ynet, April 16, 2023, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1ddi7tz2 


#121 Contemporary Readings March 2023

April 3, 2023

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

Ghaith al-Omari, “To Prevent the PA from Unraveling, Address Internal Reform,” Washington Institute, February 28, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/prevent-pa-unraveling-address-internal-reform

AJC Staff, “The State of Anti-Semitism in American 2022: AJC’s Survey of American Jews,” American Jewish Committee, February 2023, https://www.ajc.org/AntisemitismReport2022/
AmericanJews
 

Bank of Israel head issues new warning on overhaul, says bodies independence vital,” Times of Israel, March 28, 2023.

BICOM Morning Brief Staff, “Israeli Cabinet resignations expose coalition tensions,” Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, March 1, 2023, https://www.bicom.org.uk/news/
israeli-cabinet-resignations-expose-coalition-tensions/
 

Sarah Blau, “A family tale about Herzl and the will of Israel,” Ynet News, March 22, 2023, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkkcpbig2

Conference staff, “Economic Consequences of the Judiciary ‘Reform’,” Tel Aviv University Frenkel-Zuckerman Institute, Israel Democracy Institute, Reichman University Aaron Institute for Economic Policy and TAU’s Business-Academic Club, March 2, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvVR5Mc3jS8 

Center for Israel Education, “A Review of the Four Elements of the Planned Overhaul of Israel’s Judiciary, March 21, 2023 (revised) (videos, articles, detailed summaries, think tank items)

Robbie Corey-Boulet, “Reestablishment of Saudi- Iran ties adds twist to Israel’s Arab Outreach,” Times of Israel, March 11, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/reestablishment-of-saudi-iran-ties-adds-twist-to-israels-arab-outreach/ 

Michael Crowley, Vivian Nereim and Patrick Kingsley, “Saudi Arabia Offers Its Price to Normalize Relations With Israel,” New York Times, March 10, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/us/politics/saudi-arabia-israel-united-states.html 

Abraham Diskin, “Putting an end to the upheaval of the high court,” Kohelet Policy Forum, March 19, 2023, https://en.kohelet.org.il/publication/putting-an-end-to-the-upheaval-of-the-high-court 

Oren Dori, “Treasury: Judicial reform will cost NIS 50-100b annual growth loss,” Globes, March 21, 2023, https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-treasury-judicial-reform-will-cost-nis-50-100b-annual-growth-loss-1001441803 

Nadeen Ebrahim, “Netanyahu is backed into a corner. Here’s what he may do next,” CNN, March 29, 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/middleeast/netanyahu-options-israel-mime-intl/index.html 

Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr, “A New Order in the Middle East?,” Foreign Affairs, March 22, 2023, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/iran-saudi-arabia-middle-east-relations 

Gerald Feierstein and Yoel Guzansky, “Two years on, what is the state of the Abraham Accords?,” Middle East Institute, September 14, 2022, https://www.mei.edu/publications/two-years-what-state-abraham-accords 

Luis Fleischman, “Israeli Civil Society Has Displayed a Model of Resistance to Global Illiberalism,” Palm Beach Center for Democracy and Policy Research, March 30, 2023, https://palmbeachdemocracy.org/israeli-civil-society-has-displayed-a-model-of-resistance-to-global-illiberalism/ 

Seth Frantzman, “What have been Iran’s reactions to Israel political chaos? – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, March 27, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-735553 

Amir Fuchs, “What is ‘Incapacity’ and what are the Implications of a Prime Minister’s Incapacity?” Israel Democracy Institute, March 5, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/48090 

Aharon Garber and Avraham Shalev, “Why judicial reform is essential,” Kohelet Policy Forum, February 19, 2023, https://en.kohelet.org.il/publication/why-judicial-reform-is-essential 

Yoav Gallant, “Speech to Nation Seeking Pause in Judicial Overhaul,” March 25, 2023.

Derek Gatopoulos, Costas Kantouris and Josef Federman “Israel’s Netanyahu: Mossad helped Greece uncover terror plot,” Associated Press, March 29, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/greece-terrorism-arrests-12946c19a59d61edba970184b547e578 

Daniel Gordis, “What you just witnessed was one of the greatest weeks in Israel’s history,” Substack: Israel From the Inside, March 27, 2023, https://danielgordis.substack.com/p/what-you-just-witnessed-was-one-of 

Evelyn Gordon, “Israel’s Judicial Reckoning,” Mosaic, March 6, 2023, http://tikvahfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Israels-Judicial-Reckoning-MosaicMosaic.pdf 

IDI Staff, “The Planned Overhaul of Israel’s Judiciary,” Israel Democracy Institute, March 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/tags-en/47383 

INSS Staff, “A Strategic Alert in the Wake of the Judicial Reform,” March 21, 2023, Institute for National Security Studies, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/strategic-alert/ 

Jewish People’s Policy Institute, “Pluralism Index 2023: Israelis Want a Democratic and Jewish State,” Jewish People’s Policy Institute, March 22, 2023, (20pp), https://jppi.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Pluralism-Index-Clean-1.pdf

JFNA Staff, “How the New Government Policy Affects Israel’s Economy & Foreign Policy,” Jewish Federations of North America with Israel Democracy Institute, March 21, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/galleries/48470 

President Isaac Herzog “People’s Directive” for a compromise to the judicial overhaul controversy,” March 15, 2023.

Brian Katulis, Firas Maksad, Charles Lister, Intissar Fakir and Marvin G. Weinbaum, “Four factors to watch to assess the Saudi-Iranian diplomatic opening,” Middle East Institute, March 13, 2023, https://www.mei.edu/blog/monday-briefing-four-factors-watch-assess-saudi-iranian-diplomatic-opening 

Herb Keinon, “Israel’s striking reservist pilots are short-sighted — analysis,” Jerusalem Post, March 6, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-733525 

Michael Kopelowitz, “Why a Judicial Compromise is Important No Matter the Content,” Israel Policy Forum, March 9, 2023, https://israelpolicyforum.org/2023/03/09/why-a-judicial-compromise-is-important-no-matter-the-content/ 

Nicole Lampert, “Does the BBC not care about Jews expelled from Arab countries?,” The Jewish Chronicle, March 21, 2023, https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/all/does-the-bbc-not-care-about-jews-expelled-from-arab-countries-2G3gRzcPUlBPmD56aupHfC 

Ephraim Lavie, Mohammed Wattad, Orit Perlov, Mora Deitch and Meir Elran, “Israel’s Arab Society Following the Establishment of the 37th Government,” Institute for National Security Studies, March 6, 2023, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/arabs-in-israel-37-government/ 

Dave Lawler, “Democrats now sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis, poll finds,” Axios, Match 16, 2023, https://www.axios.com/2023/03/16/democrats-sympathize-more-palestinians-israelis-gallup 

Jonathan Lemire and Nahal Toosi, “Biden’s favorite Middle East ally is spoiling his democracy party,” Politico, March 29, 2023, https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/29/netanyahu-biden-democracy-israel-00089326 

Canaan Lidor, “In new poll, 63% of Israeli Jews call Diaspora coreligionists ‘brethren’,” Times of Israel, March 22, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-new-poll-63-of-israeli-jews-call-diaspora-coreligionists-brethren/

David Makovsky, “The National Security Implications of Israel’s Judicial Debate,” video discussion (1:09) with Shimrit Meir, Yaacov Amidror, Uzi Dayan, Zohar Palti, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 8, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/national-security-implications-israels-judicial-debate 

David Makovsky, David Patkin, Gabriel Epstein, “Israel Expands Settlements as Smotrich Increases his Authority, Policy Watch, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 1, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israel-expands-settlements-smotrich-increases-his-authority

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “Two Speeches to the Nation – continuing and pausing the the judicial legislative overhaul process,” March 23 and March 27, 

MEM Staff, “Israel launches spy satellite days after Saudi-Iran deal,” Middle East Monitor, March 29, 2023, https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230329-israel-launches-spy-satellite-days-after-saudi-iran-deal/ 

Suzie Navot, “There’s no ‘compromise’ in the coalition’s play for unlimited Power,” Israel Democracy Institute, March 22, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/48542 

Assaf Orion, “On the Brink of Nuclearization, the Brink of War, the Brink of the Abyss,” Institute for National Security Studies, March 15, 2023, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/edge/ 

PCPSR Staff, “Public Opinion Poll No. 87,” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, March 14, 2023, http://pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2087%20English%20full%20text%20
March2023.pdf

Anshel Pfeffer, “Opinion: What on earth was Netanyahu thinking?,” CNN. March 30, 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/opinions/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-protest-judicial-pfeffer/index.html 

Barak Ravid, “First look: Experts from Israel, Arab nations to meet to discuss water, food security,” Axios, March 13, 2023, https://www.axios.com/2023/03/13/israel-arab-meet-uae-water-food-security-meeting-n7 

Haviv Rettig Gur, “The implosion of Israel’s ruling party,” Times of Israel, March 22, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-implosion-of-israels-ruling-party/ 

Haviv Rettig Gur, ” Haredi parties were at forefront of overhaul push. Then they weren’t. What changed?,” Times of Israel, March 31, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/haredi-parties-were-at-forefront-of-overhaul-push-then-they-werent-what-changed/ 

Henry Rome and Louis Dugit-Gros, “‘No deal, no crisis’ is no plan for Iran,” The Hill, March 29, 2023, https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3922002-no-deal-no-crisis-is-no-plan-for-iran/ 

Oded Ron and Muhammad Khalaily, “The Judicial Revolution and Arab Society in Israel,” Israel Democracy Institute, March 12, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/48240 

Dennis Ross, “Iran Needs to Believe America’s Threat,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 5, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/iran-needs-believe-americas-threat 

Yuval Shany, “The Judicial Reforms Implications on Israel’s Standing in the International Courts- weakening judiciary and endangering commanders,” Israel Democracy Institute, March 2, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/48084 

Michael Singh, “Iran’s Nuclear Endgame Warrants Change in US Strategy,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 28, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/irans-nuclear-endgame-warrants-change-us-strategy 

Michael Starr, “Movement for Quality Government’s Eliad Shraga fights Israeli judicial reform,” Jerusalem Post, March 10, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-733907

TOI Staff, “Knesset passes ‘Hametz Law’ allowing (requiring) hospitals to ban leavened products on Passover,” Times of Israel, March 28, 2023, https://t.co/t6znQHefmp

TOI Staff, “Despite pause, government files contentious judicial selection bill for final votes,” Times of Israel, March 28, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/despite-pause-government-files-contentious-judicial-selection-bill-for-final-votes/ 

TOI Staff, “Recordings show divisions inside Likud over pace of judicial overhaul,” Times of Israel, March 13, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/recordings-show-divisions-inside-likud-over-pace-of-judicial-overhaul/ 

TOI Staff, “Report: Israel offered PA full security duties over city as pilot, Ramallah refused,” Times of Israel, March 23, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-israel-offered-pa-full-security-duties-over-city-as-pilot-ramallah-refused/

TOI Staff, “Moody’s warns judicial shakeup could scorch Israel’s credit outlook,” Times of Israel, March 7, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/moodys-warns-judicial-shakeup-could-scorch-credit-outlook/ 

Kenneth Stein, Context and Consequences of Israel’s Proposed Judicial Overhaul, Congregation Beit Tefillah Atlanta, Center for Israel Education, Torah Center Atlanta, March 30, 2023, (1:16 video, audio)

U.S. House Subcommittees on the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, “Expanding the Abraham Accords – Hearing,” (Video), March 9, 2023, Foreign Affairs Committee, https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/expanding-the-abraham-accords/  

Universities Announce strike from tomorrow morning over judicial overhaul,” Times of Israel, March 26, 2023.

Yochanan Visser, “Analysis: Hezbollah, the Iranian Axis and the Internal Crisis in Israel,” Israel Today, March 27, 2023, https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/analysis-hezbollah-the-iranian-axis-and-the-internal-crisis-in-israel/ 

Roi Weinberger, “Israel’s risk premium rises after rejection of Herzog’s plan,” Globes, March 20,2023, https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israels-risk-premium-rises-after-rejection-of-herzogs-plan-1001441747 


#120 Contemporary Readings February 2023

March 2, 2023

March 3, 2023

Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and Wendy Kalman, Center for Israel Education

Suleiman Al-Khalidi, “Israelis, Palestinians pledge to curb violence at Jordan meeting,” Reuters, February 27, 2023, https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/jordan-hosting-israeli-palestinian-talks-avert-escalation-violence-officials-2023-02-25/ 

Ghaith al-Omari, “To Prevent the PA from Unraveling, Address Internal Reform,” Washington Institute, February 28, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/prevent-pa-unraveling-address-internal-reform 

Shlomo Avineri, “Self-Determination and Israel’s Declaration of Independence,” in Alan Baker, (ed.) Israel’s Rights as a Nation-State in International Diplomacy, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2011, https://jcpa.org/text/downloads/israels-rights-as-a-nation-state-in-international-diplomacy.pdf#page36 

Michael Bachner, “Breaking silence, Bennett admits mistakes, urges government not to act ‘power-drunk,” Times of Israel, February 5, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/breaking-silence-bennett-admits-mistakes-urges-government-not-to-act-power-drunk/ 

Ramzy Baroud, “Palestine is my cause: Arabs reaffirm support in broad survey for Palestinians, rejection of the occupation,” Jordan Times, January 31, 2023, https://jordantimes.com/
opinion/ramzy-baroud/palestine-my-cause-arabs-reaffirm-support-palestinians-rejection-occupation
 

Eliyahu Berkovits, “There’s a New Player in Haredi Politics: Voters,” Times of Israel, February 16, 2023, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/theres-a-new-player-in-haredi-politics-voters/ 

BICOM Staff, “Israel ties tightening with Chad and the Sudan,” British Israel Communications and Research Centre Morning Brief, February 3, 2023, https://mailchi.mp/bicom.org.uk/morning-brief-16817792-3jbc6aanhd-16832920?e=edd9061ca7 

BICOM Staff, “Israeli Foreign Minister visits Ukraine,” ,” British Israel Communications and Research Centre Morning Brief, February 17, 2023, https://mailchi.mp/bicom.org.uk/morning-brief-16817792-3jbc6aanhd-16834756?e=63bb4f262f 

Yonah Jeremy Bob, “Huwara attack could mark turning point for ICC Israel probe – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, February 27, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-732892

Andrew England and James Shotter, “The angry divide in Israel over the rule of law and religion,” Financial Times, February 28, 2023, https://www.ft.com/content/05f15936-882e-4a4f-a7c4-96870cc39a3e 

Seth Frantzman, “If Iran thinks Israel can’t launch a war, does its calculous change? – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, February 28, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-733009 

Jacob Frenkel and Karnit Flug, “The Proposed ‘Reform’ of the Judicial System Poses Risk to the Israeli Economy,” Israel Democracy Institute, January 31, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/47542 

Matti Friedman, Daniel Gordis, Yossi Klein Halevi, “An open letter to Israel’s friends in North America,” Times of Israel, February 2, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/an-open-letter-to-israels-friends-in-north-america/ 

Amir Fuchs, “How Many Laws Were Struck Down by the Supreme Court in Israel?,” Israel Democracy Institute, June 22, 2020, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/31874 

Elis Gjevori, “Huwwara riots: Israel’s leaders stoke flames by lauding settler attacks,” Middle East Eye, February 27, 2023, https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-huwwara-deadly-settler-riot-politicians-laud 

Tamar Hermann and Or Anabi, “Overhauling the Judicial System – What Do Israelis Think?,” Israel Democracy Institute, February 3, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/47607 

Tamar Hermann and Or Anabi, “Only a Minority of Israelis Support the Proposed Judicial Overhaul,” Israel Democracy Institute, February 23, 2033, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/47968 

Yaacov Katz, “Blinken’s judicial reform comments are a US-Israel turning point – opinion,” Jerusalem Post. February 3, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-730432 

Yaacov Katz, “Israeli judicial reform nuance: Both sides have legitimate concerns – opinion,” Jerusalem Post, February 17, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-731823 

Dalia Dassa Kaye, “Israel’s Dangerous Shadow War With Iran,” Foreign Affairs, February 27, 2023, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israels-dangerous-shadow-war-iran 

Herb Keinon, “Israel’s coalition needs to compromise unilaterally – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, February 26, 2023, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-732787 

Maayan Lubell, “Analysis: Netanyahu’s balancing act got harder after post-summit violence,” Reuters, February 27, 2023, https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/netanyahus-balancing-act-got-harder-after-post-summit-violence-2023-02-27/ 

David Makovsky, Yedidia Stern and Elyakim Rubinstein, “The Judiciary Debate and the Future of Israeli Democracy,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy Decision Points, Video https://shows.acast.com/decision-points/episodes/the-judiciary-debate-and-the-future-of-israeli-democracy

Ash Obel, “JPMorgan warns of growing risk to investing in Israel due to judicial shakeup plans,” Times of Israel, February 3, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/jpmorgan-warns-of-growing-risk-to-investing-in-israel-due-to-judicial-shakeup-plans/ 

