| | | | | | | | | | This was a dramatic week for European politics. Daniel J. Solomon writes that French Jews' relief at the far-right's reversal of fortunes is tempered by their revulsion at the far-left's gains, and that the scars left on the French body politic by this election made it more embittered and divided than ever, leading French Jewry to fear for its very existence.
Robert Zaretsky argued just ahead of France's elections that the values and laws that have protected all French citizens for centuries were on the ballot, and that this should have France's minorities, including its Jews, on guard.
Gisela Dachs, an expert on European politics, writes that in Germany, publicly supporting the far right AfD party is a badge of shame but that its popularity is on the rise, and France-style tactics to block the far right won't necessarily work.
Nicole Lampert writes that Keir Starmer's long game to return Labour to the political center and rid it of antisemitism paid off and made him the next U.K. prime minister. But she argues that with Israel and the Gaza war as a wedge issue and the populist right on the rise, worrying undercurrents still abound.
Bilal Y. Saab, a former Pentagon advisor who just returned from Beirut, writes that nothing can really prevent both Israel and Hezbollah from going to war if they want to, but that counterintuitive as it sounds, there is still an off-ramp that could enable de-escalation.
Molly Malekar and Yariv Mohar of Amnesty International Israel argue that extreme voices within the anti-war movement around the world are jeopardizing the just cause of ending the bloodshed in Gaza and Israel's West Bank occupation, and that the silence of nearly all global human rights groups on this moral distortion is painful and wrong.
Arie W. Kruglanski, anexpert on the psychology of terrorism, and Joel Singer, a former Israeli official who helped negotiate the Oslo Accords, ask whether the timehas come to apply therapeutic principles to the seemingly intractable Israel-Palestine struggle. | | |
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