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☆ Opinion | Exploring the Failures in the Mideast
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Biden’s Moral Failure on Israel,” by Peter Beinart (Opinion guest essay, Oct. 11):There is much about Israel’s behavior toward Arabs to be condemned, but the horrors of Oct. 7, 2023, cannot be ignored. Israel had a right to retaliate, and the fact that Hamas refuses to stop fighting gives Israel the right to continue fighting. The nightmare of Gaza was started by Hamas and can be finished by Hamas. The nightmare of the West Bank is another story, and there is much blame to be placed on Israel. The politics of the United States is in the middle of this problem, and there is no easy way to deal with it.

Persons: ”, Peter Beinart, Israel, Kamala Harris Organizations: Israel, Hamas, West Bank Locations: Israel, Gaza, United States

44 health care workers saw multiple cases of preteen children who had been shot in the head or chest in Gaza. 2 did not Merril Tydings Flight, emergency and critical care nurse, 44 years old, Santa Fe, N.M. “ These people were starving. ” Abeerah Muhammad Emergency and critical care nurse, 33 years old, Dallas, Texas “ Everyone we met showed us pictures of themselves before October. ” Merril Tydings Flight, emergency and critical care nurse, 44 years old, Santa Fe, N.M. “ It is very simple. ” 53 health care workers saw many children suffering from easily preventable infections, some of whom died from them.

Persons: Gaza Daniel Benneworth, Gray, I’ve, ”, Mimi Syed, Khan Younis, “, ” Dr, Mohamad Rassoul Abu, bariatric, Nina Ng, Dr, Mark Perlmutter, Mount, Irfan Galaria, Khawaja Ikram, Israel, Ahlia Kattan, Ndal Farah Anesthesiologist, ” Asma Taha, Nahreen Ahmed, Aman Odeh, Mike Mallah, Deborah Weidner, Tanya Haj, Hassan, ’, Laura Swoboda, Feroze, couldn’t, Mohammed Al, Adam Hamawy, Talal Ali Khan Nephrologist, Arham Ali, Loma, Newborn, ” Monica Johnston Burn, ” Brenda Maldonado, Ayman Abdul, Ghani, Ammar Ghanem, Mohamad Abdelfattah, ventilators, ” Laura Swoboda, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s, Harris, ProPublica, Peter Beinart, Kamala Harris, Ms, it’s Organizations: Nurses, Gaza’s Ministry of Health, West Bank, Mark Perlmutter Orthopedic, “, United, Rights, Oxfam, United States, Israeli Defense Ministry, Committee, UNICEF, Gaza, Hamas, Biden, U.S Locations: Gaza, Ukraine, Haiti, Flint, Mich, Israel, Pittsburgh, Pa, New York City, N.Y, N.C, Chantilly, Va, “, Savannah, Ga, Dallas , Texas, Costa Mesa, Calif, Toledo , Ohio, Santa Fe, Portland, Philadelphia, Austin , Texas, Charleston, S.C, Hartford, Conn, Olympia, Wash, Mequon, Wis, Lathrop, Ohio, South Brunswick, N.J, Oklahoma City, Okla, Loma Linda, Vancouver, Honolulu, Hawaii, Detroit, Tustin, United States, U.S, Al, Lebanese

Peter Beinart andIn this interview with the Times Opinion editor Max Strasser, the journalist Peter Beinart explores what he calls the twin pillars of American Jewish life: Zionism and liberalism. Beinart argues that the two are fundamentally in conflict with each other, a longstanding tension that has become even more fraught since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated in Gaza. In this conversation, Beinart makes the case for liberalism over Zionism and calls on the American Jewish community to see that “Palestinian equality doesn’t need to be a threat to Jewish safety.”Below is a lightly edited transcript of the conversation. “The Opinions” is a collection of audio essays from Times Opinion. To listen to this piece, click the play button below.

