Tag: Israel
Delegitimizing Israel – The Arab World’s New Tactic (December 11, 2009)
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A real miracle or the doing of extraordinary people?
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Dec. 10, 2009
DANIEL GORDIS , THE JERUSALEM POST
It's been almost a year since St.-Sgt. Dvir Emanuelof became the first casualty of Operation Cast Lead, losing his life to Hamas mortar fire just as he entered Gaza early in the offensive. But sitting with his mother, Dalia, in her living room last week, I was struck not by loss, but by life. And not by grief, but by fervent belief. And by a more recent story about Dvir that simply needs to be told, especially now at Hanukka, our season of miracles.
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A Requiem for Peoplehood?
Nov. 26, 2009
DANIEL GORDIS , THE JERUSALEM POST
'It never even occurred to me that the Jews were a people." I had just finished speaking on Shabbat morning at a traditional shul on Long Island. The talk had been about the nation-state and its roots in the Book of Genesis. Along the way, I'd made some comments about the changing nature of American Jewish life today, and the ...
A Strategically Senseless Swap (A New York Times Column)
From a strategic perspective, freeing Gilad Shalit in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians makes no sense. The hundreds of prisoners now in Israeli prison were captured in dangerous operations, many of them at a cost of other Israeli casualties.
Despite security considerations, it's almost ...San Diego Book Fair – Saving Israel
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The Nation-State Called Israel – Key to the “Chosen People”?, Portland, November 2009
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The I’s Have It
Posted by Daniel Gordis in Featured Articles on October 18, 2009 | 47 Comments
No Right to Exhaustion
Posted by Daniel Gordis in Featured Articles on October 9, 2009 | 55 Comments
Dear Jay,
We don’t know each other, though I’ve known of you and your work for some time. Like many others, I recently read your “How I’m Losing My Love For Israel” in the Forward. Because you write so articulately, and because your column has attracted such widespread attention, I’m taking the liberty of responding.
The truth is, you and I agree about a lot. We’re both worried about some of what’s happening to Israeli society. We’re both tired of all the equivocating (though probably for different reasons). We’d both love some real leadership around here. We’d both like peace. And we’re both exhausted.
That exhaustion is the first reason you give for that fact that your “love [for Israel] is starting to wane.” But frankly, ...
Neve Gordon Is Not the Problem
Posted by Daniel Gordis in Featured Articles on September 3, 2009 | 20 Comments
Neve Gordon Is Not the Problem
Sep. 2, 2009 Daniel Gordis , THE JERUSALEM POST Intentionally or not, Neve Gordon, senior lecturer and head of the Political Science Department at Ben-Gurion University, has unleashed a firestorm in Israeli academe. His recent op-ed in The Los Angeles Times declared that Israel is an apartheid state, and that it ought to be boycotted to "save Israel ...
Dr. Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President of the Shalem Center, where he is also a senior fellow. The author of numerous books on Jewish thought and currents in Israel...
The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere else. 
