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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

Robert Satloff

File - El Shafee Elsheikh, one of the Islamic State Beatles,' speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria March 30, 2018. (Hussein Malla/AP)
April 14, 2022, 10:40 pm
Islamic State ‘Beatle’ convicted by US for beheading hostages
British national El Shafee Elsheikh found guilty of belonging to group known for cruelty to captives, including 4 Americans who were killed
By Matthew Barakat
Mohammed al-Issa, the secretary-general of the Muslim World League, speaking on April 25, 2018 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. (Screenshot: American Sephardi Federation)
January 22, 2020, 6:06 pm
Senior Saudi religious leader set for ‘groundbreaking’ visit to Auschwitz Thurs.
Saudi prince’s ally Mohammed al-Issa, other Muslim religious leaders and AJC officials also slated to tour a Jewish museum and a mosque in Warsaw, share a Shabbat meal
By Adam Rasgon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) welcomes US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to his residence in Jerusalem on March 21, 2019. (Jim Young/Pool/AFP)
April 16, 2019, 8:44 am
As US appears to back West Bank annexations, is its peace plan dead on arrival?
Analysts say Pompeo’s support for PM’s vow to apply sovereignty to all settlements contradicts declared US goal of brokering a deal; some expect Trump to shelve plan indefinitely
By Raphael Ahren
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham, right, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman visit the border between Israel and Syria at the Golan Heights, Monday, March 11, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)
March 22, 2019, 3:41 am
By recognizing Golan, Trump seen ‘solving’ a problem that doesn’t exist
The status quo on the plateau, in which Israel’s control was neither recognized nor challenged, will likely be upended by president’s move, and not in Israel’s favor, experts warn
By Raphael Ahren
Muslim World League Secretary General, Mohammad Al-Issa speaks on April 6, 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)
April 28, 2018, 11:43 pm
Conference of Presidents honors Muslims who protected Jews during Holocaust
Speakers at New York event included the secretary general of Saudi-based Muslim World League and co-founder of Morocco Muslim student movement
By ToI Staff
Then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference at the Verizon Center, on Monday, March 21, 2016, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP)
January 18, 2017, 8:58 am
As Trump looks to move embassy, a Mideast expert puts out a plan of action
Washington Institute’s Robert Satloff writes policy memo on how to relocate the embassy without setting off an international crisis
By Eric Cortellessa
Fred Schwartz, a New York Jewish philanthropist and businessman, in a 1986 television ad. (YouTube screenshot)
August 11, 2016, 9:39 am
Fred ‘the Furrier’ Schwartz, restorer of Auschwitz synagogue, dies at 83
Donor to numerous Jewish causes, who made his fortune by opening up a once-exclusive industry, passes away in NY
By JTA
Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki al-Faisal and Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's former national security adviser, share a platform at the Washington Institute, May 5, 2016. (Washington Institute screenshot)
May 6, 2016, 7:44 am
In rare joint appearance, Saudi prince, ex-Netanyahu adviser spar over peace
Al-Faisal says Netanyahu doesn’t support two-state solution; Amidor says Abbas doesn’t want to negotiate; the two differ less on the dangers of Iran and Syria
By Eric Cortellessa
Khaled Abdul Wahab is credited with rescuing Jews, but is not considered a Righteous Among the Nations. Why? (public domain)
April 15, 2015, 6:07 am
Why hasn’t Yad Vashem honored more Arabs for saving Jews?
The search for lost ‘righteous’ Muslims who put themselves in mortal danger for Jews continues as the Arab world increasingly educates itself about the Holocaust
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
US Secretary of State John Kerry stands with Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri during a press conference in Cairo, Friday, July 25, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Pool)
August 8, 2014, 4:00 pm
Why is the US on the sidelines as Cairo talks collapse?
As the ceasefire fails, Washington maintains an unusually low profile while Egypt reemerges as a regional powerhouse
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
May 2, 2013, 12:10 pm
Fred Lafer, longtime Jewish leader, dies
Past chairman of Washington Institute and of executive committee of Shalom Hartman Institute
Max Kampelman (photo credit CC-BY, Michael Pressman/CTBTO, Flickr)
January 31, 2013, 3:35 am
Jewish groups mourn passing of Max Kampelman
Senior US human rights negotiator, who played key role in the struggle to free Soviet Jewry, dies at age 92
Mark Donig
December 26, 2012, 10:55 pm
Mark Donig
The unilateral disengagement of the American titans of peace
Exhausted, resigned, disillusioned, two-staters are pivoting away from the Middle East
US President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland last month (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
December 7, 2012, 9:11 am
If all else fails, US will hit Iran in 2013, say former top advisers to Obama and Bush
At Washington Institute gala, Dennis Ross, Elliott Abrams and outgoing US ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey insist the president will strike next year if diplomacy doesn’t succeed
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Dead bodies following the assault on Houla, Syria, in May (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network. AP cannot independently verify this photo)
June 19, 2012, 12:33 pm
Ending the ‘unacceptable’ and ‘unspeakable’ in Syria
If, as Obama put it, ‘awareness without action changes nothing,’ what is to be done? And will Obama and the US take the lead in acting upon our responsibility to save the innocent?
By Irwin Cotler
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