Persons: Peter Beinart, Max Strasser, Beinart, Israel Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ Opinion | American Jews, Liberalism and Zionism
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “American Jews in the Age of Palestine,” by Peter Beinart (Opinion guest essay, March 24):There is a fundamental flaw in the article. Zionism does not require backing the Israeli government; it does assume backing for the State of Israel. It is a choice to support what many of us believe to be Jewish values, with the domination of the Palestinians being un-Jewish. Yes, there is a rupture between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Jewish diaspora, but that does not translate to a rupture with Israel, at least not yet. Since 1913, the ADL has hewed to a strictly nonpartisan strategy in calling out antisemitism — whether it emanates from the far left or the extreme right, or anywhere in between.

Persons: Peter Beinart, Benjamin Netanyahu, Steven Goldberg Brooklyn, ‘, ” Organizations: State, Defamation, “ Republicans, ADL Locations: Palestine, Israel

☆ Scientists discovered a field of deep-sea hot springs after following a trail of crabs like breadcrumbs on the ocean floor
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Scientists on an expedition near the Galápagos Islands followed a trail of crabs on the ocean floor. The crabs led them to a field of hydrothermal vents, or deep-sea hot springs. AdvertisementClusters of white crabs on the ocean floor helped lead scientists to a new discovery off the Galápagos Islands: a field of hydrothermal vents, or deep-sea hot springs, full of life. Schmidt Ocean InstituteA vent chimney discovered within a previously unknown hydrothermal vent field near the Galápagos Islands. A large cluster of riftia tube worms proved the researchers were unquestionably in a new hydrothermal vent field.

Persons: —, Dr, Roxanne Beinart, Hansel, Gretel, Ricardo Visaira Coronel, Dennisse Maldonado, INOCAR, Stuart Banks, Charles Darwin Organizations: Service, Schmidt Ocean Institute, Schmidt Ocean, University of Rhode Island, Ecuadorian, Charles, Charles Darwin Foundation Locations: Galapagos, Yellowstone

The slogan reflects the geography of that original claim: Israel spans the narrow stretch of land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Gaza’s health ministry, which is run by Hamas, says that more than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since. “It is an antisemitic charge denying the Jewish right to self-determination, including through the removal of Jews from their ancestral homeland,” according to the Anti-Defamation League. Does it preclude the fact that the Jewish population in the area between the sea and the river cannot also be free? Likud has since dropped the phrase, though the party has opposed a two-state solution in which Palestinians would have a recognized state alongside Israel.

Persons: ”, Maha Nassar, “, ‘, it’s, Tlaib, Israel —, Peter Beinart, Beinart, ” Ahmad Khalidi, Mr, Khalidi, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jordan Organizations: Palestinian Authority, West Bank, University of Arizona, Defamation, City University of New, Oxford University, Likud, Israel Locations: Israel, Jordan, Gaza, Palestine, ”, Palestinian, Oslo Accords, City University of New York

☆ Robert Brustein, Passionate Force in Nonprofit Theater, Dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Bruce Weber | More About Bruce Weber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Robert Brustein, an erudite and contentious advocate for profit-indifferent theater, in the service of which he wore many hats — critic, teacher, producer, director, playwright and even actor — died on Sunday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. His death was confirmed by his wife, Doreen Beinart. Mr. Brustein was dean of the drama school at Yale and founded and ran the Yale Repertory Theater and the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, producing well over 100 plays and securing them in the regional theater firmament. A prolific writer with the zeal of an environmentalist and the moral certainty of a martyr, he reviewed stage productions for The New Republic for more than 50 years. In many books and in countless newspaper and magazine articles, he argued for brave theater, intellectual theater, nonpandering theater, and worried that the art form was being attenuated by the profit motive.

