Israel & Zionism
Iran has sparked conflict across the Middle East over the last few months. What are its aims? Is it succeeding?
It is apparently too much to expect fifteen expert jurists to understand how human language is commonly used.
A Jewish lawyer coined the term because there was no word that described the murder of a whole people. But the definition he favored is so loose it can apply to almost any conflict.
When it comes to describing Israel’s actions in war and peace, the world invests established terms with new meaning, and simply invents others.
Israel’s founding father argued for a conception of politics uniquely tailored to the Jewish state. Fifty years after his death, his country could use it more than ever.
The writer joins Mosaic’s editor Jonathan Silver to talk about the tradeoffs that Israel’s advanced defense technology brings.
A Middle East expert and former Palestinian negotiator breaks down recent polling on Palestinian public opinion.
Two current students and one recent graduate analyze what’s really happening in the universities and how Jewish students are reacting.
The distinguished strategist explains how such a small state has managed to become such a major innovator in defense technology.
Rarely heard in the speech of most Israelis in the past, b’sorot tovot, an ironic “good news,” has suddenly become a common way of saying goodbye.
Watch three leading analysts talk about the Palestinian predicament, and what role Israel’s war against Hamas could ultimately play.
A retired IDF brigadier general offers a preliminary retrospective on what happened in the three weeks before Israel’s ground forces moved into Gaza.
The name of the biblical tribe of murderers, the arch-rivals of ancient Israel, has been much discussed in the wake of October 7. Is that appropriate?
Why do we suddenly care so much about Israel or Jewish survival? Is it only the Jew as eternal victim that we cherish? Hardly—it is the Jewish way of living that matters.