Ariel Oseran, “Analysis: Israeli-Palestinian security coordination continues in West Bank, despite tensions,” i24 News, February 27, 2023, https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/defense/1677263977-analysis-israeli-palestinian-security-coordination-continues-in-west-bank 

Daniel Rakov, “The Netanyahu Government’s Approach to Russia and Ukraine,” Washington Institute, February 28, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/netanyahu-governments-approach-russia-and-ukraine 

Haviv Rettig Gur, “The sudden, surprising indispensability of the Israeli presidency” Times of Israel, February 20, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-sudden-surprising-indispensability-of-the-israeli-presidency/ 

Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, “Israel shouldn’t cherry-pick the American model in its judicial debate,” February 14, 2023, The Hill, https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3857233-israel-shouldnt-cherry-pick-the-american-model-in-its-judicial-debate/ 

Eli M Salzberger, “Judicial Activism in Israel,” SSRN, January 20, 2007, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=957849 

Robert Satloff, “Why Arabs should learn about the Holocaust,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 21, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/why-arabs-should-learn-about-holocaust 

Pnina Sharvit Baruch and Bell Yosef, “The Independence of the Courts and Israel’s National Security,” The Institute for National Security Studies, February 19, 2023, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/legal-reform/ 

Yedidia Stern, “No to Levin’s revolution, yes to changes in the legal system,” Jewish People Policy Institute, January 15, 2023, https://jppi.org.il/en/english-no-to-levins-revolution-yes-to-changes-in-the-legal-system/#.Y_6AbHbMIdW 

Yochanan Visser, Analysis: Israel’s changing role in the escalating Ukraine war,” Israel Today, February 29, 2023, https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/analysis-israels-changing-role-in-the-escalating-ukraine-war/ 

Jim Zinotti, “Israel: Major Issues and U.S. Relations,” Congressional Research Service, February 9, 2023, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44245 


#119 Contemporary Readings January 2023

February 6, 2023

February 3, 2023

Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and Wendy Kalman, Center for Israel Education

Abbas Al Lawati, “Israel’s rightward shift leaves its new Arab allies in an awkward spot,” CNN, January 4, 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/04/middleeast/israel-uae-ben-gvir-mime-intl/index.html 

Nidal Al-Mughrabi, “Analysis: Hamas sees West Bank as battleground with new Israel gov’t,” Reuters, January 18, 2023, https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-sees-west-bank-battleground-with-new-israel-govt-2023-01-18/ 

Eric Alterman, “Altercation The American — and Jewish — Divide Over Israel,” The American Prospect, November 18, 2022, https://prospect.org/culture/books/altercation-american-and-jewish-divide-over-israel/ 

Ramzy Baroud,  “Palestine is my cause: Arabs reaffirm support in broad survey for Palestinians, rejection of the occupation,” Jordan Times, January 31, 2023, https://jordantimes.com/opinion/ramzy-baroud/palestine-my-cause-arabs-reaffirm-support-palestinians-rejection-occupation

Lenny Ben-David, “The Evolution of AIPAC’s Political Operation in Washington over 50 Years – An Eyewitness Perspective,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 12. 2022, https://jcpa.org/article/the-evolution-of-aipacs-political-operation-in-washington-over-50-years-an-eyewitness-perspective/

Lazar Berman, “Netanyahu and Abdullah meet in Jordan, signaling they want to move past tensions,” Times of Israel, January 24, 2023.

BICOM Staff, “Bicom Morning Brief: Deri Fired from Ministerial Posts,” Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, January 23, 2023, https://mailchi.mp/bicom.org.uk/morning-brief-16817792-3jbc6aanhd-16831384?e=63bb4f262f 

Center for Peace Communications and TOI Staff, “What’s life like under Hamas? ‘Whispered in Gaza’ offers unique, courageous testimony,” Times of Israel, January 16, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/whats-life-like-under-hamas-whispered-in-gaza-offers-unique-courageous-testimony 

Udi Dekel, “The Day After Abbas: Possible Scenarios and the Strategic Significances for Israel,” The Institute for National Security Studies, undated, https://www.inss.org.il/research/day-abbas-possible-scenarios-strategic-significances-israel/ 

Udi Dekel and Noa Schusterman, “Memorandum 225: The Day after Abbas: Strategic Implications for Israel,” The Institute for National Security Studies, December 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-day-after-abu-mazen/  

Charles Dunne, “Arab, Israeli positions on Ukraine continue to frustrate US,” Responsible Statecraft, January 29, 2023, https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/01/29/arab-and-israeli-positions-on-ukraine-war-continue-to-frustrate-us/ 

Asaf Elia-Shalev, “Far-right Maoz seeks to end Diaspora donations to pluralistic school education,” Times of Israel, February 1, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-maoz-seeks-to-end-diaspora-donations-to-pluralistic-school-education/ 

Seth Frantzman, “How Israel is preparing the next generation of cyber soldiers,” DefenseNews, November 29, 2022, https://www.defensenews.com/interviews/2022/11/29/how-israel-is-preparing-the-next-generation-of-cyber-soldiers/ 

Haviv Rettig Gur, “Who Runs Netanyahu’s Israel?” Times of Israel, January 11,2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/who-runs-netanyahus-israel/ 

Michael Harari, “Is a formal Israeli-Saudi agreement achievable,” Mitvim, January 2023, https://mitvim.org.il/en/publication/is-a-formal-israeli-saudi-agreement-achievable/ 

Tamar Herman and Or Anabi, (Israel) Majority Think Too Many Concessions Made to Coalition Partners, Israel Democracy Institute, January 4, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/47050 

David Horowitz, “Netanyahu truly aims to be ‘King Bibi’ now. We must use all legal means to thwart him,” Times of Israel, January 25, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-truly-is-king-bibi-now-israelis-must-use-all-legal-means-to-thwart-him 

IDI Staff, “All You Wanted to Know About the Planned Judicial Overhaul,” Israel Democracy Institute, January 20, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/tags-en/47383?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_3_11_2021_16_7_COPY_01 

David Ignatius, “Opinion  The U.S.-Israel military simulation is a show of force to Iran,” The Washington Post, January 26, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/26/us-military-israel-joint-exercise-iran/ 

IPF Task Force Staff, “Critical Neighbors: Egypt, Jordan, and the Israeli-Palestinian Arena,”) Israel Policy Forum, May 2022-January 2023 https://israelpolicyforum.org/critical-neighbors-egypt-jordan-and-the-israeli-palestinian-arena 

JFNA Staff, “Jewish Federations Briefing on the New Israeli Government with the Israel Democracy Institute,” Jan. 4, 2023, Jewish Federations of North America, https://youtu.be/WtVeBYS1SsM 

Adi Kantor, Udi Dekel and Noa Schusterman, Podcast: “The Day after Abbas: Strategic Implications for Israel,” The Institute for National Security Studies, January 18, 2023, www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKZwHEsUW3o   

Richard LeBaron, “People-to-people exchanges matter. They’re integral to nurturing the Abraham Accords.” Atlantic Council, January 26, 2023, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/people-to-people-exchanges-matter-theyre-integral-to-nurturing-the-abraham-accords/ 

Eran Lerman, “The Battle Over Israel’s Judicial Reforms,” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, January 2023, https://jstribune.com/lerman-the-battle-over-israels-judicial-reforms/ 

Edward N. Luttwak, “The Failed British Double Cross of Israel,” Tablet, November 29,2022, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/failed-british-double-cross-israel 

David Makovsky and Ben Caspit, “Decision Points: Grappling with the Direction of the New Netanyahu Government,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 23, 2023,  https://youtube.com/watch?v=FmKycowuDp8  (all of Season 4: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/decision-points-podcast-season-4

Kobi Michael, “The ‘Intifada Cognition’ of the Young Palestinians,” The Institute for National Security Studies, January 29, 2023, https://www.inss.org.il/social_media/the-cognition-behind-the-intifada-of-the-young-palestinians/ 

Debbie Mohnblatt, “Walking a Tightrope: Netanyahu May Have Taken a Calculated Risk in Allowing Ben-Gvir’s Early Morning Temple Mount Visit,” The Media Line, January 3, 2022, https://themedialine.org/by-region/walking-a-tightrope-netanyahu-may-have-taken-a-calculated-risk-in-allowing-ben-gvirs-early-morning-temple-mount-visit/ 

Artemis Moshtaghian and Mohammed Tawfeeq, “Israel was behind drone attacks at military plant in Iran, US media report,” CNN, January 30, 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/30/middleeast/drone-strikes-iran-isfahan-intl/index.html 

Danielle Nagler, “US developer pays over $200 million for slice of central Jerusalem,” Times of Israel, January 20, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-developer-pays-over-200-million-for-slice-of-central-jerusalem/ 

Colonel Jacques Neriah, “Foreign Policy Forecast for the Middle East in 2023,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 11, 2023, https://jcpa.org/article/foreign-policy-forecast-for-the-middle-east-in-2023/ 

Tom O’Connor, “Exclusive: Iran Keeps Building Air Defense Network in Syria, Israel Keeps Bombing It,” Newsweek, January 10, 2023, https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-iran-keeps-building-air-defense-network-syria-israel-keeps-bombing-it-1772013 

JP O’Malley, ” How the ‘Jewish Kennedys’ helped save 200,000 Jews in WWII and delayed Iranian nukes,” Times of Israel, January 21, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-the-jewish-kennedys-helped-save-200000-jews-in-wwii-and-delayed-iranian-nukes

PCPSR Staff, “Palestinian-Israeli Pulse: A Joint Poll: Support for a two-state solution among Palestinians and Israelis declines to just one-third on each side; growing opposition to a permanent peace agreement for implementing a two state solution. Palestine Policy Center Survey Research, January 24, 2023, https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Summary%2
0Report_%20English_Joint%20Poll%2024%20Jan%202023.pdf
 

Yohanan Plessner, “What Are the Challenges to Israel’s Democracy?” Israel Democracy Institute, December 9, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/46652 

David Pollock, “Israel’s Power Shift: To Bibi, or Not to Bibi,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 11, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israels-power-shift-bibi-or-not-bibi 

Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz. “Almost half of Israelis think that the diaspora Jewry should be part of the public debate on the Law of Return, Israel Democracy Institute, January 25, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/experts/36244 

Paul Salem, Howard Eissenstat, Alex Vatanka, Nimrod Goren, Khaled Elgindy, Mirette F. Mabrouk, Gerald M. Feierstein, Intissar Fakir, Jonathan M. Winer, Charles Lister, Randa Slim, Marvin G. Weinbaum, Mohammed Mahmoud, Brian Katulis, 15 assessments: “A turbulent year for MENA in 2023: Economic stresses, political instability, and the need for decisive leadership,” Middle East Institute, January 30, 2023, https://www.mei.edu/publications/
turbulent-year-mena-2023-economic-stresses-political-instability-and-need-decisive
 

Ksenia Svetlova, “Ben-Gvir’s controversial new position angered the Arab world. But how will it impact a potential peace deal with Saudi Arabia?,” Atlantic Council, January 30, 2023, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/ben-gvirs-controversial-new-position-angered-the-arab-world-but-how-will-it-impact-a-potential-peace-deal-with-saudi-arabia/ 

Izabella Tabarovsky, “Mahmoud Abbas’ Dissertation,” Tablet, January 18, 2023, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/mahmoud-abbas-soviet-dissertation 

TOI Staff, “Netanyahu vows to maintain Temple Mount status quo in meeting with Jordanian king,” Times of Israel, January 25, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-vows-to-maintain-temple-mount-status-quo-in-meeting-with-jordanian-king 

TOI Staff, “Reform or ruin? The next coalition’s plans for the judiciary,” Times of Israel, December 8, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/join-tois-live-event-reform-or-ruin-the-next-coalitions-plans-for-the-judiciary/ 

TOI Staff and Lazar Berman, “Antisemitic book that spurred Israeli complaint is taken off shelves at Cairo fair,” Times of Israel, January 30, 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/antisemitic-book-that-spurred-israeli-complaint-is-taken-off-shelves-at-cairo-fair/ 

Sharon Wrobel, “For first time in 35 Years, Israel posts budget surplus driven by higher tax revenue,” Times of Israel, January 11, 2023.

Kenneth Stein, “The Jordanian, Israeli and Palestinian Triangle,” Center for Israel Education, January 26, 2023.

Moshe Zaq, “Thirty Years of Clandestine Meetings The Jordanian-Israeli Peace Treaty,”, Middle East Quarterly, March 1995, pp. 53-59, https://www.meforum.org/241/thirty-years-of-clandestine-meetings 


#118 Contemporary Readings December 2022

January 6, 2023

Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and Wendy Kalman, Center for Israel Education

“37th Government of the State of Israel and 25th Knesset is Sworn in,” [links to speeches by PM Benjamin Netanyahu, opposition leader Yair Lapid, Knesset speaker Amir Ohana], Knesset website, December 29, 2022, https://main.knesset.gov.il/EN/News/PressReleases/Pages/press291222r.aspx 

Khalil Al-Anani, Yara M. Asi, Amal Ghazal, Imad K. Harb, Khalil E. Jahshan, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, “The Biden Administration and the Middle East in 2023,” Arab Center Washington DC, January 4, 2023, https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/the-biden-administration-and-the-middle-east-in-2023/ 

Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Dan Williams and Aziz El Yaakoubi, “Analysis: New Arab allies face quandary as Israel shifts hard-right,” Reuters, January 5, 2023, https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/new-arab-allies-face-quandary-israel-shifts-hard-right-2023-01-05/ 

Jon B. Alterman, “India’s Middle East Strategy,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 13, 2022, https://www.csis.org/analysis/indias-middle-east-strategy 

Ramzy Baroud, “Israel was never a democracy: So why is the West lamenting end of ‘liberal’ Israel?,” The Jordan Times, January 3, 2023, https://jordantimes.com/opinion/ramzy-baroud/israel-was-never-democracy-so-why-west-lamenting-end-%E2%80%98liberal%E2%80%99-israel 

Lenny Ben-David, “The Evolution of AIPAC’s Political Operation in Washington over 50 Years – An Eyewitness Perspective,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 12. 2022, https://jcpa.org/article/the-evolution-of-aipacs-political-operation-in-washington-over-50-years-an-eyewitness-perspective/

Calev Ben Dor, “Episode 194: The National Religious Vote,” BICOM Podcast, December 7, 2022, https://www.bicom.org.uk/podcast/episode-194-the-national-religious-vote/ 

BICOM staff, “Civil Society Pushes Back on New Government Appointment,” BICOM, December 5, 2022, https://www.bicom.org.uk/news/civil-society-pushes-back-on-new-government-appointment/ 

Elias Breuer and Tzvi Joffre, “Netanyahu requests extension to mandate to form coalition Agreement,” Jerusalem Post, December 8, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-724328 

Udi Dekel, “From Slow to Accelerated Annexation: Transferring the Civil Administration from the Minister of Defense to the Minister of Settlement,” INSS, December 13, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/No.-1668.pdf 

Seth Frantzman, “Israel-Turkey ties will be in spotlight of new Israel government – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, December 29, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-726117 

Nimrod Goren, “What the UN vote tells us about international sentiments and Israeli diplomacy,” Middle East Institute, January 4, 2023, https://www.mei.edu/blog/what-un-vote-tells-us-about-international-sentiments-and-israeli-diplomacy 

Masjid Halabi, “To Forge Ties with Saudi Arabia, Israel must respect its concerns,” Y-Net, December 30, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyqgorwti 

Israel’s Basic Laws, “The Knesset Explanation,”  https://m.knesset.gov.il/en/activity/pages/basiclaws.aspx

Tamar Herman and Or Anabi, “Majority Think Too Many Concessions Made to Coalition Partners,” Israel Democracy Institute, January 4, 2023, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/47050 

Clara Keuss, “Jordan is Buying Iran’s Palestine Fallacy,” American Enterprise Institute, January 3, 2023, https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/jordan-is-buying-irans-palestine-fallacy/ 

Carrie Keller-Lynn, “Netanyahu puts extremist homophobic politician in charge of Israel’s Jewish identity,” Times of Israel, November 27, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-puts-extremist-homophobic-politician-in-charge-of-israels-jewish-identity/ 

David Klein, “Oman, once considered next Abraham Accords signer, criminalizes relations with Israel,” ynet, January 4, 2023, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sk51c8m5i 

Yossi Klein Halevi, “The Jewish Path Back to Israeli Democracy,” Shalom Hartman Institute, January 5, 2023, https://www.hartman.org.il/the-jewish-path-back-to-israeli-democracy/ 

Arie Krampf, “The Netanyahu Doctrine,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, November 2022, https://jstribune.com/krampf-the-netanyahu-doctrine/ 

Ben Lefkowitz, “The Israeli-Lebanese Maritime Agreement Was a Strategic Misstep,” American Enterprise Institute, January 4, 2023, https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/the-israeli-lebanese-maritime-agreement-was-a-strategic-misstep/ 

Edward N. Luttwak, “The Failed British Double Cross of Israel,” Tablet, November 29,2022, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/failed-british-double-cross-israel 

Yiftach Mandelbaum, “Hendel slams political demands that will delay 5G,” Globes, December 29, 2022, https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-hendel-slams-political-demands-that-will-delay-5g-1001434133 

