The Six Day War was my disaster * Hamas is winning online * My daughter the combat vet * I know Apartheid – this isn’t it * Rebuilding Gaza * Go d bless this government

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, June 10, 2021 From the blogs [For an Egyptian teenager like me in 1967, an Israeli victory was inconceivable]( By [Kamal Abdel-Malek]( [In an excerpt from his ​memoir, a professor of Arabic literature describes the horror at learning his country had lost the Six Day War and the shockwaves that followed the defeat]( [Ariel Beery]( [God bless this government]( [This prime minister will need to play ’quarterback,’ harnessing his colleagues’ strengths to work together to respond to the needs of a diverse electorate]( [Alan Abrams]( [Living on the fault line of the world]( [Lapid’s coalition offers a vision of how to navigate the same polarization plaguing the US and elsewhere, where the right thrives on demonizing its opponents]( [Alon Tal]( [This is how my favorite combat veteran served her country]( [My daughter had qualms about serving in the West Bank – but she also helped uncover information about an imminent terrorist attack. I salute her.]( [Naomi Chazan]( [Think Israel’s current transition is unique? Think again.]( [Rivals uniting to oust an incumbent? Been there. Rotation leadership? Done that. The many parallels abroad can light a path to better and stable governance]( [Julio Messer]( [Lapid’s clueless claim that Netanyahu can’t work with Biden]( [The likely alternate PM and foreign minister has a thing or two to learn about what relations between country leaders are all about]( [Nitsana Darshan-Leitner]( [Hamas is winning… online]( [The globally designated terror group has mastered the manipulation of the press, convincing the world to ignore both its bloody history and its violent present]( From the blogs [Yes to term limits — an emphatic no to the demand that Netanyahu ‘cool off’]( By [Yuval Yoaz]( [New Hope’s proposal that would deny the PM the right to stand for office for the next four years is a step too far, a step away from fundamental democratic rights]( [Glenn Yago and James Prince]( [Pushing past Groundhog Day in Gaza]( [Opinion: Forget trying to reanimate the moribund peace process and instead, start by improving life in Gaza with help from government-supported investors and businesses]( [Manley Perkel]( [What Apartheid is – and what it isn’t]( [Likening Israel to one of the evilest systems of domination in the world insults S. African blacks who suffered under its yoke and all who died to overthrow it]( [Eden Yegezaw]( [An Ethiopian-only town: Segregation or cultural preservation?]( [The plan is a recipe for ghettoizing a community that sees itself as part of Israeli society and needs real solutions to its complex problems]( [Avram Mlotek]( [How a ‘wokestorm’ is misleading a generation about Israel]( [If the ’woke community’ really sought to awaken, it would realize that Jew-hatred is the oldest of hatreds. Apparently, Jewish blood is still cheap]( [Martin Polack]( [The catastrophe of American Jewry and your role in redemption]( [It’s official: The Orthodox are growing in strength and numbers while the rest are on the wane. But self-satisfaction is the worst possible response]( [Jessica Kirzane]( [Yiddish writers have what to teach us about the Tulsa massacre and beyond]( [These early 20th century thinkers knew from pogroms and many, though not all, wrote about anti-Black racism from a position of solidarity and justice]( [Steve North]( [Lin-Manuel Miranda and my German-Jewish grandma both made ‘The Heights’ what it is]( [The community of immigrants the film depicts have different languages and songs and foods than my family did, but it’s all very familiar, just the same]( [Is Zionism guilty of zoological extermination?]( By [Natan Slifkin]( [Claims that Jewish pre-state settlers eradicated wildlife are unfair and untrue – conserving the environment has practically been a religious priority in Israel]( Top Ops [Avi Liberman]( [What I’m learning about almost dying]( [Some facial paralysis, 32 staples in my skull, and overwhelming concern from loved ones have given all kinds of new meaning to ’the show must go on’]( [Yedidia Z. Stern]( [American Jews, how ‘Jewish’ are you?]( [Jewish pride has replaced the humiliated Jew of history, but where Israelis are entrenched in the trappings of Jewish identity, American Jews must choose]( [William Echikson]( [Europe’s unequal treatment of its Jewish denominations]( [Letting governments pick and choose which Jews they like and dislike affects not only Progressive Jews, it impacts the future of all European Jewry]( [Mark Wilf]( [Israelis need to know US Jews stand with them – that’s why we went there]( [As the first group of senior US Jewish leaders to visit Israel post-COVID, we saw the extensive missile damage as well as the Israelis’ indomitable spirit]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved