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How Israel and Lebanon can stop the slaughter

Nov 18, 2024 | unherd.com | Shany Mor

HezbollahIsraelLebanonPalestiniansrestofworldWar In the Middle East, transitions between US presidential administrations are often times of bold attempts at diplomacy. It was in the last days and hours of the Clinton administration that intense final status talks were advanced for an Israeli-Palestinian peace, only to be rejected by the Palestinians.
The Policies of October 6 Kept Israel Safe-Until They Didn’t

Nov 8, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Shany Mor

In my original essay on the failed concepts that brought Israel to the catastrophe of October 7, 2023, I asked to focus on the big mental models that had failed, not the tactical and intelligence failures on that deadly Saturday morning. This isn’t because tactical failures are unimportant and weren’t fateful, but rather because they don’t tell the whole story. I specifically drew attention to four big conceptual failures and the way the interaction between them became so disastrous.
The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7

Oct 7, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Shany Mor

One year ago today, an armed force of at least 3,000 men managed to penetrate a hostile border, overrun fixed and mobile defenses, commandeer army bases, and occupy for long hours a broad swath of Israeli territory in which they went house by house and village by village killing, burning, mutilating, raping, and abducting. For Israel, this was both an intelligence failure and a combat failure.
The Incurious Mind of Ta-Nahesi Coates: An American Naïf in Palestine

Jun 25, 2024 | fathomjournal.org | Shany Mor |Alan Johnson |Barry W. Finger

Barry Finger reviews Ta-Nahesi Coates’ book The Message. Finger is a frequent contributor to US socialist journals, a former shop steward and activist with the Public Employees Federation. What happens when a widely acclaimed talent commits himself to an all-encompassing gospel of American racial oppression and projects it onto the African continent and the Middle East?
Peter Beinart’s Grotesque Utopia

Jun 25, 2024 | fathomjournal.org | Toby Greene |Shany Mor |Matti Friedman

Peter Beinart’s Grotesque Utopia tweet share email print Peter Beinart’s essay ‘Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine’ saw him give up in the two-state solution and embrace the so-called ‘one state solution’. The essay sparked an international debate. Shany Mor argues that ‘Beinart doesn’t understand actual Israelis because he doesn’t care about the actual Israel. “Israel” for him is a projection, a cave shadow with which to imagine an argument with people and organisations in...
American Jewish Anti-Zionist Diasporism: A Critique

May 28, 2024 | fathomjournal.org | Shany Mor |Joshua Brook |Yisrael Medad |Elliott Abrams

Elliott Abrams casts a sharply critical eye over the American Jewish anti-Zionism and diasporism of Peter Beinart, Naomi Klein and others. In October, Abrams will publish a new book, ‘If You Will It’. Most American Jews have watched with disgust as the United Nations system—the General Assembly, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court—attacks the State of Israel week after week.
Israel’s Obligations Under the Genocide Convention

Jan 30, 2024 | stateoftelaviv.com | Shany Mor

Israel’s war in Gaza is not a violation of its commitments as a contracting party to the 1948 Genocide Convention. It is, in fact, a fulfillment of its obligations under the treaty.
Social Media Watchdogs Shame New York Times for “Rank Dishonesty,” “Statistical Manipulation”

Jan 19, 2024 | algemeiner.com | Shany Mor |Ira Stoll |Camera’s Ini

Social Media Watchdogs Shame New York Times for “Rank Dishonesty,” “Statistical Manipulation”[contact-form-7 404 "Not Found"] An encouraging development in the Israel-Hamas war is that the online pro-Israel press watchdogs finally seem to be getting the upper hand over the New York Times. A few recent examples tell the story.
A Special Dictionary for Israel » Mosaic

Jan 10, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Shany Mor

The essence of law is its generality. We appeal to the “rule of law” when we want to judge particular cases according to general norms. This is a fundamental truth for any kind of law, from municipal bylaws to international humanitarian law. A law is a general rule, made in a general spirit with a general application, to borrow from Jean-Jacques Rousseau. A decree, on the other hand, deals only with the particular. Rousseau is adamant on this distinction.
Fathom - ‘The idea of Hamas will remain in place as long as the Palestinian issue burns heavy in the hearts and minds of millions of Palestinians’ | The Fathom Interview: Gershon Baskin

Nov 28, 2023 | fathomjournal.org | Gershon Baskin |Shany Mor |Rob Pinfold

Fathom editors Alan Johnson and Jack Omer-Jackaman speak to renowned writer and peace activist Gershon Baskin. They discuss his recent Times of Israel article, co-authored with Samer Sinijlawi, a Palestinian political activist, entitled ‘The Necessary Peace – The Peace of No Choice’, in which Baskin lays out his vision for a two state solution after Hamas is defeated. Watch here. back