Debbie Mohnblatt, “Walking a Tightrope: Netanyahu May Have Taken a Calculated Risk in Allowing Ben-Gvir’s Early Morning Temple Mount Visit,” The Media Line, January 3, 2022, https://themedialine.org/by-region/walking-a-tightrope-netanyahu-may-have-taken-a-calculated-risk-in-allowing-ben-gvirs-early-morning-temple-mount-visit/ 

Jack Omer-Jackaman, “The Progressive Friend of Israel in the era of Ben Gvir: Prospects and Tasks,” Fathom Journal, Winter 2022, https://fathomjournal.org/the-progressive-friend-of-israel-in-the-era-of-ben-gvir-prospects-and-tasks/ 

Yohanan Plesner, “What are the Challenges to Israeli Democracy?” December 9, 2022, Israel Democracy Institute, December 9, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/46652 

Barak Ravid, “Scoop: Netanyahu asked for Ukraine’s support at the UN — and Zelensky asked for military aid,” Axios, December 31, 2022, https://www.axios.com/2022/12/31/netanyahu-zelensky-ukraine-israel-occupation-un-icj 

Jonathan Schanzer, “Neither Here nor There: Jordan and the Abraham Accords,” Research Memo, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, December 8, 2022, https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/fdd-memo-neither-here-nor-there-jordan-and-the-abraham-accords.pdf 

Ari Shavit, “Far-right will drive Israelis to the streets en masse,” Y-Net, December 8, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjigk4k00j 

Eldad Shavit, “From Jerusalem to Washington: The Significance of Israel’s New Government,” INSS, December 21, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/biden-new-israeli-government/ 

Ofer Shela, “National Security Decisionmaking Processes in Israel,” RAND Corporation, November 15, 2022, https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA2156-1.html 

Sima Shine and Eldad Shavit, “The Iranian Challenge Intensifies, while the International System seems Otherwise Engaged,” INSS, December 8, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/iran-and-global-arena/

 Nimr Sultany, “The Legacy of Justice Aharon Barak: A Critical Review.” Harvard ILJ On-Line, April 2007, Vol. 48, pp. 83-92, https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17286/1/Legacy%20of%20Barak.pdf

Times of Israel staff, “As Netanyahu’s coalition deadline nears, Likud signs interim deal with UTJ,” Times of Israel, December 6, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-netanyahu-closes-in-on-coalition-deadline-likud-signs-interim-deal-with-utj/ 

Times of Israel staff, “Ben Gvir to get newly created role of national security minister in deal with Likud,” Times of Israel, November 25, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/likud-said-to-make-progress-in-coalition-talks-with-otzma-yehudit-shas/ 

Times of Israel staff, “Who’s who in the New Netanyahu-led government, Times of Israel, December 29, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/whos-who-in-the-new-netanyahu-led-government/ 

Times of Israel, “Reform or ruin? The next coalition’s plans for the judiciary,” December 8, 2022, five speakers, 2:15 video, https://www.timesofisrael.com/join-tois-live-event-reform-or-ruin-the-next-coalitions-plans-for-the-judiciary/

Ori Wertman and Meir Elran, “The Israeli Electorate from the Perspective of the 2022 Elections,” INSS, December 1, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/israel-elections-2022/ 

Dov S. Zakehim, “The Middle East in the New US National Security Strategy,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, November 2022, https://jstribune.com/zakheim-the-middle-east-in-the-new-us-national-security-strategy/ 


#117 Contemporary Readings November 2022

December 5, 2022

Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and Wendy Kalman,  Center for Israel Education

Stewart Ain, “Are Birthright participants more likely to marry Jews? A study says yes,” The Forward, November 14, 2022, https://forward.com/fast-forward/524798/birthright-israel-marriage-pew/ 

Antebi, “Iranian Drones in Ukrainian Skies: Not the Battlefield of the Future that Was Expected,” INSS, October 31, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/ukraine-uav/ 

Shlomo Avineri, David Makovsky host, “Herzl’s Chutzpah: Unpacking a Founder’s Vision,” Decision Points, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 17, 2022, https://play.acast.com/s/5db0a7590a8d06631ea7967e/636571f36087460011869008  (Full season: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/decision-points-podcast-season-4

Gershon Baskin, “Political Battle: Is Israel more Jewish or more Israeli?,” Jerusalem Post, November 17, 2022, https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-722585   

Meir Ben-Shabbat, “The Abraham Accords at Year Two: A Work Plan for Strengthening and Expansion,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, November 2022, https://t.co/qWcpvWj5U1 https://t.co/qWcpvWj5U1

Gideon Bromberg, “Bringing Water Security for Palestinians and Israelis: A Call for a “Green Blue Deal” for the Middle East,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, November 2022, https://t.co/l2uUIjBiKD

Petra Dachtler, “From New to Normal: Two Years after the Abraham Accords,” German Institute for Global and Area Studies, August 2022, https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publications/giga-focus/from-new-to-normal-two-years-after-the-abraham-accords 

Hillel Halkin, David Makovsky host, “Jabotinsky and the Birth of the Israeli Right,” Decision Points, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 28, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/decision-points-podcast-season-4

Simon Davies and Joshua Hantman, :How Netanyahu and his allies won by a knockout: The data.” Times of Israel, November 7, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-netanyahu-and-his-allies-won-by-a-knockout-the-data/ 

Yaacov Katz, “Yair Lapid to ‘Post’: Centrism will win through hope and optimism, Jerusalem Post, October 28, 2022, https://t.co/D2x01iVDL7

Yossi Klein Halevi, “What Netanyahu’s comeback means for Israel,” The Globe and Mail, November 2, 2022, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-netanyahu-election-results-israel 

David Horovitz, “Netanyahu, who mainstreamed Israel’s radicals, now the last obstacle to their agenda,” Times of Israel, November 6, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-who-mainstreamed-israels-radicals-now-the-last-obstacle-to-their-agenda 

Arie Krampf, “The Netanyahu Doctrine,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, November 2022, https://jstribune.com/krampf-the-netanyahu-doctrine/

Ephraim Lavie, Mohammed Wattad, Aref Abu Gweder, Ilham Shahbari, Jony Essa and Meir Elran “Arab society in Israel and the Elections to the 25th Knesset,” INSS, November 20, 2022, (in depth, incisive) https://www.inss.org.il/publication/elections-2022-arab-society 

Jacob Magid, Biden elevates “State Department official to new role solely focused on Palestinians,” Times of Israel, November 23, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/biden-elevates-state-dept-official-to-new-role-solely-focused-on-palestinians/ 

Walter Russell Mead, David Makovsky host, “Genesis of American Support for Israel: The Gentile Push for a Jewish State,” Decision Points, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 31, 2022, https://play.acast.com/s/5db0a7590a8d06631ea7967e/635c3aa282b77a0012302b29 (Full season: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/decision-points-podcast-season-4)

Jacob Metzer, The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine, Cambridge University Press,  1988, https://yplus.ps/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/General-Metzer-Jacob-The-Divided-Economy-of-Mandatory-Palestine.pdf  (250 pp)

Jack Mukand, “Netanyahu is ‘not a man who believes in peace,’ says Mahmoud Abbas in rare interview,” Times of Israel, November 14, 2022,   https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-is-not-a-man-who-believes-in-peace-says-mahmoud-abbas-in-rare-interview/ 

Jonah Naghi, “Bridging the gulf between Israel’s Arab citizens and the Gulf,” Times of Israel, October 19, 2022, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/bridging-the-gulf-between-israels-arab-citizens-and-the-gulf 

Haviv Rettig Gur, “The Israeli left has lost more than an election,” Times of Israel, November 7, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-israeli-left-has-lost-more-than-an-election/ 

Henry Rome and Louis Dugit-Gros, “New EU Sanctions Indicate More Willingness to hold Tehran Accountable,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 15, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/new-eu-sanctions-indicate-more-willingness-hold-tehran-accountable 

Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, “A Narrow Government with Ben Gvir and Smotrich Threatens US-Israel Ties,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 2, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/narrow-government-ben-gvir-and-smotrich-threatens-us-israel-ties 

Itamar Rabinovich, “Testing the “Israel Lobby” Thesis, reprinted from The American Interest, March/April 2008 (with permission of the author). 

Arik Rudnitzky, “Arab votes for the 2022 Israel Elections — Analysis,” Israel Democracy Institute, November 9, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/46271 

Paul Scham, “Israel’s election produces a clear winner — and a lurch further to the right,” Middle East Institute, November 3, 2022, https://www.mei.edu/publications/israels-election-produces-clear-winner-and-lurch-further-right 

Yoron Schneider and Rom Zimmt, “A New Government in Iraq: The Significance for Tehran and the Iranian Camp,” INSS, November 15, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/iraq-new-government/ 

Ken Stein, “The US-Israeli Relationship,” Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society, November 2020. 50pp.

Marilyn Stern, “Joshua Teitelbaum on Israel and the Persian Gulf: Dawn of a New Era,” webinar, Middle East Forum, October 31, 2022, https://www.meforum.org/63763/joshua-teitelbaum-on-israel-and-the-persian-gulf  

Chaim Sukenik, “The key to haredi integration in Israeli society is education — opinion,” The Jerusalem Post, November 22, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-723322 

TOI staff, “8.7% of votes went to parties that failed to enter Knesset, the highest in over 3 decades,” Times of Israel, November 8, 2022. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/8-7-of-votes-went-to-parties-that-failed-to-enter-knesset-the-highest-in-over-3-decades/  

TOI staff and agencies, “Palestinian Authority PM: Israeli power swap is ‘difference between Pepsi and Coke,” Times of Israel, November 3, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-authority-pm-israeli-power-swap-is-difference-between-pepsi-and-coke/ 

Dov S. Zakehim, “The Middle East in the New US National Security Strategy,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, November 2022, https://jstribune.com/zakheim-the-middle-east-in-the-new-us-national-security-strategy/


#116 Contemporary Readings October 2022

November 5, 2022

Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and the Center for Israel Education

Kenstein@israeled.org

November 3, 2022

Marie Abdi, “Where is the US’s red line on Iran’s protests?” Middle East Institute, October 24, 2022, https://www.mei.edu/publications/where-uss-red-line-irans-protests

AFP, “Algeria president urges Arab unity to confront ‘tensions and crises,” Ahram Online, November 1, 2022, https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/478940/World/Region/
Algeria-president-urges-Arab-unity-to-confront-;te.aspx

AFP, “As Israel’s far right parties celebrate, Palestinians shrug,” Ahram Online, November 3, 2022, https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/479066.aspx

Al Jazeera staff/news agencies, “Palestinian leader Abbas meets Putin, rules out US mediator role,” Al Jazeera, October 13, 2022, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/13/putin-meets-palestinian-leader-abbas-in-astana

Suleiman Al-Khalidi, “Analysis: Arabs view revived Netanyahu with concern but as balance against Iran,” Reuters, November 2, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/arabs-view-revived-netanyahu-with-concern-balance-against-iran-2022-11-02/

Liran Antebi, “Iranian Drones in Ukrainian Skies: Not the Battlefield of the Future that Was Expected,” INSS, October 31, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/ukraine-uav/

Ehud Barak, “When Israel Struck Syria’s Reactor: What Really Happened,” Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2022, Vol. 29, No. 4 https://www.meforum.org/63517/when-israel-struck-syrias-reactor  

Lazar Berman, “Leaked text of Lebanon-Israel maritime deal underscores its ambiguity,” Times of Israel, October 12, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/leaked-text-of-lebanon-israel-maritime-deal-underscores-its-ambiguity/

Udi Dekel, “The Lion’s Den: A Wake-Up Call [by Palestinians] for Imminent Challenges [to Israel], INSS, October 19, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/lions-den/

Gerald M. Feierstein and Yoel Guzansky, “The Arab Peace Initiative returns. Will it supplant the Abraham Accords?,” Middle East Institute, October 27, 2022, https://www.mei.edu/publications/arab-peace-initiative-returns-will-it-supplant-abraham-accords

Ariel Finkelstein, Ayala Goldberg, Adv. Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz , “Who is a Jew? Survey on Religion and State,Israel Democracy Institute, September 21, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/45962

Robert O. Friedman, “Israel’s Tightrope between Russia and Ukraine,” Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2022, Vol. 29, No. 4, https://www.meforum.org/63520/israel-tightrope-between-russia-and-ukraine

Simon Henderson, “Israel’s Karish Offshore Gas Field: Facts and Figures,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 14, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israels-karish-offshore-gas-field-facts-and-figures

Simon Henderson, Hanin Ghaddar, Matthew Levitt, Ehud Yaari, David Makovsky, David Schenker, Andrew J. Tabler ,“Israel’s Karish Gas Fields: Diplomatic Opportunity or Casus Belli?” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 22, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israels-karish-gas-field-diplomatic-opportunity-or-casus-belli

Tamar Hermann and Or Anabi, “39% of Israelis Do Not Trust the Purity of the Knesset Elections,” The Israel Democracy Institute, October 28, 2022. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/46175

Sivan Hilaie, Elisha Ben Kimon, Kobi Nachshoni, Einav Halabi , “Israeli parties prepare for crucial battles ahead of November 1 elections,” Y-Net, October 2, 2022 (multiple authors), https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjd71suzi

Yaacov Katz, “Yair Lapid to ‘Post’: Centrism will win through hope and optimism, JerusalemPost, October 28, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/israel-elections/article-720826

Sheldon Kirshner, “Anti-Semitism: 2000 years of history,” Times of Israel, September 22, 2022, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/anti-semitism-2000-years-of-history/

Elias Leight, Kanye West Documentary Scrapped by Producer MRC After Antisemitic Comments,Billboard, October 24, 2022, https://www.billboard.com/business/business-news/kanye-west-documentary-canceled-producer-mrc-antisemitism-1235160273/

Jonathan Lincoln, “Middle East Peace: The Biden Administration’s Approach,” RANDCorporation, August 31, 2022, https://www.rand.org/blog/2022/08/middle-east-peace-the-biden-administrations-approach.html

David Makovsky and Tamar Hermann, “Israel Goes to the Polls: the State of the Race Less Than One Week Out,” (1:07 video), Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 27, 2022,  https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israel-goes-polls-state-race-less-one-week-out

Walter Russell Mead, (David Makovsky host), “Decision Points Podcast: Genesis of American Support for Israel: The Gentile Push for a Jewish State,” October 31, 2022, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/decision-points-podcast-season-4#episode-1-genesis-of-american-support-for-israel-the-gentile-push-for-a-jewish-state

Media Line, “Israel’s elections: scenarios, upsets and intrigue,” Ynet News, October 27, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyahdtdej

Orna Mizrahi, “The Agreement with Lebanon: The Benefits Outweigh the Drawbacks,” INSS, October 25, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/israel-lebanon-agreement/

PCPSR Staff, “West Bank and Gaza Public Opinion Poll No. 85,” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, October 2, 2022, https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/920

Dennis Ross, “When There’s Good News about the Middle East, We Should Take Note,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 17, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/when-theres-good-news-about-middle-east-we-should-take-note

Arik Rudnitzky, “Arab Politics in the 2022 Election Campaign,” Israel Democracy Institute, October 18, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/46056

Yoram Schweitzer and Orna Mizrahi, “The Maritime Border Agreement: What Israel and Lebanon Gain, and Hezbollah’s Position,” podcast (26:41), INSS, October 24, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/podcast/the-maritime-border-agreement-what-israel-and-lebanon-gain-and-hezbollahs-position/

Ksenia Svetlova, “The Israel-Lebanon maritime deal is an example of successful US-led mediation. Can it be copy-pasted to other Middle Eastern arenas?,” Atlantic Council, October 28, 2022, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/the-israel-lebanon-maritime-deal-is-an-example-of-successful-us-led-mediation-can-it-be-copy-pasted-to-other-middle-eastern-arenas/


#115 Contemporary Readings September 2022

September 30, 2022

Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and the Center for Israel Education

Kenstein@israeled.org

October 1, 2022

Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and the Center for Israel Education, kenstein@israeled.org 

Mohamed Abdelaziz , “In New Poll, Most Egyptians Split on Relations with Foreign Powers, Pessimistic About Domestic Economy,”  The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 9, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/new-poll-most-egyptians-split-relations-foreign-powers-pessimistic-about-domestic 

James Doubek, “50 years ago, the Munich Olympics massacre changed how we think about terrorism,” NPR, September 4, 2022, https://www.npr.org/2022/09/04/1116641214/munich-olympics-massacre-hostage-terrorism-israel-germany 

Hassan Elbahtimy, “Diplomacy under the nuclear shadow: Kennedy, Nasser and Dimona,” Middle Eastern Studies, June 11, 2022, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/
00263206.2022.2083109?src=
 

Asaf Elia-Shalev, “Israel to measure inequality between Mizrahi and Ashkenazi Jews with new statistics,”  JTA, September 8, 2022,  https://www.jta.org/2022/09/08/israel/israel-to-measure-inequality-between-mizrahi-and-ashkenazi-jews-with-new-statistics  

Tomer Fallon and Estaban Klorfein, “The Israeli Economy in an Uncertain Global Environment,” INSS, August 31, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/israel-economy/ 

