by Willie Trieger. Cross-posted from the Daily Pennsylvanian’s Red and Blue blog On Tuesday, Oct. 18, Israeli Defense soldier Gilad Shalit was released by Hamas after more than five years of captivity. Israel received Shalit in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners. On the surface, this looks like a terrible strategic move by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. These released Palestinians include [...]
Israeli-Palestinian relations have always been erratic, at the very least. Trying to resolve them is like defusing a bomb: in the end, this may prevent it from detonating, but all the while a hundred other units of dynamite are going off, one by one. In other words, there is no one central way of resolving Israeli-Palestinian tensions, no one bomb [...]
On Friday in the city of Ramallah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas spoke before reporters. “We need to have full membership at the U.N.,” he began, the reporters taking it in. “We need a state, a seat at the United Nations.” While it was not necessarily misguided for President Abbas to try to apply for U.N. membership, his way of going [...]
En route to a mid morning brunch at Metropolitan Bakery, I passed a group of people dancing in matching red outfits with picket signs. Although I was too far away to hear what they were singing, I knew the tune very distinctively – Lady Gaga’s “Telephone.” As I got closer, the lyrics went something like “Stop fighting stop fighting we [...]
Yuli Edelstein is Israel’s Minister of Information & Diaspora, member of the Knesset, and former Minister of Immigrant Absorption. Minister Edel- stein is a leading member of the Likud Party, and has served in the Knesset since 1996. The Penn Political Review had the opportunity to sit down with Minister Edelstein at the Lubavitch House at Penn.
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