Moment
“Not all Hitler comparisons are equal,” writes Nathan Guttman in this week’s Jewish Politics and Power newsletter. Guttman looks at the Republican candidates, recent speeches and the political stances on the war in Gaza.
“Listening is much more important than speaking.” Participants in Moment’s Wisdom Project, which highlights stories of those lucky enough to have lived long Jewish lives, share their words of wisdom and pieces of advice as the year comes to an end.
Some Palestinians ask, “How can we not compare the Nazi atrocities in the Holocaust to the mass killings of civilians and children in Gaza?
Moment
What’s going on behind the scenes in Israel, Gaza, the U.S., throughout the Middle East and the world? Is the Israel-Hamas war going to come to an end soon, and what constitutes a successful end for Israel? Middle East analyst Aaron David Miller and Moment contributor Robert Siegel , return for another conversation to address these and other pressing questions.
Chief Justice Esther Hayut stated that even during wartime, “the court must fulfill its role and decide on the issues brought before it.”
Devout militants have gained power among both Israeli Jews and Palestinian Muslims, making the conflict even more intractable.
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Why do so few of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s historical roots and possible solutions, once actively discussed by both Jews and Arabs, make it into the conversation today?
2023 was one of those years when we really, really needed our books.
Biden now faces a real possibility of losing the election because of his support for Israel.
It feels as though years of history have happened in 2023, and we’ve needed to “hate and forgive and remember and forget, to arrange and confuse, to eat and digest” with dizzying rapidity.