Amos Gilead, Ephraim Sneh, Ehud Yaari and Amos Yadlin, “Israeli National Security on the Eve of Yet Another Election,” Washington Institute, September 22, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israeli-national-security-eve-yet-another-election-forum-memory-zeev-schiff 

Tamar Herman and Or Anabi, “On the Eve of the Jewish New Year: How Optimistic Are Israelis and What Are Their Opinions on Iran and the Two-State Solution?” Israel Democracy Institute, September 25, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/46000 

Avi Issacharoff, “Israel doesn’t have an alternative to Palestinian Authority,” YNet, September 7, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1vdk6rgs 

Yaakov Katz, “Iran nuclear program hasn’t crossed Israel’s red line yet,” Jerusalem Post, September 8, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-716694 

Yaacov Katz, “Netanyahu has finally removed ‘liberal’ from the Likud’s identity,” Jerusalem Post, September 16, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-717259 

Yaacov Katz, “Rosh Hashanah: What image best embodies the past Jewish Year,” Jerusalem Post, September 22, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-717949 

Avi Kumar, “Forty-five years on, Vietnamese refugees are still writing their Israeli story,” Intermountain Jewish News, July 14, 2022, https://www.ijn.com/vietnamese-refugees-israelis/ 

Walid Ladadweh and Khalil Shikaki, “Can the Demographic Advantage be an Effective Weapon in the Struggle to Achieve Palestinian Rights?” Palestinian Center for Policy and Research,  September 2022, https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Brief%203_2022_Ladadweh_Shikaki%20on%20Demography_English%20transl.pdf

Lapid, Yair, Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, September 27, 2022, https://israeled.org/resources/documents/israel-prime-minister-yair-lapids-speech-to-the-united-nations-general-assembly/

Lev-Ram, Tal, “The Challenges Facing the Next Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, September 2022, https://jstribune.com/lev-ram-the-challenges-facing-the-next-idf-chief-of-staff/

Navon, Emmanuel, “Leveraging the Abraham Accords for Israel’s Relations with Europe,” The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, September 29, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/navon-leveraging-the-abraham-accords-for-israels-relations-with-europe/

Dan Perry, “Springtime for Ben Gvir,” Times of Israel, September 27, 2022,  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/springtime-for-ben-gvir 

David Pollock, “New Saudi Poll Shows Biden’s Visit Barely Budged Skepticism,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 30, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/new-saudi-poll-shows-bidens-visit-barely-budged-skepticism 

David Pollock, “July/August 2022 UAE Survey Shows U.S. Leads Iran, but Lags Russia and China,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 30, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/julyaugust-2022-uae-survey-shows-us-leads-iran-lags-russia-and-china 

Shmuel Sandler, “From Tribal to Territorial Democracy: How can Israel emerge from its political abyss?” Jewish Political Studies Review, July 2022, https://jcpa.org/article/from-tribal-to-territorial-democracy-how-can-israel-emerge-from-its-political-abyss/ 

Attila Somfalvi, “Israel’s November Elections: What’s It All About,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, August 2022, https://jstribune.com/somfalvi-israels-november-elections/

Chen Artzi Sror, “The miseducation of religious Jewish children,” YNet, September 12, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjku1tnli 

Svetlova, Ksenia, “The Lost Opportunity of Mahmoud Abbas,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, August 2022, https://jstribune.com/svetlova-the-lost-opportunity-of-mahmoud-abbas/

Dov Zakheim, “Turkey, Israel, and the Road to Capitol Hill, The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, September 2022, https://jstribune.com/zakheim-turkey-israel-and-the-road-to-capitol-hill/ 

Neil Zilber, “What if Netanyahu Wins?” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 24, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/what-if-netanyahu-wins 

Zinotti, Jim, “Israel Background and U.S. Relations in Brief,” Congressional Research Service, 

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/mideast/R44245.pdf

Raz Zimmt, “Islamic Republic or Islamic Monarchy? The Possible Transfer of Power in Iran to the Supreme Leader’s Son,” INSS, September 18, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/
mujtaba-khamenei/
 


#114 Contemporary Readings August 2022

September 4, 2022

Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and the Center for Israel Education, kenstein@israeled.org 

Or Anabi, “The Democratic Characteristics of [Israeli] voters, Israel Democracy Institute, August 1, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/39409 

Ibrahim Awad, “Arab Nationalism, Regionalism, and Regional Integration,” The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Winter 2022, https://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/arab-nationalism-regionalism-and-regional-integration/ 

Maysam Bazaer, “What Iran’s emerging demographic “tsunami” means for Tehran,” Middle East Institute, August 25, 2022, https://www.mei.edu/publications/what-irans-emerging-demographic-tsunami-means-tehran 

Ricky Ben-David, “Cost of living, economy are top priority for voters in upcoming election — survey,” Times of Israel, August 10, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/cost-of-living-economy-are-top-priority-for-voters-in-upcoming-election-survey/ 

Mordechai Chaziza.  “Israel-China Relations in an Era of Strategic Rivalry and Great Power Competition,” INSS, July 2022, https://strategicassessment.inss.org.il/en/articles/israel-china-relations-in-an-era-of-strategic-rivalry-and-great-power-competition/ 

Steven A. Cook, “How Israel and Turkey Benefit From Restoring Relations,” Council of Foreign Relations, August 23, 2022, https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/how-israel-and-turkey-benefit-restoring-relations 

Hillel Frisch, “Normalizing Relations Between Israel and the Arab World Continues Calmly in a Turbulent World,” August 9, 2022, Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, https://jiss.org.il/en/frisch-normalizing-relations-between-israel-and-the-arab-world/ 

Naftali Granot, “Hezbollah’s threats against Israeli Gas rigs,” The Miryam Institute, August 15, 2022,  https://www.miryaminstitute.org/commentary-blog/hezbollahs-threats-against-israeli-gas-rig-possible-miscalculations

Judah Ari Gross, “In Basel, Israeli minister urges paradigm change on Israel-Diaspora relations,” Times of Israel, August 28, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/in-basel-israeli-minister-urges-paradigm-change-on-israel-diaspora-relations/ 

Marinanne Guenot,  “The US had a plan in the 1960s to blast an alternative Suez Canal through Israel using 520 nuclear bombs,” Business Insider, March 25, 2021, https://www.businessinsider.com/us-planned-suez-canal-alternative-israel-blast-with-nuclear-bombs-1960s-2021-3 

Tawfiq Hamid, “The Intellectual revolution that the Arab world needs,” Middle East Broadcasting Network, August 5, 2022, https://www-alhurra-com.translate.goog/different- 

Tamar Hermann, Or Anabi and Yaron Kaplan, “Israelis Say They Base Their Vote on Party’s Economic Platform,” August 7, 2022, Israel Democracy Institute Voice Index, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/39510   

Aryeh Lightstone, “Behind the Curtain at the Creation of the Abraham Accords,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, July 2022, https://jstribune.com/lightstone-behind-the-curtain-of-the-abraham-accords/ 

Gallia Lindenstrauss and Remi Daniel, “Normalization between Turkey and Israel: will it last, INSS, August 28, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/turkey-israel-normalization/ 

Media Line, “India’s growing ties with Israel can make it a great mediator,” Ynet News, August 19, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjumz1nc9  

Sayid Hossein Mousavian, “A Revolution and A War: How Iran Transformed Today’s Middle East,” Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Winter 2022, https://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/a-revolution-and-a-war-how-iran-transformed-todays-middle-east/ 

Jacob Nagel and Jonathan Schanzer, “Another Iran Deal? Looking Back and Looking Ahead,” The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, August 18, 2022, https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/08/18/another-iran-deal-looking-back-and-looking-ahead/ 

David Pollock, “July/August 2022 UAE Survey Shows U.S. Leads Iran, but Lags Russia and China,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 30, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/julyaugust-2022-uae-survey-shows-us-leads-iran-lags-russia-and-china

David Pollock, “New Saudi Poll Shows Biden’s Visit Barely Budged Skepticism,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 30, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/new-saudi-poll-shows-bidens-visit-barely-budged-skepticism

Uzi Rabi, “Israel and the Arab Middle East—A New Geopolitical Architecture,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, June 2022, https://jstribune.com/rabi-israel-and-the-arab-middle-east/ 

Paul Rivlin, “The Ukraine War and the Middle East: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer,” The Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University, July 20, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/ukraine-war-and-middle-east-rich-get-richer-and-poor-get-poorer 

Attila Somfalvi, “Israel’s November Elections: What’s It All About,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, August 2022, https://jstribune.com/somfalvi-israels-november-elections/

Michael Tanchum, “The India-Middle East Food Corridor: How the UAE, Israel and India are forging a new inter-regional supply chain,” Middle East Institute, July 27, 2022,  https://www.mei.edu/publications/india-middle-east-food-corridor-how-uae-israel-and-india-are-forging-new-inter

Neil Zilber, “What if Netanyahu Wins?” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 24, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/what-if-netanyahu-wins

Ido Zelkovitz, “Game of Thrones: The Struggle between Fatah and Hamas for Political Hegemony in the Palestinian Authority, 2011-2022,” INSS, July 2022, https://strategicassessment.inss.org.il/en/articles/game-of-thrones-the-struggle-between-fatah-and-hamas-for-political-hegemony-in-the-palestinian-authority-2011-2022/ 


#113 Contemporary Readings July 2022

August 1, 2022

Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and the Center for Israel Education, kenstein@israeled.org 

Vic Alhadeff, “25 years after Maccabiah Bridge Collapse: ‘It has left a gaping hole’,” Plus61j Media, July 12, 2022, https://plus61j.net.au/featured/25-years-after-maccabiah-bridge-collapse-it-has-left-a-gaping-hole/ 

Ron Ben Yishai, “Biden’s strategic goals in his Mideast tour are in the Gulf,” Y-Net News, July 9, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h1rqassj5 

BICOM Staff, Israeli-Palestinian coordination ahead of Biden visit, July 10, 2022, Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, https://www.bicom.org.uk/news/israeli-palestinian-coordination-ahead-of-biden-visit/

Joe Biden, “Why I’m going to Saudi Arabia,” Washington Post, July 9, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/09/joe-biden-saudi-arabia-israel-visit/

Itamar Eichner, “Jewish Agency names Major General (Res.) Doron Almog as new chairman,” Y-Net, July 16, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjqea2dfq 

Tamir Hayman and Yoel Guzansky,” The Arab World amidst Great Power Competition,” INSS, June 13, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/arab-states/ 

Tamir Heyman and Eldad Shavit, “President Biden’s Visit to the Middle East: Recommendations for Israel,” INSS, July 3, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/biden-visit-to-the-me/ 

Frederic Hof, “I almost negotiated Israel-Syria peace. Here’s how it happened,” Atlantic Council, May 26, 2022. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/i-almost-negotiated-israel-syria-peace-heres-how-it-happened/

Yaacov Katz, “Lapid has a chance to be what Israel needs in his turn as PM,” The Jerusalem Post, June 30, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-710930 

Jon Hoffman, “The Middle East and the Manipulation of Great Power Competition,” The National Interest, May 9, 2022, https://nationalinterest.org/feature/middle-east-and-manipulation-great-power-competition-202264 

James Jeffrey and Dennis Ross, “The True Promise of Joe Biden’s Middle East Trip,” The National Interest, July 27, 2022, https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/true-promise-joe-biden%E2%80%99s-middle-east-trip-203856?page=0%2C1

Tzvi Joffre, “IDF releases court documents from Kafr Kassem massacre,” Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-713447 

Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen and Hesham Youssef, “The Negev Summit Furthers Arab-Israeli Normalization,”  United States Institute of Peace, March 31, 2022, https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/03/negev-summit-furthers-arab-israeli-normalization 

Yair Lapid, “I am a Zionist,” Y-Net News, January 30, 2009, https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3664422,00.html 

Yair Lapid, Inaugural speech upon taking office, July 2, 2022, Israel Prime Minister’s Office, https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/event_statement020722 

David Makovsky and Dennis Ross, “The Israeli Government Falls: New Election and Implications for U.S-Israel Relations, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 27, 2022, (webcast, 1:12) https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israeli-government-falls-new-election-and-implications-us-israel-relations 

Irwin J. Mansdorf, “Jewish Americans and Antisemitism: How their Views Compare with the Rest of America,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, July 24, 2022, https://jcpa.org/article/jewish-americans-and-antisemitism-how-their-views-compare-with-the-rest-of-america/ 

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, “The Liberation of the Arabs From the Global Left,” Tablet, July 11, 2022, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/liberation-arabs-global-left 

MEMRI Danielle Nagler, “After a century, mystery owners of coveted Petah Tikva plot identified,” Times of Israel, July 29, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-a-century-mystery-owners-of-coveted-petah-tikvah-plot-identified 

Staff, “Saudi Press Ahead Of Biden Visit And Summit With Regional Leaders: We Expect Satisfactory Answers Regarding Iran; Should U.S. Disappoint, We Have Alternative Allies, MEMRI, June 28, 2022, https://www.memri.org/reports/saudi-press-ahead-biden-visit-and-summit-regional-leaders-we-expect-satisfactory-answers 

Zohar Palti, “Israel Hoping for Shift in US Iran Policy from Diplomacy to Deterrence, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 30, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/
policy-analysis/israel-hoping-shift-us-iran-policy-diplomacy-deterrence
 

Michael Robbins, Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa, Arab attitudes toward its strengths/shortcomings across the region, deep analyses, Arab Barometer, July 2022, https://www.arabbarometer.org/wp-content/uploads/ABVII_Governance_Report-EN-1.pdf 

Paul Salem, and others, “Monday Briefing: Biden’s Realist Roadshow,” Middle East Institute, July 18, 2022, https://www.mei.edu/blog/monday-briefing-bidens-realist-roadshow 

Daniel Shapiro, “The Israeli government collapse was a curveball for Biden’s upcoming visit. But it shows the depth of the US-Israel relationship,” Atlantic Council, 2022, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/the-israeli-government-collapse-was-a-curveball-for-bidens-upcoming-visit-but-it-shows-the-depth-of-the-us-israel-relationship/ 

Khalil Shikaki, “Can A Newly Elected Parliament Repair the Damage Done to the Palestinian Political System in its Absence,” Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research, January 2021,  http://pcpsr.org/en/node/831 

Yedidia Stern, “Israel must maintain, preserve future of diaspora Jews,” Y-Net News, July 16, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rj11d5rqj9 

Michael Tanchum, “The India-Middle East Food Corridor: How the UAE, Israel and India are forging a new inter-regional supply chain,“ Middle East Institute, July 27, 2022, https://www.mei.edu/publications/india-middle-east-food-corridor-how-uae-israel-and-india-are-forging-new-inter 

Rich Tenorio, “Hollywood and Israel, a love story: How the Jewish state met the silver screen,” Times of Israel, July 25, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/hollywood-and-israel-a-love-story-how-the-jewish-state-met-the-silver-screen 

The Syrian Observer Staff, “Syrian Islamic Council: Mufti’s Meeting with Haniyeh to Discourage Hamas from Normalizing with Regime,” The Syrian Observer, July 6, 2022, https://syrianobserver.com/news/77268/syrian-islamic-council-muftis-meeting-with-haniyeh-to-discourage-hamas-from-normalizing-with-regime.html 

TOI Staff, “Biden in Israel: A blessing to be where Jewish People’s roots date to biblical times,” [Biden, Lapid and Herzog’s full airport speeches], Times of Israel, July 13, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/biden-in-israel-a-blessing-to-be-where-jewish-peoples-roots-date-to-biblical-times/ 

TOI Staff, “Saudi cleric known for Auschwitz visit, interfaith dialogue gives main hajj sermon,” Times of Israel, July 10, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-cleric-known-for-auschwitz-visit-interfaith-dialogue-gives-main-hajj-sermon/ 

Gil Troy, “A New Way to Look at Israel and the Arabs,” Commentary, July/August 2022,  https://www.commentary.org/articles/gil-troy/israel-arab-conflicts-diplomacy/


#112 Contemporary Readings June 2022

July 1, 2022

July 1, 2022

Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and the Center for Israel Education, kenstein@israeled.org 

Ahmed Aleiba, “No Arab NATO,” Al-Ahram Weekly, June 28, 2022, https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1201/470815/AlAhram-Weekly/Egypt/No-%E2%80%98Arab-NATO%E2%80%99-.aspx 

Dalia al-Qadi, “The Need for an Arab NATO is growing ever more pressing,” Arab News, April 5, 2022, https://www.arabnews.com/node/2057496 

Moran Azoulai, “What pushed Bennett to dissolve Knesset – and what happens next?” Y-Net News, June 20, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sye1sertc 

Peter Baker/Ben Hubbard, “Biden to Visit Saudis in Bid to Repair Ties,” New York Times, June 3, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/us/politics/biden-saudi-arabia.html 

Joseph Berger. “A.B. Yehoshua, Politically Engaged Israeli Writer, Dies at 85,” New York Times, June 14, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/books/ab-yehoshua-dead.html 

Aaron Boxerman, “As elections loom, Arabs take stock of Ra’am’s year-long experiment in government,” Times of Israel, June 24, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-elections-loom-arabs-take-stock-of-raams-year-long-experiment-in-government/ 

