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Christopher Hitchens’s Jewish Problem Christopher Hitchens’s Jewish Problem
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

In another highlight from our archives, Benjamin Kerstein inquires into a revered writer's virulent hostility toward Judaism (December 13, 2010).
Frail Reeds? Frail Reeds?
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Observing Egypt's current upheaval, a writer for the Hebrew daily Makor Rishon has ventured the thought that whatever happens there, and no matter who takes power, "the lesson for Israel is clear: Arab regimes cannot be trusted."
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I Led Three Lives Karin Assmann, Felix Bohr, Gunther Latsch, Klaus Wiegrefe, Spiegel. Former neo-Nazi and PLO collaborator Willi Voss was prosecuted for his role in the Munich massacre. He went on to become a valuable CIA informant in Lebanon.
Who Won the War? Elliott Abrams, Weekly Standard. Both Hamas and Israel gained from last week's war in Gaza.  But the real winner was Egypt, and the real loser was the PLO.
Accounting for Anti-Zionism Efraim Karsh, Israel Affairs. The equation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is often dismissed as “Zionist propaganda.” But the claim challenges one of the fundamental tenets of Zionism.
IOU, IOC Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post. Thanking the Olympic Committee for its decision not to commemorate the PLO's 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes, the Palestinian Authority wrote that "sports is a bridge for . . . peace between peoples."