Obama and the Will of the People; Soviet-Era Anti-Zionism; America’s Old-New Middle East Blueprint; the Yazidis and Oct. 7

‘Flirting in Yiddish’: the winner of our personal essay contest [View this email in your browser]( August 4, 2024 • Tammuz 29, 5784 [THE WEEKENDER](#) # [The Ottoman American Empire]( The Obama-Biden blueprint after Gaza [BY TONY BADRAN](#) # [Zombie Anti-Zionism]( The left’s addiction to warmed-over Soviet anti-Zionist propaganda from half a century ago proves that its criticism of Israel has nothing to do with facts on the ground in Gaza [BY IZABELLA TABAROVSKY](#) [He the People]( How Barack Obama ended normalcy in American politics [BY LEE SMITH](#) [The Sabaya]( How the advocates of Palestine erased the sexual enslavement of the Yazidis in order to deny the rape of Jewish women [BY Y](#)ANIV VOLLER # [Flirting in Yiddish]( In the winning entry from our First Personal essay contest, a woman finds romance in the language of a lost world [BY KITTY HOFFMAN](#) OUR FINALISTS, IN PRINT [DOWNLOAD A PRINTER-FRIENDLY EDITION OF ALL FIVE FINALISTS’ ESSAYS FROM TABLET’S ‘FIRST PERSONAL’ CONTEST]( # # This email was sent to you by [Tablet Magazine](#) Tablet Magazine | P.O. Box 20079 | New York, NY 10001 [Remove me from this list]( | [Forward to a Friend]( You are receiving this email because you signed up at our website, www.tabletmag.com. Tablet Magazine P.O. Box 20079 New York, NY 10001 USA Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp [Mailchimp Email Marketing](