Aaron Boxerman and TOI Staff, “Top Abbas adviser al-Sheikh to lead PLO’s executive committee,” Times of Israel, May 26, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-abbas-adviser-al-sheikh-to-lead-plos-executive-committee-report/ 

Jotam Confino, “Israel’s former UN ambassador tells of the hostility he faced every day at the global organisation’s HQ,” The Jewish Chronicle, June 1, 2022, https://www.thejc.com/news/world/israels-former-un-ambassador-tells-of-the-hostility-he-faced-every-day-at-the-global-organisations-hq-59e1fbjXJj5O200OixmkHs 

Steven Cook, “The BDS movement has already lost,” Foreign Policy, May 18, 2022, https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/19/bds-movement-boycott-israel-palestine-harvard-crimson/ 

Abraham Cooper and Johnnie Moore, “Silence will doom Iranians to become a generation facing ongoing tyranny,” AlArabiya News, May 31, 2022, https://english.alarabiya.net/views/2022/05/31/Silence-will-doom-Iranians-to-become-a-generation-facing-ongoing-tyranny 

Noga Emanuel, “What is your nation, if I may ask?’: Antisemitism and Zionism in James Joyce’s Ulysses,” Fathom, June 2022, https://fathomjournal.org/what-is-your-nation-if-i-may-ask-antisemitism-and-zionism-in-james-joyces-ulysses/ 

Jihad Harb, “With Recent Shifts in the Structure of the Palestinian Political System, What Choices Remain for a Safe Succession Process?” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, June 2022, https://pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Brief%201_2022%20succession_Harb%20ENGLISH.pdf

Prof. Tamar Hermann, Dr. Or Anabi, Yaron Kaplan, Inna Orly Sapozhnikova), “Jews and Arabs a Conditional Partnership,” Israel Democracy Institute, 12 pages, June 2022 https://en.idi.org.il/publications/39009 

Frederic Hof, “I almost negotiated Israel-Syria peace. Here’s how it happened,” Atlantic Council, May 26, 2022. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/i-almost-negotiated-israel-syria-peace-heres-how-it-happened/ 

Yossi Klein Halevi, “Israel democracy faces its most critical test I the upcoming elections,” The Globe and Mail, June 21, 2022, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-israeli-democracy-faces-its-most-critical-test-in-the-upcoming  

Yossi Klein Halevi, “The soon-to-end coalition that nurtured two visions of Israel,” Times of Israel, June 12, 2022, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-soon-to-end-coalition-that-nurtured-two-visions-of-israel 

Israel Democracy Institute staff, “Israel’s Worst Political Crisis Is Not Over,” Israel Democracy Institute, June 20, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/39157 

Carrie Keller-Lynn and TOI Staff, “Lapid at PM handover ceremony with Bennett: ‘The job is bigger than all of us’, Times of Israel, June 30, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/lapid-at-pm-handover-ceremony-with-bennett-the-job-is-bigger-than-all-of-us/ 

Ofer Kenig, “Five (Elections) in Less Than Four (Years),” Israel Democracy Institute, June 20, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/39154 

Doron Kooperstein, “U.S. medics who leave everything behind to come to Israel midlife.” Y-Net, June 17, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/rjvvzzblc 

Joseph Krauss and Josef Federman, “Rumored Abbas successor claims ‘no partner,’ while working closely with Israelis,” Times of Israel, June 14, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/rumored-abbas-successor-claims-no-partner-while-working-closely-with-israelis 

David Makovsky, “Bennett on the Brink: Israel’s Precarious Coalition One Year On,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 13, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/bennett-brink-israels-precarious-coalition-one-year 

David Makovsky/Dennis Ross, “The Israeli Government Falls: New Election and Implications,” June 22, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israeli-government-falls-new-election-and-implications-us-israel-relations 

David Makovsky/Dennis Ross, “The Israeli Government Falls: New Election and Implications for U.S-Israel Relations, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 27, 2022, (webcast, 1:12) https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israeli-government-falls-new-election-and-implications-us-israel-relations

The Media Line and Y-Net staff, “Palestinians face uncertainty over Abbas’ successor as leader’s health declines,” Y-Net, June 13, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/r1tuswnkc 

MEMRI staff, “Saudi Analyst In Article On Al-Arabiya Website: Solution To Palestine Problem Is Naturalizing Palestinians In Jordanian Kingdom That Includes Gaza, West Bank; It’s Time For The Palestinians To Accept Reality, Focus On Living Their Lives,” MEMRI, June 21, 2022,   https://www.memri.org/reports/saudi-analyst-article-al-arabiya-website-solution-palestine-problem-naturalizing 

Yitzhak Mualem, “Quiet Diplomacy: The Exodus of Egyptian Jews between the Six-Day War and the War of Attrition,” Jewish Political Studies Review, January 13, 2020, https://jcpa.org/article/quiet-diplomacy-the-exodus-of-egyptian-jews-between-the-six-day-war-and-the-war-of-attrition/ 

David Pollock, “Shifting East Mediterranean Tides: From Conflict to Club Med?,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/shifting-east-mediterranean-tides-conflict-club-med 

Eunice G. Pollack, “Black Antisemitism in America: Past and Present,” INSS, June 1, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/black-antisemitism/ 

Shmuel Rosner, Camil Fuchs and Noah Slepkov, “Should Moral Considerations be Brought to Bear in Foreign and Security Policy? Attitudes of Israeli Jews,” The Jewish People Policy Institute, June 6, 2022, https://jppi.org.il/en/article/morals-interests-survey/#.YrxDAnbMIdV 

Dennis Ross, “The Abraham Accords and the Changing Shape of the Middle East,” Caravan, The Hoover Institution,  June 21, 2022, https://www.hoover.org/research/abraham-accords-and-changing-shape-middle-east 

Jalal Selmi, “Rebuilding Israeli-Turkish Relations: A Marriage of Convenience,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 26, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/rebuilding-israeli-turkish-relations-marriage-convenience 

Khalil Shikaki, “Can A Newly Elected (Palestinian) Parliament Repair the Damage Done to the Palestinian Political System in its Absence,”  Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, January 2021,  http://pcpsr.org/en/node/831  (This is a superb history of the institutional inter-relationships, competitions, and weaknesses of the PA, the PLO, the PLO Central Committee, Fatah, Hamas, and the Palestinian presidency.)

Anita Shapira, “Tel Aviv on the Sands,” (origins and meaning of Tel Aviv’s building in 1909), der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien eV, 2009, pp. 11-21, https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/opus4-ubp/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/3489/file/pardes15_s11_21.pdf 

Assaf Shapira/Chen Friedberg, “Dissolving the Knesset: A Historical Survey,” Israel Democracy Institute, May 18, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38887 

Ari Shavit, “The Tragedy of Naftali Bennett,” Y-Net News, June 18, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryoesuny9 

Leon Wieseltier, “Language, Identity, and the Scandal of American Jewry,” Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 2011, pp. 14 -22, https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/leon/Leon%20Wieseltier%20Language%20Identity%20Scandal%20of%20American%20Jewry.pdf 


#111 Contemporary Readings May 2022

June 9, 2022

Updated June 1, 2022

Assembled by Ken Stein, Michele Freesman-Levenson, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and the Center for Israel Education, kenstein@israeled.org

Ahram Online Staff, “UAE to earmark $10 bln for investments in Egypt, Jordan,” Ahram Online, May 29, 2022, https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/3/12/467021/Business/Economy/UAE-to-earmark–bln-for-investments-in-Egypt,-Jord.aspx 

AP. “Israel, UAE sign free trade deal, first with an Arab country,” Ahram Online, May 31, 2022, https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/3/12/467144/Business/Economy/Israel,-UAE-sign-free-trade-deal,-first-with-an-Ar.aspx 

Anat Thon Ashkenazy, “The Democratic Ethos and the Rules of the Political Game,” Israel Democracy Institute, May 8, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38827 

Alan Baker, “Jordan and the Temple Mount,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 9, 2022, https://jcpa.org/article/jordan-and-the-temple-mount/  

Ofra Bengio, “Has Erdogan turned Turkey around?” Jerusalem Post, May 8, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-706163 

BICOM Staff, “Jerusalem Day passes relatively quiet,” BICOM, May 30, 2022, https://www.bicom.org.uk/news/jerusalem-day-passes-relatively-quiet/ 

Carl Bindt Javier Solana, “All eyes are on Ukraine, but another crisis is brewing in Iran,” Washington Post, May 17, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/17/carl-bildt-javier-solana-revive-iran-nuclear-deal/ 

Sagi Cohen, “The War Inside Israel to Rule the Next Cyber Frontier,” Haaretz, May 22, 2022, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/2022-05-22/ty-article/.premium/the-war-inside-israel-to-rule-the-next-cyber-frontier/00000180-f6bf-d18b-a787-f7ff5d7b0000 

Abraham Cooper and Johnnie Moore, “Silence will doom Iranians to become a generation facing ongoing tyranny,” AlArabiya News, May 31, 2022, https://english.alarabiya.net/views/2022/05/31/Silence-will-doom-Iranians-to-become-a-generation-facing-ongoing-tyranny

Steven R. David, “Israel, and China: Making a Difficult Threesome Work,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, May 18, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/david-biden-israel-and-china/ 

Hagai Etkes and Wifag Adnan, “Illegal Workers in Israel: Did Israeli Policy during the Pandemic Boost their Employment?” INSS, May 22, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/illegal-workers/ 

Chen Friedberg and Assaf Shapira, “Dissolving the Knesset: A Historical Survey,” Israel Democracy Institute, May 18, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38887 

Amir Fuchs, “Legislating the Right to Equality is a Must,” Israel Democracy Institute, May 18, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38888 

Clement Gibon, “Lebanon’s election sees political vote buying and intimidation,” Al-Arabiya News, May 26, 2022, https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2022/05/26/Lebanon-s-election-sees-political-vote-buying-and-intimidation 

Yoel Guzansky and Gallia Lindenstrauss, “The Gulf Countries and Turkey: (Re-)Drawing the Map of Alliances in the Middle East,” INSS, May 2, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/turkey-gulf-states/ 

Yoel Guzansky and Elad Shavit, “US Relations with Arab Gulf States: A Passing Crisis?” INSS, May 30, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/usa-gulf/ 

Nasreen Haddad Haj Yahya and Oded Ron, “A Year Later: Arab-Jewish Relations in Mixed Cities,” Israel Democracy Institute, May 24, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38956 

Lahav Harkov, “Israel negotiating gas exports to Europe,” Jerusalem Post, May 22, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/energy-and-infrastructure/article-707371 

Rany Hasan, “First year of the coalition: The situation of the Arab parties and the balance of power between them,” Moshe Dayan Center: Bayan, May 11, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/first-year-coalition-situation-arab-parties-and-balance-power-between-them 

Tamar Hermann and Or Anabi, “50% Jewish Israelis support Jewish Prayer on the Temple Mount,” Israel Democracy Institute, May 4, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38824 

Gil Hoffman, “Lapid working on plan to stop Ben & Jerry’s Israel boycott,” Jerusalem Post, May 18, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-706950 

Hiba Husseini, “An Israeli-Palestinian Confederation Is the Best Path to Peace,” Foreign Policy, May 23, 2022, https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/23/israeli-palestinian-confederation-peace/ 

John Jeffay, “Israeli robots to be care companions for 800 New York seniors,” Israel21C, May 29, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-robots-to-be-care-companions-for-800-new-york-seniors/ 

Jerusalem Post Staff, “Israeli startup Watergen, SMV Jaipuria Group partner to bring India ‘air-to-water’ technology,” Jerusalem Post, May 26, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/energy-and-infrastructure/article-707711 

Jerusalem Post Staff, “President Herzog speaks with PA head Abbas, Middle East leaders,” Jerusalem Post, May 1, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-705625 

Carrie Keller-Lynn, “New elections creep closer with resignation, but coalition of 59 not buried yet,” Times of Israel, May 19, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-elections-creep-closer-with-resignation-but-coalition-of-59-not-buried-yet/ 

Isabel Kershner, “Israel’s Political Crisis Is Resolved, but Governing Remains a Strain,” New York Times, May 22, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/world/middleeast/israel-government-crisis.html?searchResultPosition=5 

Patrick Kingsley, “Israeli Government Loses Parliament Majority, Raising Prospect of Election,” New York Times, May 19, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/world/middleeast/israel-opposition-parliament-majority.html?searchResultPosition=6 

Patrick Kingsley, “Old Palestinian Wound Resurfaces at Israeli Resort,” New York Times, May 11, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/world/israeli-palestinian-mass-grave-tantura.html?searchResultPosition=12 

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Tens of thousands expected at Tel Aviv Pride Month events,” Israel21C, May 19, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/tens-of-thousands-expected-at-tel-aviv-pride-month-events/ 

Zvika Klein, “’Crimson editors aligned to movement most Jews see as antisemitic,’ Israeli students at Harvard say,” Jerusalem Post, May 22, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-707363 

Joshua Krasna, “A Tale of Two Normalizations: Israeli Normalization with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Part I,” Moshe Dayan Center: Tel Aviv Notes, May 17, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/tale-two-normalizations-israeli-normalization-united-arab-emirates-uae-part-i 

Eran Lerman, “The Roots of Israel’s Diplomatic Revolution,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, May 4, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/lerman-the-roots-of-israels-diplomatic-revolution/ 

Nermeen Al-Mufti, “No normalisation with Israel in Iraq,” Ahram Online, May 31, 2022, https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1203/467179/AlAhram-Weekly/World/No-normalisation-with-Israel-in-Iraq.aspx 

Maha Natoor, “Life, Death, and Beyond: The Belief in Reincarnation and the Phenomenon of Notq in the Druze Community,” Moshe Dayan Center, May 24, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/life-death-and-beyond-belief-reincarnation-and-phenomenon-notq-druze-community 

Suzie Navot, “Equality Now!” Israel Democracy Institute, May 19, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38890 

Alon Pinkas, “Biden’s Dilemma: Is Saudi Arabia Really a U.S. Ally?” Haaretz, May 31, 2022, https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2022-05-31/ty-article/.highlight/bidens-dilemma-is-saudi-arabia-really-a-u-s-ally/00000181-1a5a-dd8a-a9f9-bffb91e40000 

Sever Plocker, “The danger of Israel becoming a bi-national state,” YNet, May 4, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjglt11tbc 

David Pollack, “Shifting East Mediterranean Tides: From Conflict to Club Med?” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/shifting-east-mediterranean-tides-conflict-club-med 

Daniel Rakov, “Israel Must Adjust its Ukraine Policy,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, May 10, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/israel-must-adjust-its-ukraine-policy/ 

Abdulrahman al-Rashed, “Did Biden change his mind?” Al-Arabiya News, May 29, 2022, https://english.alarabiya.net/views/2022/05/29/Did-Biden-change-his-mind- 

Barak Ravid, “Key Israeli official to travel to U.S. for talks on Biden visit, Iran and Saudi Arabia,” Axios, May 26, 2022, https://www.axios.com/2022/05/26/israel-washington-saudi-arabia-iran-hulata-white-house 

Reuters, “Iran’s energy export revenue up 60 pct in March-May vs year ago: Oil ministry media,” Al- Arabiya News, May 29, 2022, https://english.alarabiya.net/business/energy/2022/05/29/Iran-s-energy-export-revenue-up-60-pct-in-March-May-vs-year-ago-Oil-ministry-media 

Reuters, “Israel ramping up gas output, looks to help supply Europe,” YNet, May 16, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h1n5jyldc?utm_source=Taboola_internal&utm_medium=organic 

Grant Rumley, “The Impact of Russia’s Ukraine Invasion in the Middle East and North Africa,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 18, 2022,  https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/impact-russias-ukraine-invasion-middle-east-and-north-africa 

Tal Schneider and David Horovitz, “Herzog to ToI on Israel at 74: Celebrate, unify, seize moment for regional dialogue,” Times of Israel, May 5, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/herzog-to-toi-on-israel-at-74-celebrate-unify-seize-moment-for-regional-dialogue/ 

Jalal Selmi, “Rebuilding Israeli-Turkish Relations: A Marriage of Convenience,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 26, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/rebuilding-israeli-turkish-relations-marriage-convenience 

Carol Silber, “Polling Indicates Widespread Frustration in Lebanon and Sectarian Disagreement on Global Powers,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 19, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/polling-indicates-widespread-frustration-lebanon-and-sectarian-disagreement-global 

Sam Sokol, “A Violent Schism Just Exploded in Israel’s Most Powerful Hasidic Sect,” Haaretz, May 23, 2022, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-05-23/ty-article/.highlight/a-violet-schism-just-exploded-in-israels-most-powerful-hasidic-sect/00000180-f6cc-d18b-a787-f7edc0320000 

Shoshana Solomon, “Israel at 74: Economy shows resilience, though clouds loom large on the horizon,” Times of Israel, May 4, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-at-74-economy-shows-resilience-though-clouds-loom-large-on-the-horizon/ 

TOI Staff, “Khaled Kabub sworn in as Israeli Supreme Court’s first Muslim justice,” Times of Israel, May 9, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/khaled-kabub-sworn-in-as-supreme-courts-first-muslim-justice/ 

