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Arik Elman
ARTICLES BY: Arik Elman
Middle East Peace Fantasies and the Israeli Reality
For the Prime Minister of Israel, it is flattery time in the international media. Having concluded that, for the foreseeable future, the Likudnik ogre from...
Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu is Not a King
I would love to pretend that when I started my last column with "If there are to be no more surprises", I really had some...
Early Israeli Elections Are All About Iran
If there are to be no more surprises (and G-d knows Israeli politics are full of them), in the beginning of the next week Prime...
Politicizing the Holocaust in Modern Israeli Politics
The somber rituals of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel are traditionally apolitical. When the nation's notables gather at Yad va-Shem and the first...
Islamists March on in Egypt, With Western Blessing
I know, I know. It is shocking. After numerous pledges not to seek Egyptian presidency, the Muslim Brotherhood has fielded a candidate and is geared...
Toulouse Terror and the Questionable Promise of Zionism
One of the unfortunate consequences of being a political observer for too long is that you develop an allergy to demagoguery. Such was the case...
The Trouble With the IDF
There's nothing so heart-warming as to read here, in Jerusalem, about the tremendous success of the annual gala dinner of the Friends of the IDF...
Obama at AIPAC, a Preview For a Miracle?
It could've been worse. After the disaster that was the Presidential speech to AIPAC in 2011, no doubt many delegates to this year's gathering (which is...
Obama and Netanyahu: The Summit of Discontent
When next Monday the American President sits down with the Israeli Prime Minister in the White House, this will be a historic meeting. Not because...
Liberal Montgomery County Drops Israel, Goes for FGM
American Jewish liberals can congratulate themselves - finally, the boycott of Israel has gone mainstream with Montgomery County, MD, deciding to drop its "Sister City"...
Divided We Stand: On Iran, Obama and Israel are Worlds Apart
Nowadays, when President Obama can't seem to find his way around a condom and a few bishops, it is rather hilarious to entertain a serious...
Russia: Syria’s Big Brother at the United Nations
Gruesome and utterly predictable bloody developments in Syria, despite their horror, serve one positive purpose. Anyone willing to consider a Ron Paul-like world where America...
The New York Times and Haaretz, Twin and Twisted Mirrors
It is never a good idea for a journalist to become part of the story. The latest one to learn this was the editor of...
Robert D. Kaplan’s Intellectual Arrogance and Moral Blindness
It is an open trade secret among intellectual anti-Semites that, when they find themselves in a bit of a pickle because of some small indiscretion...
