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Accounting for AbbasThursday, June 7, 2012 by Jonathan Schanzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Mahmoud Abbas has struggled to match Yasser Arafat as a popular leader, he has proven to be at least as adept as his predecessor in embezzling funds.
The Six-Day War: Day ThreeAs Nasser was ordering his army to flee the Sinai, King Hussein commanded his to stay put. But within the Old City, only a hundred soldiers remained, the rest having already retreated toward the East Bank.
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Ed Rettig | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As non-Orthodox movements celebrate the ruling allowing their rabbis to receive public money in Israel, they should remember that with government funding comes government control.India’s Jewish General
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Aimee Ginsburg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Asked to name a great Jewish warrior, few Jews would point to Jack Jacob. But in his native India, the Jewish general who won the Indo-Pakistan War is a hero.The Yeridah Myth
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Pini Herman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The received wisdom has long been that Israel has a problem with emigration. Yet the data shows not only that comparatively few Israelis leave, but also that most come back.The “Eikhah Problem”
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Dara Horn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why do Jews persist in believing that anti-Semitism is their own fault? (Video)Bild-ing Zion
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 by Igal Avidan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new Frankfurt exhibition asks, why did Axel Springer, Christian publisher of the German newspaper Bild, openly take sides with the Jewish people after World War II?
The Six-Day War: Day TwoOn June 6th, 1967, by 8:00 a.m. Tel Aviv time, Israeli forces had entered el-Arish. It initially seemed desolate, but the Israelis were soon under fire from every window. Israel's leadership, not expecting the war to move so quickly, had not considered what do to beyond el-Arish.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 by Ronen Bergman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Angela Merkel thought Israel was going to freeze settlements in return for getting German nuclear-capable submarines. There's been no freeze, but Germany is sending the subs anyway.Refugees Forever
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 by Asaf Romirowsky and Alexander Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
UNRWA says that grandchildren of Palestinian refugees remain "refugees." No other refugee group gets this treatment—but, then, no other group supplies the majority of UNRWA's staff.