UAE-Israel deal was born of Arab despair * My grandfather wrote his own ‘Mein Kampf’ * Whoops, Israel forgot 53 COVID deaths * Trump’s anti-Jewi sh dog whistle

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, August 20, 2020 From the blogs [What Emiratis are like: Insights from a Jew who lived among them]( By [Michael Bassin]( [None of the Emiratis I was friends with were bothered by me being a Jew or a supporter of Israel. But others were…]( [David Eden]( [I was the Jewish ‘journalism expert’ at United Arab Emirates University]( [I was the first Jew any of my students and most others during my time in Al Ain, had ever met. I never had a single negative reaction]( [Michael Oren]( [Stunning Israel-UAE deal upends the ‘rules’ about peace-making in Middle East]( [Setting aside a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the main impediment to peace, to work on the region’s other priorities, marks a fundamental shift that just might work]( [Jason Isaacson]( [How about a modest deal with Israel? The UAE official smiled at us…and said no]( [After 25 years of quiet visits to the Gulf, we came to expect incremental progress, but, in fact, this audacious peace move makes perfect sense]( [Yossi Klein Halevi]( [Born of internal Arab despair, UAE deal gives Israel genuine chance of peace]( [5 thoughts on the deal: The Arab world’s crisis; a Palestinian state?; the tragedy of Netanyahu; the right’s betrayal; and what makes Israelis tick]( [Naomi Chazan]( [Israel and the UAE: A reality check]( [Before you read too much into this act of diplomacy, keep in mind that even conversations about a just and lasting peace are a long way off]( [Varda Spiegel]( [Trump just dog-whistled to Christians that Jews are ingrates]( [Forget the false claim he moved Israel’s ’capital’ to Jerusalem, I worry when the US president suggests Jews aren’t excited enough]( [Yosef I. Abramowitz]( [Shabbat dinner with Kamala and Doug]( [At dessert, the now-US VP contender told us her goal was to hold the center together on Israel in the Democratic Party]( [My father hid from the Nazis in a coffee pot. True story.]( By [Esther Toporek Finder]( [The tale of how my dad survived by climbing into a pot wearing wooden clogs made much more sense when I finally saw the pot and the shoes]( [Silvia Foti]( [My grandfather wrote the ‘Mein Kampf’ of Lithuania: Here’s what it says]( [I expected WWII hero Jonas Noreika’s booklet to be a rallying cry to patriotism. I was not prepared for what I found instead]( [Nathan Jeffay]( [Israel forgot 53 COVID deaths. Stats screw-up is devastating — and irrelevant]( [Statistics have become our pandemic security blanket, and with its major miscalculation, the government has taken away a source of calm]( [Jim Shalom]( [We kept COVID-19 out of two nursing homes]( [Unfortunately, residents pay a price for the isolating measures that are keeping them alive, both in terms of how we provide care and how their families interact with them]( [Jenny and Tzippy and that aching middle place]( By [Sarah Tuttle-Singer]( [Of mothers and daughters, and cats and kittens, and that time of maturity when surely we will all get along]( more choice voices [Hannah Gal]( [The young ’wokes’]( [In the wake of Bari Weiss’s resignation, a growing subculture defines ’wrongthink,’ narrowing the bounds of what any of us can say]( [Keren R. McGinity]( [These days, serious Jews marry who they fall in love with]( [The claim that a Jew either cares about their heritage or marries a non-Jew is an outdated notion by those who have not studied intermarriage]( [Diana Barshaw]( [Beauty, thankfulness, comfort and study: The power of prayer]( [I have found prayer in my silent accounting of everything I have to be thankful for, but I’m convinced that if I could believe in God, I’d pray better]( [Douglas MacKinnon]( [Jared Kushner is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize]( [His work on the UAE-Israel deal should put him in the running for the Prize. But with Trump as his father-in-law, the chances are zero]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2020 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved