Lara Friedman
By Lara Friedman
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Opinion The Terror Rocking Jerusalem Is Not About God
Israeli emergency services cleans the sidewalk at the scene of the Jerusalem attack / Getty Images Four ultra-Orthodox Jews at prayer and one Druze policeman, murdered by two Palestinian young men armed with knives, axes and a gun. The heart grieves for the families of the victims and the suffering of the injured. This past…
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Opinion Did Hamas Get Bibi to Freeze Settlements?
Getty Images Settlements haven’t been in the news of late — and not simply because war pushed them off the media’s radar. They haven’t been in the news because since the kidnapping and murder of the three Israeli yeshiva students back in June, there hasn’t been much settlement news to report. True, already-approved settlement construction…
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Opinion A Blood Libel Against All Palestinians
The family of murdered Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir / Haaretz On July 1, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu eulogized the three Israeli yeshiva students murdered in the West Bank. “A deep and wide moral abyss separates us from our enemies,” he said. “They sanctify death while we sanctify life…” When 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir was…
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Culture The Provocative IDF Soldiers You Really Need To See
The Gaza Strip! IDF Girls Gone Wild! These are some of the nicknames for the recent scandal sparked by Facebook photos and video of semi-nude female IDF soldiers, striking poses and dancing on IDF bases and inside IDF facilities, in some cases carrying weapons and sporting (parts of) IDF uniforms. These stories seemed to be…
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Opinion A Balance of Interests
The Forward’s interview with Mousa Abu Marzook highlights some fundamental truths about peacemaking: You make peace with your enemies, not your friends; you make peace not to be nice, but because it is in your self-interest; real peace must reflect a balance of interests, not an imbalance of power, and security arrangements, not trust, will…
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Opinion Jerusalem Isn’t Just for Arabs, Either
I write this late on Sunday night in Doha, following the first day of the Arab League’s Conference on Jerusalem. I am attending the conference as an individual and a member of the foreign policy community — not as a representative of any organization (as is the case when I attend most conferences). That said,…
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Opinion One Solution: Two States
The steady march of settlements, the rightward shift in Israeli politics, the growing sense that a conflict-ending peace agreement is impossible — all these things are feeding some pundits’ impulse to declare the death of the two-state solution as a means of ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But what are the alternatives? Some support a “one-state”…
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