Khaled Abu Toameh, “Hamas wins Birzeit University student council elections,” Jerusalem Post, May 19, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-707081 

Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA: Sovereignty over Jerusalem, holy sites belongs to ‘State of Palestine’,” Jerusalem Post, May 8, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-706138 

Biancamaria Vallortigara, “Mercenary Fighters in Libya and Ukraine: How Social Media Are Exposing the Russian Wagner Group,” Moshe Dayan Center: Beehive, May 31, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/mercenary-fighters-libya-and-ukraine-how-social-media-are-exposing-russian-wagner-group 

Alexander Ward and Nahal Toosi, “Biden made final decision to keep Iran’s IRGC on terrorist list,” Politico, May 24, 2022, https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/24/biden-final-decision-iran-revolutionary-guard-terrorist-00034789 

Jim Zanotti, “Israel: Background and U.S. Relations in Brief,” Congressional Research Service, April 15, 2022, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44245/107 

Raz Zimmt, “Demonstrations in Iran in Protest of the Sharp Rise in Prices of Basic Goods,” INSS, May 19, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/iran-demonstrations-2022/ 

Eyal Zisser, “Expect more of the same in Lebanon,” Moshe Dayan Center, May 17, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/expect-more-same-lebanon 


#110 Contemporary Readings April 2022

May 5, 2022

Assembled by Ken Stein, Michele Freesman-Levenson, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and the Center for Israel Education, kenstein@israeled.org 

Ramy Aziz, “Egypt, Israel, and Hamas: Opportunities for Progress in Gaza,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 19, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/egypt-israel-and-hamas-opportunities-progress-gaza 

Nahum Barnea, “Israel must not let its regional allies’ undemocratic practices stick to it,” YNet, April 18, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1kmvicvc 

Lazar Berman, “‘A historic milestone’: Israel and UAE sign free trade agreement,” Times of Israel, April 1, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-significant-and-historic-milestone-israel-and-uae-sign-free-trade-agreement/ 

Lazar Berman, “Turkey targets Israel with charm offensive as it angles to regain regional status,” Times of Israel, April 13, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkey-targets-israel-with-charm-offensive-as-it-angles-to-regain-regional-status/ 

BICOM Staff, “Calm restored on Temple Mount following more rioting,” BICOM, April 29, 2022, https://www.bicom.org.uk/news/calm-restored-on-temple-mount-following-more-rioting/ 

BICOM Staff, “Rocket fire from Lebanon into Israel,” BICOM, April 25, 2022, https://www.bicom.org.uk/news/rocket-fire-from-lebanon-into-israel/ 

Nir Boms, “Warm Peace and the Challege of People to People Relations after the Abraham Accords,” Moshe Dayan Center, April 15, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/warm-peace-and-challenge-people-people-relations-after-abraham-accords 

Brian Blum, “Apple Watch now monitors your health with Israeli pee-analysis tech,” Israel21C, April 19, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/olive-diagnostics-brings-pee-tech-to-the-apple-watch/?utm_source=The+Weekly&utm_campaign=weekly-2022-04-20&utm_medium=email 

Soner Cagaptay and Rich Outzen, “Turkey’s Lethal Weapon,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 27, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/turkeys-lethal-weapon 

Gökhan Çınkara, “A U-Turn in Israeli-Turkish Relations: The Fall of Ikhwanism and the Rise of the Abraham Accords,” Moshe Dayan Center, April 12, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/u-turn-israeli-turkish-relations-fall-ikhwanism-and-rise-abraham-accords 

Itamar Eichner, “Putin demands ownership of Jerusalem landmark in angry letter to Bennett,” YNet, April 18, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1e61100qn9 

Giora Eiland, “Managing Palestinian Conflict Requires Israeli Discretion,” YNet, April 21, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjul00ra45 

Mona El-Naggar, “Baking Challah in Dubai: A Jewish Community Heads Out Into the Open,” New York Times, April 26, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/world/middleeast/dubai-jewish-community.html?searchResultPosition=13 

Gal Perl Finkel, “Nonetheless, We Need to Maneuver,” INSS, April 3, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/idf-maneuvers/ 

Karnit Flug, “The Israeli Economy: Basic Facts, Recent Developments, Strengths and Challenges,” Israel Democracy Institute, April 12, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38770 

Seth J. Frantzman, “Iran could be planning a ‘surprise’ for Israel in Jerusalem – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, April 4, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-703194 

Marta Furlan, “Russian Gamble with Syrian Fighters in Ukraine could have Repercussions for Syrian Regime, Israel,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, April 11, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/furlann-russian-gamble-with-syrian-fighters-in-ukraine/ 

Judah Ari Gross, “Diaspora minister: Ukraine war is showing Israelis that ties with Jews abroad,” Times of Israel, April 3, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/diaspora-minister-ukraine-war-is-showing-israelis-that-ties-with-jews-abroad-matter/ 

Judah Ari Gross, “Once it was F-15s on Shabbat; now, hametz: The religious issues that end governments,” Times of Israel, April 13, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/once-it-was-f-15s-on-shabbat-now-hametz-the-religious-issues-that-end-governments/ 

Yoel Guzansky and Inbal Nissim-Louvton, “Seven Years Later: Is the War in Yemen Nearly Over?” INSS, April 14, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/yemen-war/ 

Joseph Haboush, “Biden, King Abdullah discuss violence in Jerusalem,” Al-Arabiya, April 25, 2022, https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2022/04/25/Biden-King-Abdullah-discuss-violence-in-Jerusalem 

Amani Hamad, “Saudi Arabia, Kuwait call on Iran to hold talks on energy-rich offshore area,” Al-Arabiya, April 13, 2022, https://english.alarabiya.net/business/energy/2022/04/13/Saudi-Arabia-Kuwait-call-on-Iran-to-hold-talks-on-energy-rich-offshore-area 

Amr Hamzawy, “The Negev Summit’s Participants Had Wildly Different Goals,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, April 6, 2022, https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/04/06/negev-summit-s-participants-had-wildly-different-goals-pub-86826 

Amos Harel, “The Common Thread Between Recent Terror Attacks in Israel,” Haaretz, April 8, 2022, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-the-common-thread-between-recent-terror-attacks-in-israel1.10728149?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-most-read&utm_content=fcf4a80747 

Tamar Hermann and Or Anabi, “Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022 – The Israeli Voice Index,” Israel Democracy Institute, April 27, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38802 

Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, “Lessons from Nazi Holocaust that can help guide a world in turmoil,” Al-Arabiya, April 29, 2022, https://english.alarabiya.net/views/2022/04/29/Lessons-from-Nazi-Holocaust-that-can-help-guide-a-world-in-turmoil 

Jerusalem Post Staff, “PA slammed by EU Committee for producing new antisemitic textbooks,” Jerusalem Post, April 2, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/international/article-702997 

Eden Kaduri and Jony Essa, “11 Years of War in Syria: Situation Assessment,” INSS, April 24, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/syria-war-11-years/ 

Max Kaplan-Zantopp, “How Israel used innovation to beat its water crisis,” Israel21C, April 28, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/how-israel-used-innovation-to-beat-its-water-crisis/?utm_source=The+Weekly&utm_campaign=weekly-2022-05-03&utm_medium=email 

Jack Khoury, “A Month of Violence? Palestinians Challenge Israeli View of Ramadan,” Haaretz, April 3, 2022, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-a-month-of-violence-palestinians-challenge-israeli-view-of-ramadan-1.10716563 

Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner, “Israel’s Government in Crisis After Senior Lawmaker Quits Coalition,” New York Times, April 6, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/world/middleeast/idit-silman-israel-coalition.html?searchResultPosition=11 

Zvika Klein, “Diaspora Week: Tours showcase American Jewry in the streets of Jerusalem,” Jerusalem Post, April 3, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-703107 

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israel stands in silence in commemoration of the Holocaust,” Israel21C, April 28, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/israel-stands-in-silence-in-commemoration-of-the-holocaust/?utm_source=The+Weekly&utm_campaign=weekly-2022-05-03&utm_medium=email 

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israeli agricultural innovations will keep the world fed,” Israel21C, April 24, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-agricultural-innovations-will-keep-the-world-fed/?utm_source=The+Weekly&utm_campaign=weekly-2022-04-27&utm_medium=email 

Ariel Koch, “Campaigning For Aafia: From ‘Twitter Storms” to Terrorism,” Beehive: Moshe Dayan Center, April 26, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/campaigning-aafia-twitter-storms-terrorism 

Martin Kramer, “Twin Towers and Ivory Towers, 20 Years Later,” Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2022, https://www.meforum.org/63036/twin-towers-and-ivory-towers-20-years-later 

Anat Kurz, “The Negev Summit – What Next?,” INSS, April 3, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/negev-summit/ 

Eran Lerman, “US -Israeli Relations in the Shadow of Nuclear Talks in Vienna: A return to Ben-Gurion’s WW2 Dual Strategy?” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, April 5, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/lerman-us-israeli-relations-in-the-shadow-of-nuclear-talks/ 

Asaf Malchi, “Working Together: Secular and Ultra-Orthodox Israelis in Mixed Workplaces,” Israel Democracy Institute, April 4, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38653 

Jonah Mandel, “As EU eyes stopping Russian gas imports, Israel sees an opening,” Yahoo! News, April 12, 2022, https://news.yahoo.com/eu-eyes-stopping-russian-gas-083340120.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMzAeTiNN0YWVZHaCWfbXAGQ86Q55wibuQPU2ep7o65uoXG1UwvLLqSX2Ji5fis4Q6SgfV9gUqxq53FKwSyH8ehnwg6EAO9yA9qDU4AXrh1LVbEze_LCLg-EPqs9uPeHJM4VrCgSI6URkRl33rZfRiJlw78wh4X8GdEF0qm50zim 

Joshua Marks, “Can Israel solve Europe’s gas problem? We asked the experts,” Israel21C, April 10, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/can-israel-export-gas-to-europe-we-asked-the-experts/?utm_source=The+Weekly&utm_campaign=weekly-2022-04-13&utm_medium=email 

David Makovsky, “Beyond the Blocs: Jewish Settlement East of Israel’s Security Barrier and How to Avert the Slide to a One-State Outcome,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 26, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/beyond-blocs-jewish-settlement-east-israels-security-barrier-and-how-avert-slide 

David Makovsky, “Political Tempest in Israel: Can Bennett Right the Ship?” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 11, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/political-tempest-israel-can-bennett-right-ship 

Robert McKelvey, “Lebanon oil spill cleanup continues over one year after catastrophe,” Al-Arabiya, April 29, 2022, https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2022/04/29/Lebanon-oil-spill-cleanup-continues-over-one-year-after-catastrophe- 

Aaron David Miller, “Opinion: Why the world fails on the ‘Never again’ pledge,” CNN, April 19, 2022, https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/opinions/ukraine-never-again-genocide-miller/index.html 

Omri Nahmias, “IRGC is terror org., I do not support delisting – Joint Chiefs of Staff chair,” Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-703548 

Gabriel Noronha, “How Congress Can Nix Biden’s Iran Deal,” Tablet, April 17, 2022, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-congress-can-nix-bidens-iran-deal 

Gaith al-Omari and David Pollock, “Managing New Israeli-Palestinian Tensions During Ramadan,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 1, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/managing-new-israeli-palestinian-tensions-during-ramadan 

Nadia Oweidat, “The Russian Propaganda in Arabic Hidden from the West,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 18, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/russian-propaganda-arabic-hidden-west 

Barak Ravid, “Israel and Jordan to meet after Ramadan to discuss Jerusalem tensions,” Axios, April 27, 2022, https://www.axios.com/israel-jordan-meet-jerusalem-tensions-al-aqsa-ee97d5e3-afc7-4a77-a2f6-6ccc1a12f38d.html 

Aaron Reich, “Israel’s 2nd astronaut to launch Friday on mission to ISS,” Jerusalem Post, April 4, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/science/article-703212 

Paul Rivlin, “Russia invades Ukraine: The economic fall-out and consequences for energy markets,” Moshe Dayan Center, April 4, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/russia-invades-ukraine-economic-fall-out-and-consequences-energy-markets 

David Rosenberg, “The Year Israel Defied All the Economists’ Expectations,” Haaretz, April 14, 2022, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-biggest-change-in-israel-s-economy-since-last-passover-1.10740474 

David Rosenthal, “Sholem Aleichem: The Jewish Mark Twain,” YNet, April 16, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjnc57lnc 

Dennis Ross, “West’s Weakness Led Putin into Ukraine—and Other Enemies Are Looking for Similar Signs,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 8, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/wests-weakness-led-putin-ukraine-and-other-enemies-are-looking-similar-signs 

Abdel-Moneim Said, “Arab peace initiative revisited,” Ahram Online, April 19, 2022, https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1204/464937/AlAhram-Weekly/Opinion/Arab-peace-initiative-revisited.aspx 

Robert Satloff, “Why Arab Allies Don’t Trust the U.S. on Ukraine,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 9, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/why-arab-allies-dont-trust-us-ukraine 

Yaakov Schwartz, “Muslim influencers visit Auschwitz, seek to bring truth of Holocaust to Arab world,” Times of Israel, April 28, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/muslim-influencers-visit-auschwitz-seek-to-bring-truth-of-holocaust-to-arab-world/ 

Yoram Schweitzer, Ephraim Lavie, and Meir Elran, “Between ISIS and Arab Citizens of Israel,” INSS, April 14, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/isis-israel/ 

Gabi Siboni and Yuval Bazak, “The Campaign to Thwart Iran’s Strategy,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, April 13, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/siboni-bazak-the-campaign-to-thwart-irans-strategy/ 

Ken Stein, “Dayenu–From Exodus to Contemporary Israel,” Center for Israel Education, April 2022, https://israeled.org/dayenu-from-exodus-to-contemporary-israel/ 

Itay Stern, “Israel Heading to Eurovision Despite Security Snag,” Haaretz, April 28, 2022, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/.premium-israel-heading-to-eurovision-despite-security-snag-1.10769278 

Khaled Abu Toameh, “Palestinian-Israeli violence shows PA, Jordan powerless in Jerusalem – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, April 4, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-703213 


#109 Contemporary Readings March 2022

April 2, 2022

April 2, 2022

Assembled by Ken Stein, Michele Freesman-Levenson, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and the Center for Israel Education, kenstein@israeled.org

Ramy Aziz, “Cairo’s Opportunity for Policy Change on the War in Ukraine,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 10, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/cairos-opportunity-policy-change-war-ukraine 

Michael Barak, “The War on Public Consciousness: Social media as a tool of influence by supporters of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood,” Moshe Dayan Center, March 28, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/war-public-consciousness-social-media-tool-influence-supporters-egyptian-muslim-brotherhood 

Naama Barak, “Arab women in Jerusalem study Hebrew for a stronger future,” Israel21C, March 20, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/arab-women-in-jerusalem-study-hebrew-for-a-stronger-future/ 

Katherine Bauer, “Israel-UAE Economic Cooperation Has Deep Roots and Broad Dividends,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 8, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israel-uae-economic-cooperation-has-deep-roots-and-broad-dividends 

Ferid Belhaj, “Compounded stress: The impact of the war in Ukraine on the Middle East and North Africa,” Middle East Institute, March 7, 2022, https://www.mei.edu/publications/compounded-stress-impact-war-ukraine-middle-east-and-north-africa 

Ofra Bengio, “Turkey Finds Israel Useful Again,” Tablet, March 13, 2022, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/turkey-finds-israel-useful-again 

BICOM Staff, “Regional summit in Israel overshadowed by terror attack,” BICOM, March 28, 2022, https://www.bicom.org.uk/news/regional-summit-in-israel-overshadowed-by-terror-attack/  

Hussein Dakroub, “Ahead of elections Lebanese see no hope for political change,” Al-Arabiya,  March 30, 2022, https://english.alarabiya.net/editor-choice/2022/03/30/Ahead-of-elections-Lebanese-see-no-hope-for-political-change 

Udi Dekel, “Terrorist Attacks in Israel: A Time to Change the Rules of the Game,” INSS, March 31, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/social_media/terrorist-attacks-in-israel-a-time-to-change-the-rules-of-the-game/ 

Itamar Eichner, “Ball in Zelensky’s court when it comes to ending war, Israeli officials say,” YNet, March 8, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjwgwgrwc 

Marta Furlan, “Taliban Victory Serves as a Model for Palestinian Terror Groups,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, March 8, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/furlan-taliban-as-a-model-for-palestinian/ 

Daniel Gordis, “Interview with Knesset Member Alon Tal,” with appropriate nuance explains Israel’s responses to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine,” https://danielgordis.substack.com/p/mk-alon-tal-on-israel-and-ukraine?s=r

Roy Gutman, “No Going Back: Activists Reflect a Decade After the Arab Spring,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 7, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/no-going-back-activists-reflect-decade-after-arab-spring 

Yoel Guzansky, “The War in Ukraine and Strategic Hedging by Arab Countries,” INSS, March 21, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/arab-states-and-the-war-in-ukraine/ 

Great Britain, Palestine: Termination of the Mandate, May 15, 1948, (ten page summary of the Mandate) https://israeled.org/resources/documents/great-britain-palestine-termination-of-the-mandate/

