Yitzhak Rabin’s first necktie * A Palestinian dreams of Isaac and Ishmael * Shalom and welcome to Bahrain * Trump VS. liberals’ Mideast fallacie s * Trick or tractate?

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, October 29, 2020 [Yitzhak Rabin was always a realist. How would he have handled the 2020 Mideast?]( By [Dennis Ross and David Makovsky]( [For starters, he’d have used the new ties with the Gulf states to help restore the sense of possibility for peace with the Palestinians, and broken the stalemate with them]( [Zack Rothbart]( [Rabin’s first peace negotiation (and necktie)]( [The threadbare suit the future PM wore in 1949 when in Rhodes for armistice talks spoke volumes about the man and his fledgling nation]( [Yair Lapid]( [Yitzhak Rabin’s true legacy is trust]( [Yitzhak Rabin's real legacy isn't peace and it isn't war. It's trust. Rabin's leadership was based on trust. People believed him and so they trusted him. He led soldiers into the battle and they believed in him. He was a chief of staff, minister of defense and prime minister who the public trusted. He lived and died a man of integrity. He said what he thought and did what he said. He was assassinated because the assassin believed him. The murderer believed that Rabin wouldn't step back, wouldn't blink and...]( [Kenneth Jacobson]( [Words matter: Reflecting on the 25 years since Rabin’s assassination]( [Rhetoric spawned violence, and it could again; 45% of Israelis believe that incitement could lead to another assassination for political ends]( From the blogs [A Palestinian dreams of Isaac and Ishmael]( By [Mosab Hassan Yousef]( [In the eternal battle between fear and hope, writes the ‘Green Prince,’ the Abraham Accords offer a chance to break free from irreconcilable dogmas and imagine what is possible]( [Houda Nonoo]( [Shalom and welcome to Bahrain]( [I was the first Bahraini female Jewish envoy to the US, so you can believe me when I tell you that my country is a bastion of religious freedom. Come see it for yourselves!]( [Josef Joffe]( [Trump demolished liberals’ Mideast fallacies – he had help from Iran]( [‘Palestine First’ died in Abu Dhabi. Yet Orange Man was just the midwife of the Abraham Accords. The deal was fathered by imperialist Tehran]( [Martin Weiner]( [Trump’s pandering to QAnon should be a deal-breaker]( [The last time a US president failed to repudiate proponents of rabid conspiracy theories that echo blood libels against Jews was…never]( [Michael Hilkowitz]( [6,285 points to consider when discussing an Israeli-Sudanese peace]( [The new diplomacy may push Israel to take action on the local asylum seekers from Sudan; or Bibi could buy time by granting them 5 years of temporary residence]( [CRM]( From the blogs [After the Tree of Life shooting, I went to Shabbat services and never stopped]( By [Ed Gaskin]( [Going to temple weekly for 2 years has taught me profound lessons about Jews and Blacks in America and enriched my own Christian faith]( [Joe Biden]( [Joe Biden: 2 years after the Tree of Life shooting, we must be the light]( [If I am elected, we will fight the evil that is anti-Semitism, address domestic extremism and maintain our unbreakable bond with Israel]( [Rachel Sharansky Danziger]( [The day we leave these arks]( [Will we rise to the challenge, and shape the post-coronavirus world to be a better place? Or will we try, like Noah, to leave this time in the past, and forget it all?]( [Mark Levenson]( [Trick or tractate?]( [The Talmud explains how to know if your house is infested with demons, but these writings about evil spirits always have a Jewish twist]( [Go, and know…]( By [Yael Leibowitz]( [When the world has grown small, and yet family feels farther away than ever, here’s a moment to pause, with a sense of pride, and an awareness of destiny (Lech Lecha)]( CHoice voices [Eldad Shavit]( [How Israelis get American elections wrong]( [Who’s better for Israel is not the question. Either way, Israel will face the same foreign policy challenges and must get ready to seize opportunities]( [Jack Engel]( [Why I love my children]( [They are not my clones. They may even vote for the wrong candidate! And yet, the Torah offers a model of parental love that is profoundly realistic]( [Shuki Friedman]( [Ultra-Orthodox non-compliance rests on fear]( [The rabbis are assigning higher priority to ’customer retention’ than to the clear halakhic imperative to preserve health and life]( [Uri Pilichowski]( [100 times President Trump supported Israel]( [Sure, he moved the embassy to Jerusalem, paved the way for the Abraham Accord and recognized Golan sovereignty, but there’s more. Much more.]( [Romi Sussman]( [How a man I never met changed my life]( [It was the Second Intifada, my eldest was a baby, and we were deliberating visiting Israel – how could we, with all the terror attacks?!]( [Mahesh Sachdev]( [Why India supports the Abraham Accord]( [My country is deeply engaged with the GCC states in myriad domains and is a close and large market for the fruits of this new partnership]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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