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At The GA, Fundraisers Eye A Jewish Earthquake | Ha'aretz

November 9, 2011

Perhaps the most poignant manifestation of this distress came before a hushed audience participating in the session “Israel: Have we lost that loving feeling” that featured the controversial former editor of the New Republic Peter Beinart, ...

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Palm Fronds and Political Thickets

  • By
  • Jonathan Guyer,
  • New America Foundation
October 7, 2011 |

In late August, after extended verbal clashes between Israel and Egypt, which followed a deadly terror attack on Israel emanating from Sinai and Israel's aggressive response to it, a Saudi newspaper already foresaw "the ghost of a new crisis ... on the horizons of the two countries." No, the paper wasn't anticipating an Egyptian mob's shocking September 9 siege of Israel's Cairo embassy. Rather, it was the effects of a ban issued by the Egyptian agriculture minister on the export of lulavs, a key ingredient in the observance of the festival of Sukkot.

Study Shows Young Conservative Rabbis Still Connected to Israel | Haaretz

September 27, 2011

US journalist Peter Beinart recently posited that the children of secular Zionists who supported Israel in its first decades no longer share their parents' attachment to the state. "Instead," Beinart wrote in the New York Review of Books, ...

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Israel's 'Threat' To Void the Oslo Accords Will Only Harm Netanyahu | Haaretz

July 25, 2011

In an article published over the weekend in the online journal, Foreign Policy, Daniel Levy, a senior member of the Washington think tank, the New America Foundation, discloses that in a meeting of the leaders of the Quartet last week in Washington, ...

The Israel Lobby Playbook - Rewritten by J Street | Haaretz

June 27, 2011

Some of Ben-Ami's warnings, related to the young generation of US Jews, were already extensively presented by Peter Beinart, who shills for the tome on the back cover, along with Bernard Avishai and others. He writes about the campaign "to silence ...

Israel Is Tearing Apart the Jewish People | Haaretz

June 23, 2011

In June last year, Peter Beinart published an article in the New York Review of Books that created quite a storm by pointing out the deep estrangement between the young generation of American Jews and Israel. ...

Experiment in Loyalty | Haaretz

June 13, 2011

One more point the report asks to consider is the young generation, those who can unofficially be tagged "Beinart followers" - referring to Peter Beinart, the young Jewish American journalist who has criticized Israel. "Despite the erosion of the ...

Haven't We Seen This Movie Before? | Haaretz

May 23, 2011

As Daniel Levy, director of the New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force, put it, "Netanyahu will receive a rousing ovation (sadly, that would probably be the case if Netanyahu read out the phone book, in Hebrew ). But he is unlikely to offer ...

An Israeli Process of Reconciliation

  • By
  • Daniel Levy,
  • New America Foundation
May 6, 2011 |

The Palestinian factions have reached a power-sharing deal - albeit a fragile one. Regional developments helped, affecting the calculations of both Fatah and Hamas. The role of post-Mubarak Egypt and its emerging independent regional policy cannot be underestimated. Israel's current government, though, is key to the glue binding Fatah and Hamas together. While the peace process has long been moribund, the Netanyahu government's refusal to indulge in the make-believe of possible progress rendered obsolete even Fatah's well-honed capacity to suspend disbelief.

Our Brothers, Ourselves | Haaretz

April 1, 2011

Few articles rocked the Jewish community in recent years like "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment," written by the former editor of The New Republic, Peter Beinart, in The New York Review of Books early last summer. ...

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