Joseph Haboush, “Middle East one of most vulnerable regions due to Russia-Ukraine war: IMF official,” Al-Arabiya, March 28, 2022, https://english.alarabiya.net/business/economy/2022/03/28/Middle-East-one-of-most-vulnerable-regions-due-to-Russia-Ukraine-war-IMF-official 

Joseph Haboush, “US hostage envoy in Beirut to discuss missing Americans in Syria: Sources,” Al-Arabiya, March 31, 2022, https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2022/03/31/US-hostage-envoy-in-Beirut-to-discuss-missing-citizens-in-Syria-Sources 

Nasreen Haddad Haj-Yahya, Muhammed Khalaily, Arik Rudnitzky, Ben Fargeon, “Statistical Report on Arab Society in Israel: 2021,” Israel Democracy Institute, March 17, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38540 

Yoseph Haddad, “Yoseph Haddad’s Brilliant Defense Of Israel In The Irish Parliament,” VINnews, March 1, 2022, https://vinnews.com/2022/03/01/yoseph-haddads-brilliant-defense-of-israel-in-the-irish-parliament/ 

Sivan Hilaie, “Israel braces for a housing crisis amid Ukraine immigration wave,” YNet, March 15, 2022,  https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjm6vfpw9#autoplay 

Efraim Inbar, “Israel’s Ukraine policy: ‘Right side of history’ vs national interest,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security,  March 21, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/inbar-israels-ukraine-policy/ 

Martin Indyk and Itamar Rabinovich, “Learning from History: Henry Kissinger’s Statecraft,” INSS, March 30, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRY-wdDDy0w,

Amr Kandil, “Egypt has always strived to encourage Israelis, Palestinians to compromise and end conflict: FM Shoukry,” Ahram Online, March 28, 2022, https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1234/463629/Egypt/Foreign-Affairs/Egypt-has-always-strived-to-encourage-Israelis,-Pa.aspx 

Isabel Kershner and Safak Timur, “Israel’s President Visits Turkey in Sign of Thawing Relations,” New York Times, March 9, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/world/middleeast/israel-isaac-herzog-turkey-visit.html 

Isabel Kershner, “Ukraine War Ignites Israeli Debate Over Purpose of a Jewish State,” New York Times, March 23, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/world/middleeast/israel-ukraine-refugees-jewish.html?searchResultPosition=10 

Patrick Kingsley, “Israel summit shows ties with Arabs moving from ceremony to substance,” Union-Bulletin, March 26, 2022, https://www.union-bulletin.com/seattle_times/israel-summit-shows-ties-with-arabs-moving-from-ceremony-to-substance/article_1c62dcab-332f-5cc6-a5e9-280ef1cf191b.html

Kemal Kirişci and Dan Arbell, “President Herzog’s visit to Ankara: A first step in normalizing Turkey-Israel relations?” Brookings, March 7, 2022, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/03/07/president-herzogs-visit-to-ankara-a-first-step-in-normalizing-turkey-israel-relations/ 

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Golda Meir – the only woman in the room,” Israel21C, March 27, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/golda-meir-reconsidered-through-a-feminist-lens/ 

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Healing strangers in the midst of a war zone,” Israel21C, March 28, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/healing-strangers-in-the-middle-of-ukraines-war/ 

Joshua Krasna, “Politics, War and Eastern Mediterranean Gas,” Moshe Dayan Center, March 24, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/politics-war-and-eastern-mediterranean-gas 

Yossi Kupperwasser, “The United States Is Determined to Return to the Dangerous Iran Deal at Any Cost: The Implications for Israel,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 21, 2022, https://jcpa.org/article/the-united-states-is-determined-to-return-to-the-dangerous-iran-deal-at-any-cost-the-implications-for-israel/ 

Matthew Levitt, “Don’t Drop Iran’s Revolutionary Guards from FTO List,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 21, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/dont-drop-irans-revolutionary-guards-fto-list 

Yaniv Levyatan, “The First TikTok War,” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, March 2022, https://jstribune.com/levyatan-the-first-tiktok-war/ 

Alexander Loengarov, “Between Maritime Law and Politics in the East Mediterranean,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 24, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/between-maritime-law-and-politics-east-mediterranean 

David Makovsky, “A New Regional Role for Israel, as Washington Shows Signs of Stepping Back,” Times of Israel, March 28, 2022, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-new-role-in-the-middle-east-easing-the-arabs-way-in-washington/ 

Hamdi Malik, Michael Knights, Crispin Smith, “Exposing Kataib Hezbollah’s Royal Family? Insights from Recent Leaks,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 9, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/exposing-kataib-hezbollahs-royal-family-insights-recent-leaks 

Yotam Margalit and Itamar Yakir, “The Israeli Labor Market and COVID-19: What Really Happened?” Israel Democracy Institute, March 28, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38655 

Yoni Ben Menachem, “Mahmoud Abbas Seeks to Neutralize Firebrand Marwan Barghouti Sitting in Prison,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 20, 2022, https://jcpa.org/mahmoud-abbas-seeks-to-neutralize-firebrand-marwan-barghouti-sitting-in-prison/ 

Yoni Ben Menachem, “The Saudi Crown Prince’s Messages to Israel and Iran.” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 7, 2022, https://jcpa.org/the-saudi-crown-princes-messages-to-israel-and-iran/ 

Ruwayda Mustafah, “Addressing Violence Against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 28, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/addressing-violence-against-women-iraqi-kurdistan 

Ghaith al-Omari, “Making the Most of Jordan’s Peace Diplomacy,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 29, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/making-most-jordans-peace-diplomacy 

Aurora Ortega, “Hezbollah in Columbia Past and Present Modus Operandi and the News for Greater Security,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 28, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/hezbollah-colombia-past-and-present-modus-operandi-and-need-greater-scrutiny

Asaf Romirowsky and Alex Joffe, “MESA’s Israel boycott encapsulates everything wrong with academia – opinion,” The Jerusalem Post, March 26, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-702382

Avraham Sela, “Arab Historiography of the 1948 War: The Quest for Legitimacy,” Center for Israel Education, reprint from Truman Institute Reprints and Laurence J. Silberstein (ed.) New Perspectives on Israeli History, New York University Press, 1991, https://israeled.org/avraham-sela-arab-historiography-of-the-1948-war-the-quest-for-legitimacy/

Francisco Serrano, “War in Ukraine and drought at home: A perfect storm in the Maghreb,” Middle East Institute, March 21, 2022, https://www.mei.edu/publications/war-ukraine-and-drought-home-perfect-storm-maghreb  

Khalil Shikaki, “Press Release: Public Opinion Poll No (83),” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, March 22, 2022, https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/902 

Clément Therme, “The Russian-Iran Partnership in a Multipolar World,” French Institute of International Relations, March 2022, https://www.ifri.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/therme_russian_iran_partnership_2022.pdf 

Gil Troy, “Ukraine can happen in Israel too – opinion,” Jerusalem Post, March 22, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-702042#google_vignette 

Khaled Abu Toameh, “73% of Palestinians want Abbas to step down – poll,” Jerusalem Post, March 26, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-702367 

Khaled Abu Toameh, “Israeli, Palestinian women call to revive peace talks,” Jerusalem Post, March 26, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-702370 

Gil Troy, “Ukraine Can Happen in Israel Too,” Jerusalem Post, March 22, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-702042

Yohanan Tzoreff, “With Ramadan Approaching, the Fear of Escalation,” INSS, March 30, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/ramadan-2022/ 

Carl Yonker, “Hizballah, Lebanon, and Reconciliation with the Gulf: The Impasse,” Moshe Dayan Center, March 10, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/hizballah-lebanon-and-reconciliation-gulf-impasse 


#108 Contemporary Readings February 2022

March 2, 2022

Updated February 28, 2022

Assembled by Ken Stein, Michele Freesman-Levenson, and Ana Kilbourn Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and the Center for Israel Education, kenstein@israeled.org

AFP, “Israel’s economy minister visits Morocco to cement trade ties,” Ahram Online, February 20, 2022, https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/461440/World/Region/Israel;s-economy-minister-visits-Morocco-to-cement.aspx 

Mansour Abbas, David Makovsky, and Robert Satloff, “An Arab Leader in Israel: A Conversation with Mansour Abbas,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 10, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/arab-leader-israel-conversation-mansour-abbas 

Emily Alhadeff, “What Happened to Jewish (Israel) Studies” University of Washington, February 20, 2022, https://thecholent.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-jewish-studies?s=r

Taheilla Schwart Altshuler and Amir Cahane, “The NSO Affair – What is Allowed and What is Forbidden in Online Surveillance,” Israeli Democracy Institute, January 23, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38153

Daphna Aviram-Nitzan, Yarden Kedar, “Israelis Out of Work as a Result of COVID-19,” Israel Democracy Institute, February 28, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38301  

Prime Minister Bennett, “The State of Israel’s Foreign, Defense and Domestic Matters,” Center for Israel Education, February 7, 2022, https://israeled.org/resources/documents/remarks-by-israel-prime-minister-naftali-bennett-to-the-inss-15th-annual-international-conference/

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, “PM Bennett Addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,” Conference of President of Major American Jewish Organizations, Jerusalem, February 20, 2022, https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/pm-bennett-addresses-the-conference-of-presidents-of-major-american-jewish-organizations-20-feb-2022 

BICOM Staff, “Israel offers to mediate between Russia and Ukraine,” BICOM, February 28, 2022, https://www.bicom.org.uk/news/israel-offeres-to-mediate-between-russia-and-ukraine/ 

BICOM Staff, “Not supporting the Abraham Accord was a mistake, says Abbas,” BICOMI, February 14, 2022, https://www.bicom.org.uk/news/not-supporting-the-abraham-accord-was-a-mistake-says-abbas/ 

BICOM Staff, “Tension in the West Bank following counter-terrorism operation,” BICOM, February 11, 2022, https://www.bicom.org.uk/news/tension-in-the-west-bank-following-counter-terrorism-operation/ 

Diana Bletter, “Helping Israel’s minorities find jobs in high-tech,” Israel21C, February 15, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/helping-israels-minorities-find-jobs-in-high-tech/  

Anna Borshchevskaya, “How to Make Russia Pay in Ukraine: Study Syria,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 15, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-make-russia-pay-ukraine-study-syria  

Margaret Dene, Hannah Labow, Carol Silber, “Middle East Responses to the Ukraine Crisis,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 25, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/middle-east-responses-ukraine-crisis  

Renee Ghert-Zand, “3 Days in March: How the 2nd Intifada’s Bloodiest Hours Seeded Today’s Middle East,” The Times of Israel, February 23, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/3-days-in-march-how-the-2nd-intifadas-bloodiest-hours-seeded-todays-middle-east/ 

Judah Ari Gross, “PM meets Reform, Conservative leaders after 6-year hiatus under Netanyahu,” Times of Israel, February 28, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-meets-reform-conservative-leaders-after-6-year-hiatus-under-netanyahu/ 

Yoseph Hadad, “Amnesty Tries to Distort My Arab Identity and Dismantle Israel – Opinion,” The Jerusalem Post, February 7, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-695337 

Simon Henderson, “Bennett’s Bahrain Visit Further Invigorates Israel-Gulf Diplomacy,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 14, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/bennetts-bahrain-visit-further-invigorates-israel-gulf-diplomacy  

David Horovitz, “Why Israel must stand squarely with Ukraine,” Times of Israel, February 28, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-israel-must-stand-squarely-with-ukraine/ 

Ephraim Inbar, “A US failure in Ukraine Crisis could lead to a conflagration in Middle East, Asia,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, February 7, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/inbar-us-failure-in-ukraine-crisis/ 

INSS Staff, INSS Researchers Tweet about the War in Europe,” INSS, February 24, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/social_media/inss-researchers-tweet/  

Yaakov Katz, “Hamas Doesn’t Need Sheikh Jarrah or Jerusalem to Start a War,” The Jerusalem Post, February 17, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-696874 

Patrick Kingsley, Isabel Kershner and Ronen Bergman, “War in Ukraine Forces Israel Into a Delicate Balancing Act,” New York Times, February 27, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/27/world/middleeast/israel-ukraine-russia.html?searchResultPosition=1 

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israeli aid experts reach typhoon-hit Philippines,” Israel21C, February 22, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-aid-experts-reach-typhoon-hit-philippines/  

Moshe Kwiat, “Solemeini’s Revenge from Cyberspace: A Blatant Escalation,” Beehive, Moshe Dayan Center, February 28, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/solemeinis-revenge-cyberspace-blatant-escalation  

Edward Luttwak, “Iran’s Performative Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: An Interpretation of Iran’s Current Policy Toward Its Jewish Community and Israel,” The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, January 11, 2022, https://jstribune.com/luttwak-irans-performative-antisemitism-and-anti-zionism/ 

The Media Line and Ynet, “Palestinian Authority’s Waning Power in West Bank Cause for Concern,” YNet, February 19, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkxl0w5kq 

Kobi Michael, Yoel Guzansky, “Revisiting the Possibility of a Regional Military Alliance,” INSS, February 24, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/nato-of-the-middle-east/  

Aaron David Miller, “Israel and the Gulf: A Security Partnership Around the Corner?” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, February 10, 2022, https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/02/10/israel-and-gulf-security-partnership-around-corner-pub-86433 

Michael Milshtein, “The New Way”: The Key to Understanding Ra’am’s Strategy,” Bayan, Moshe Dayan Center, February 24, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/new-way-key-understanding-raams-strategy  

Assaf Orion, “Beyond Chastity Belt and Road: US-Israel Relations in the Age of Great Power Competition,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 6, 2022,  https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/beyond-chastity-belt-and-road-us-israel-relations-age-great-power-competition  

Daniel Rakov, “Understanding the Russia-Iran-Israel Triangle,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, February 9, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/rakov-the-russia-iran-israel-triangle/ 

Reuters Staff, “Demand for Hebrew lessons jumps in Gaza as Israel eases work restrictions,” Alarabiya News, February 23, 2022, https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2022/02/23/Demand-for-Hebrew-lessons-jumps-in-Gaza-as-Israel-eases-work-restrictions 

Reuters Staff, “U.S. House Leader Nancy Pelosi arrives in Israel, vows support on Iran,” Reuters, February 16, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-house-leader-nancy-pelosi-arrives-israel-vows-support-iran-2022-02-16/ 

Paul Rivlin, “Zero-Sum versus Win-Win in the Middle East,” Iqtisadi: Moshe Dayan Center, February 22, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/zero-sum-versus-win-win-middle-east  

Shira Rubin, “Capitalism had Israel’s kibbutzim on the ropes. Then they discovered pot,” Washington Post, February 12, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/09/israel-cannabis-marijuana-kibbutz/ 

Robert Satloff, “Three Presidents, Three Flawed Iran Policies, and the Path Ahead,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 25, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/three-presidents-three-flawed-iran-policies-and-path-ahead  

Tehilla Schwartz Altshuler, Amir Cahane, “The Israeli Public Has a Right to Know About Illegal Surveillance,” Israel Democracy Institute, February 7, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38287  

Mohamed Abu Shaar, “Escalation in Jerusalem and the West Bank,” Ahram Online, February 19, 2022, https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1203/461158/AlAhram-Weekly/World/Escalation-in-Jerusalem-and-the-West-Bank.aspx 

Amy Spiro, “Dozens of US lawmakers descend on Israel with AIPAC-affiliated trip,” Times of Israel, February 21, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/dozens-of-us-lawmakers-descend-on-israel-with-aipac-affiliated-trip/ 

Carol Troen, “A Glossary of Terms on modern Israel,” February 27, 2022, https://israeled.org/a-glossary-of-terms-on-modern-israel-in-essential-israel/

Yohanan Tzoreff, “Fatah Central Committee Decisions Accelerate the Decline of PA Legitimacy,”INSS, February 6, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/pa-legitimacy/ 

Frederic Wehrey, Ninar Fawal, “Cascading Climate Effects in the Middle East and North Africa: Adapting Through Inclusive Governance,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, February 24, 2022, https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/02/24/cascading-climate-effects-in-middle-east-and-north-africa-adapting-through-inclusive-governance-pub-86510 

Moran Zaga, “The UAE Under Attack: A Foreign Policy Test,” Tel Aviv Notes: Moshe Dayan Center, February 10, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/uae-under-attack-foreign-policy-test  

Tova Zimuky, “Israel appoints first-ever Muslim Supreme Court justice,” YNet, February 21, 2022, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hylwdxzgq 


#107 Contemporary Readings January 2022

February 2, 2022

Updated February 2, 2022
Assembled by Ken Stein and Michele Freesman-Levenson, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and the Center for Israel Education, kenstein@israeled.org

Musa Alami, “The Lesson of Palestine,” Middle East Journal, October 1949, reprinted with permission,https://israeled.org/musa-alami-the-lesson-of-palestine-middle-east-journal-october-1949-reprinted-with-permission/

Tomer Barak and Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, “Confronting Climate Change, Turkey Needs ‘Green’ Leadership Now More than Ever,” Middle East Institute, January 25, 2022, https://www.mei.edu/publications/confronting-climate-change-turkey-needs-green-leadership-now-more-ever

