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The Holocaust. Economic growth. Hezbollah. Iran. Sanctions. UN. Settlement freeze. These were some of the topics discussed a roundtable event here in Zurich as part of a Keren Hayessod 90th anniversary celebration. The participants included former US ambassador Stuart Eizenstat and Ronen Bergmann, a Cambridge-educated Israeli journalist.
Now Eizenstat is sort of infamous in Switzerland. He’s [...]
Last night Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, spoke to a mixed crowd here in Zurich. By mixed, I mean half hard-core Israel can do no wrong types and half Israel can only do wrong types. For Neuer, who regularly appears in front of the UN Human Rights Council, speaking to a hostile crowd [...]
Following up on Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s lecture last week in Zurich, I find myself with one thought: how unclear and unfocused discussion on the Arab-Israeli conflict has become.
Don’t get me wrong. At times Riskin is straightforward, such as emphatically stating that the issue of settlements, contrary to Barack Obama’s opinion, is not central to the [...]
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