Ilan Ben Zion, “Israel’s national library sees Arabic site traffic boom,” AP News, January 9, 2022, https://apnews.com/article/europe-middle-east-religion-jerusalem-israel-f98e10b91a0101f9dda630cfd972bbb3 

Joshua Albin Cheyaden, “A Saudi-Pakistani Reset: Business as Usual?” Moshe Dayan Center, January 31, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/saudi-pakistani-reset-business-usual 

Ana Borshchevskaya, “Russia’s Strategic Success in Syria and the Future of Moscow’s Middle East Policy,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 23, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/russias-strategic-success-syria-and-future-moscows-middle-east-policy 

Soner Cagaptay, “Erdogan’s End Game,” Foreign Affairs, January 4, 2022, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2022-01-04/erdogans-end-game

Sarah Dadouch, “Iran is putting down roots in eastern Syria, outcompeting Assad’s regime in signing up fighters,” Washington Post, January 28, 2021 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/28/iran-syria-militias-deir-al-zour/ 

Boaz Dolev and David Siman-Tov, “Iranian Cyber Influence Operations against Israel Disguised as Ransomware Attacks,” INSS, January 27, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/cyber-iran/ 

Farnaz Fassihi and Lara Jakes, “Trading Threats, the U.S. and Iran Inch Closer to a Nuclear Pact,” New York Times, January 12, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/world/middleeast/us-iran-nuclear-deal.html?referringSource=articleShare 

Eytan Gilboa, “Will US-Israel Ties Withstand Possible Strains Due to the Iranian and Palestinian Issues?” The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, January 26, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/gilboa-will-us-israel-ties-withstand-possible-strains/

Rick Gladstone, “U.N. Approves Israeli Measure to Condemn Holocaust Denial,” New York Times, January 20, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/world/americas/united-nations-holocaust-resolution.html?searchResultPosition=10 

Daniel Gordis, “Continuity Requires Content,” SAPIR: A Journal of Jewish Conversations, vol. 3, (Autumn 2021): 54-63, https://sapirjournal.org/continuity/2021/10/continuity-requires-content/

Shira Hanau, “Rabbi Simcha Krauss, who fought for women’s rights in Orthodoxy, dies at 85,” Haaretz, January 24, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbi-simcha-krauss-who-fought-for-womens-rights-in-orthodoxy-dies-at-85/ 

Amir Hayek, “Something Natural Is Happening Here and Now,” Khaleej Times, January 30, 2022, https://www.khaleejtimes.com/supplements/something-natural-is-happening-here-and-now 

Ariel Heimann, “Salaries, Compensation, and Benefits in the IDF: Implications for the Regular and Reserve Service Model,” INSS, January 12, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/idf-wages/ 

Simon Henderson, “Reality Check for Israel’s Natural Gas Plans,” The Washington Institute, January 27, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/reality-check-israels-natural-gas-plans

Tamar Hermann, “The Erratic Pulse of Israeli Democracy,” Israel Democracy Institute, January 20, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/podcasts/38147 

Tamar Hermann, Or Anabi, Yaron Kaplan, Inna Orly Sapozhnikova, “The Israeli Democracy Index 2021,” Israel Democracy Institute, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/publications/37984 

President of Israel, “UAE Presidential Visit: President Isaac Herzog and the First Lady Meet Jewish community representatives in the United Arab Emirates,” January 30, 2022, https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/press-3001224

Adi Kantor, “An Overview of Contemporary Antisemitism,” INSS, January 27, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/adi-kantor/

Michael Kaminer, “House Hunting in Israel: An Inventive Use of Concrete Outside of Tel Aviv,” New York Times, January 5, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/realestate/house-hunting-in-israel-an-inventive-use-of-concrete-outside-of-tel-aviv.html?searchResultPosition=31 

Isabel Kershner, “Israeli Artist Turns Plastic Pollution Into ‘Earth Poetica,’” New York Times, January 16, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/16/arts/design/beverly-barkat-artist-israel-plastic.html?searchResultPosition=12 

Mehdi Khalaji, “Iran’s Increased Persecution of the Bahai,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 21, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/irans-increased-persecution-bahai 

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israel’s first Winter Paralympics athlete is alpine skier,” Israel21C, January 23, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/israels-first-winter-paralympics-athlete-is-alpine-skier/ 

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israeli STEM program empowers girls in Ghana,” Israel21C, January 19, 2022, https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-stem-program-empowers-girls-in-ghana/ 

Ephraim Lavie, Mohammed S. Wattad, Meir Elran, “Curbing Violence and Crime in Arab Society: The Risk of a Missed Opportunity,” INSS, January 16, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/arab-community-violence/ 

Doaa A. Moneim, “Egypt to receive $368 mln loan from AMF to boost country’s financial position amid COVID-19,” Ahram Online, January 29, 2022, https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/457121.aspx 

Guy Lurie, “The Tenure on the Bench of Supreme Court Justices,” Israel Democracy Institute, January 20, 2022, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/38143 

David Makovsky, “Israeli Coalition Leaders Navigate Protests and Political Constraints,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 14, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israeli-coalition-leaders-navigate-protests-and-political-constraints 

Aviad Mendelboim, Yoram Schweitzer, Ido Gadi Raz, “Suicide Attacks Worldwide in 2021: The Downward Trend Continues,” INSS, January 10, 2022, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/suicide-attacks-2021/ 

Alon Pinkas, “Biden’s First Year in the Middle East Was Predictable and Underwhelming – and That’s Good,” Haaretz, January 20, 2022, https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-biden-s-first-year-in-the-mideast-was-predictable-and-underwhelming-and-that-s-good-1.10553281?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=97e7ef60d5 

Anshel Pferffer, “Confounding Critics, Israel’s Yair Lapid Marks Surprising Decade in Politics,” Haaretz, January 9, 2022, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-confounding-critics-israel-s-yair-lapid-marks-surprising-decade-in-politics-1.10525802 

Barak Ravid, “U.S. sees “snapback” sanctions threat as tool to deter Iran enrichment,” Axios, January 5, 2022, https://www.axios.com/us-snapback-sanctions-iran-deal-211bbb13-d587-4bd3-bdfc-89f842bbc148.html 

Marc Rod, “Congress launches bipartisan Abraham Accords Caucus,” Jewish Insider, January 10, 2022, https://jewishinsider.com/2022/01/congress-abraham-accords-caucus-launch/ 

Dennis Ross, “A Needed Warning for Yemen’s Rebels—and for Our Allies and Enemies Alike,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 24, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/needed-warning-yemens-rebels-and-our-allies-and-enemies-alike 

Uzi Rubin, “Iran’s Drones Tip the Balance of Power in the Middle East,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, January 25, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/rubin-irans-drones-tip-the-balance-of-power-in-mideast/ 

Robert Satloff, ““The Holocaust was an Arab Story too”: Holocaust Remembrance in the Arab World,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 28, 2022, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/holocaust-was-arab-story-too-holocaust-remembrance-arab-world 

Jonathan Spyer, “Current Trends in Syria and the Israeli national interest,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, January 10, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/spyer-current-trends-in-syria/ 

Jonathan Spyer, “Houthi/Iranian attacks on UAE a response to losses on the Yemen battlefield,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, January 31, 2022, https://jiss.org.il/en/spyer-houthi-iranian-attacks-on-uae/ 

TOI Staff, “Israel signs secret deal to transfer natural gas to Lebanon — TV,” Times of Israel, January 15, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-signs-secret-deal-to-transfer-natural-gas-to-lebanon-tv/ 

Kenneth Stein, “An Israel Syllabus that informs – decades of proof,” Center for Israel Education, https://israeled.org/an-israel-syllabus-that-informs-decades-of-proof/

Khaled Abu Toameh, “Palestinian online campaign blames Hamas for Gaza misery,” Jerusalem Post, January 29, 2022, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-694921 

Eyal Zisser, “Demography still plays a critical role in the Middle East,” Moshe Dayan Center, January 9, 2022, https://dayan.org/content/demography-still-plays-critical-role-middle-east 


#106 Contemporary Readings December 2021

January 7, 2022

Updated January 4, 2022 

Assembled by Ken Stein and Michele Freesman-Levenson, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and the Center for Israel Education, kenstein@israeled.org 

Elliott Abrams, “Murmurs About Palestine as 2021 Ends,” Council on Foreign Relations, December 15, 2021, https://www.cfr.org/blog/murmurs-about-palestine-2021-ends  

Associated Press, “Israeli leader returning home from UAE ‘very optimistic’.” Y-Net, December 14, 2021, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1mmwib9f  

Daphna Aviram-Nitzan and Roe Kenneth Portal, “Is Israel Also Experiencing a “Great Resignation”?” Israel Democracy Institute, December 22, 2021, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/37822  

Steven Bayme, “American Jewry and Israel: Whither the Next Generation?” Center for Israel Education, December 2, 2021, https://israeled.org/american-jewry-and-israel-whither-the-next-generation/  

Naama Barak, “Israeli film on WWII Nazis hidden in US is Oscar contender,” Israel21C, December 23, 2021, https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-film-on-wwii-nazis-hidden-in-us-is-oscar-contender/  

Danya Belkin and Oreen Cohen, “Tracing the history of Tel Aviv through its street names,” Israel21C, December 30, 2021, https://www.israel21c.org/tracing-the-history-of-tel-aviv-through-its-street-names/ 

Howard Berman, Michèle Flournoy, Jane Harman, Leon Panetta, David Petraeus, Dennis Ross, and Robert Satloff, “Statement on Improving the Potential for a Diplomatic Resolution to the Iran Nuclear Challenge,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 17, 2021, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/about/press-room/press-release/statement-improving-potential-diplomatic-resolution-iran-nuclear  

Anna Borshchevskaya, “How the Death of the Soviet Union Transformed the Middle East,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 21, 2021, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-death-soviet-union-transformed-middle-east  

Mitchell Cohen, “Why Today’s Middle East Needs Henry Kissinger’s ‘Less Is More’ Approach,” Politico, December 29, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/29/middle-east-kissinger-526220  

Dalia Dassa Kaye, Linda Robinson, Jeffrey Martini, Nathan Vest, Ashley L. Rhoades, “Reimagining U.S. Strategy in the Middle East,” Rand Corporation, 2021, https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA958-1.html  

Hillel Frisch, “Hamas takeover of Gaza killed the two-state solution,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, December 23, 2021, https://jiss.org.il/en/frisch-hamas-takeover-of-gaza-killed-the-two-state-solution/  

Daniel Gordis, “Continuity Requires Content,” Sapir Journal, Autumn 2021, https://sapirjournal.org/continuity/2021/10/continuity-requires-content/  

Judah Ari Gross, “War: What Israel talks about when it talks about striking Iran’s nuclear program,” Times of Israel, December 3, 2021, https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-israels-talking-about-when-it-talks-about-striking-irans-nuclear-program-war/  

Tamar Herrmann and Or Anabi, “Does Iran pose an existential threat? Israeli Voice Index November 2021,” Israel Democrcay Institute, December 8, 2021, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/36760  

David Horovitz, “Iran — the gamble, the original sin, and the unthinkable current consequence,” Times of Israel, December 2, 2021, https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-the-gamble-the-original-sin-and-the-unthinkable-current-consequence/  

David Horovitz, “Why is Israel again abandoning the Solomonic wisdom of the Western Wall compromise?,” Times of Israel, December 16, 2021, https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-is-israel-again-abandoning-the-solomonic-wisdom-of-the-western-wall-compromise/  

Rony Karstadt, “Trust, Truth, and National Security: The Cognitive Battle in the Digital Age – Summary of the 2021 Conference of the Lipkin-Shahak Program,” INSS, December 15, 2021, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/lipkin-shahak-annual-3/  

Rachel Kaufman, “Women and Social Media: Key Drivers of Protest in Iraq,” Wilson Center, December 22, 2021, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/women-and-social-media-key-drivers-protest-iraq  

Patrick Kingsley, “Israeli Leader Holds Historic Meeting With Emirati Crown Prince,” New York Times, December 13, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/world/middleeast/israel-uae-naftali-bennett.html  

Eran Lerman, “Israel, the US, and the Iranian Nuclear project – back to basics,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, December 8, 2021, https://jiss.org.il/en/lerman-israel-the-us-and-the-iranian-nuclear-project-2/  

Moran Levanoni, “No Boundaries – The Syrian-Lebanese Drug Economy,” Moshe Dayan Center, December 22, 2021, https://dayan.org/content/no-boundaries-syrian-lebanese-drug-economy  

David Makovsky, “Bennet Visit Shows the UAE Balancing Between Israeli Ties and Regional De-escalation,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 16, 2021, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/bennett-visit-shows-uae-balancing-between-israeli-ties-and-regional-de-escalation  

Giland Malach and Lee Cahaner, “Two Thirds of Ultra-Orthodox Are Online,” Israel Democracy Insititute, December 30, 2021, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/37838  

David May, Jonathan Schanzer, “Israel’s Arabs are the latest victim of Iran’s proxy wars,” Al-Arabiya, December 9, 2021, https://english.alarabiya.net/views/2021/12/09/Israel-s-Arabs-are-the-latest-victim-of-Iran-s-proxy-wars  

Kobi Michael, “Israel’s Moment of Truth in Dealing with Hamas?” INSS, December 23, 2021, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/hamas-israel/  

Aaron David Miller, “Bennett’s Breakthrough,” Malcom H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, December 15, 2021, https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/85992  

Aaron David Miller, “Israel and the Gulf State Are Becoming Closer. But It Won’t Make Biden’s Life Much Easier,” Politico, December 16, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/16/israel-emirati-rapprochement-biden-middle-east-problem-524851  

Assa Ophir, “Turkey’s Nuclear Future,” Moshe Dayan Center, December 15, 2021, https://dayan.org/content/turkeys-nuclear-future  

Anshel Pfeffer, “2021, the Year Israel Learned Not to Take Its Democracy for Granted,” Haaretz, December 30, 2021, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-2021-the-year-israel-learned-not-to-take-its-democracy-for-granted-1.10504575  

David Pollack, “The UAE’S Second Half-Century: Building Forward to What?” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 2, 2021, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/uaes-second-half-century-building-forward-what  

Makram Rabah, “The Palestinian refugee camp explosion shows that Hamas is in the pocket of Iran,” Al-Arabiya, December 19, 2021,  https://english.alarabiya.net/views/2021/12/19/The-Palestinian-refugee-camp-explosion-shows-that-Hamas-is-in-the-pocket-of-Iran  

Yair Rosenberg, “Yair Lapid: Extremist Violence Is a ‘Stain on Israel,’” The Atlantic, December 15, 2021, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/yair-lapid-israel-interview/621018/  

Arik Rudnitzky, “Comprehensive Survey of Political Opinion among the Arab Public,” Moshe Dayan Center, December 14, 2021, https://dayan.org/content/comprehensive-survey-political-opinion-among-arab-public  

David E. Sanger and Patrick Kingsley, “Lapid Says Israel Will Support Iran Nuclear Pact if It’s ‘a Good Deal,” New York Times, December 23, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/world/middleeast/lapid-israel-nuclear-iran-palestinians.html?searchResultPosition=8  

Yuval Shany and Amir Fuchs, “The Lack of the Right to Equality in Israel is Unique in the Democratic World,” Israel Democracy Institute, December 4, 2021, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/36778  

Khalil Shikaki, “Public Opinion Poll No (82),” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, December 27, 2021, https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/866  

Kenneth W. Stein, “The Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty – Context and Implications,” Center for Israel Education, December 27, 2021, https://israeled.org/egyptian-israeli-peace-treaty-context-and-implications/  

Kenneth W. Stein, “In Damascus in December 1973–Kissinger rebuffed by Assad: ‘Mr. Secretary, is it my turn to speak?’” December 15, 2021, Center for Israel Education, December 15, 2021, https://israeled.org/december-1973-kissinger-rebuffed-by-assad/  

Khaled Abu Toameh, “Hamas, PA responsible for crises, say Gazans – poll,” Jerusalem Post, December 24, 2021, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-689610  

Khaled Abu Toameh, “Is the Palestinian Authority losing control? – analysis,” Jerusalem Post, December 14, 2021, https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/is-the-palestinian-authority-losing-control-analysis-688731  

Khaled Abu Toameh, “Palestinian factions decry ‘disgraceful’ Abbas-Gantz meeting,” Jerusalem Post, December 29, 2021, https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-690082  

Yohanan Tzoreff, “Israel and the Palestinians: Approaching an Age that Defies Negotiations?” INSS, December 16, 2021, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/palestine-authority-new-age/  

Ryan Zaitoun, “Old Loyalties, New Opportunities: the Battle for Identity among the Golani Druze,” Wilson Center, December 22, 2021, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/old-loyalties-new-opportunities-battle-identity-among-golani-druze  

Jim Zanotti, “Israel: Background and U.S. Relations in Brief,” Congressional Research Service, December 2, 2021, https://sgp.fas.org/crs/mideast/R44245.pdf  

Neri Zilber, “Why Israel (Sort of) Misses the Iran Deal,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 6, 2021, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/why-israel-sort-misses-iran-deal