Persons: Robert Brustein, —, Doreen Beinart, Brustein, New York — Organizations: Yale, Yale Repertory Theater, American, Theater, Harvard, The New, Public Locations: Cambridge, The New Republic, United States, ”, New York

Known as a passionate and provocative theater advocate who pushed for boundary-breaking works and for classics to be adventurously modernized, Brustein founded both the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard. He was dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1966-1979 and during that time founded the Yale Repertory Theatre. “They'll have an unresolved experience.”After a painful, highly publicized dismissal from Yale, Brustein in 1979 switched to Harvard, where he taught English and founded the American Repertory Theatre in 1980. At both Yale Rep and A.R.T., Brustein told The Boston Globe in 2012, he embraced popular theater with a nationalistic streak: “We were trying to liberate American theater from its British overseers. The light, absurd comedy, which gently mocks the lavishness of other musicals, premiered in 1994 at the American Repertory Theatre and was close to making it to Broadway.

Persons: — Robert Brustein, Brustein, Gideon Lester, Lester, Doreen Beinart, “, ”, Tony, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Cherry Jones, Sigourney Weaver, James Naughton, James Lapine, Tony Shalhoub, Linda Lavin, Adam Rapp, William Ivey Long, Steve Zahn, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, Peter Sellars, Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, August Wilson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, ” “ Chekhov, Ice, George Polk, Barack Obama, Daniel, Norma Brustein, it’s, ___ Mark Kennedy Organizations: Fisher, Bard University, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Harvard, New York Times, Tea Party, Suffolk University, Harvard University, The New, Fulbright, Cornell, Vassar, Yale School of Drama, Yale Rep, Broadway, Los Angeles Times, Yale, Institute, Advanced Theatre, Time, Boston Globe, “, Vineyard, Washington , D.C, Abington Theatre, Theatre, Globe, Journalism, American Academy of Arts and, Theatre Hall of Fame, Arts, White, Carr, for Human Rights, Kennedy School of Government Locations: Cambridge , Massachusetts, The New Republic, New York City, Amherst, Columbia, Brustein, American, Washington ,, New York, New, “, United States

☆ Opinion | The Jewish Left Is Trying to Hold Two Thoughts at Once
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

So far, more than 5,000 Palestinians are reported dead and many more injured. There’s no one way to cover this that reconciles all that is happening and all that needs to be felt. So I invited Spencer Ackerman and Peter Beinart on to the show. Peter Beinart is an editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, the author of the Beinart Notebook newsletter and a professor of journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Persons: Israel, There’s, Spencer Ackerman, Peter Beinart, “, Ezra Klein, Ackerman, Trump, Craig Newmark Organizations: Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google, The, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Times Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Opinion | Possible Paths to Israeli-Palestinian Peace
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “The Work of Moral Rebuilding Must Begin Now,” by Peter Beinart (Opinion guest essay, Oct. 15):Mr. Beinart expresses outrage at the savagery of Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians. At the same time, he outrageously proposes that what set the stage for the horrific displays of Hamas savagery was the failure of the international community over the years to support Palestinian nonviolent resistance, such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. This conveniently whitewashes the fact that many supporters of B.D.S. and other forms of Palestinian resistance reject Israel’s very legitimacy and recognition of the Jewish right to nationhood. What is needed now is a true commitment to nonviolence, one that speaks to viable peace, a recognition of Israel’s right to exist and ultimately two peoples living side by side with security.

Persons: Peter Beinart, Beinart, Israel —, Jonathan A, Greenblatt Organizations: Defamation League

☆ Republicans Agree on Foreign Policy — When It Comes to China - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Peter Beinart | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Understanding why Republicans prioritized China then helps explain why they’re prioritizing it now. Many of America’s most influential Asia Firsters — like the Time magazine publisher Henry Luce — were either the children of American missionaries in China or had served as missionaries there themselves. The John Birch Society, whose fervent and conspiratorial brand of anti-Communism foreshadowed the right-wing populism of today, took its name from an Army captain and former missionary killed by Chinese communists at the end of World War II. It boasts much of the world’s economic, political and military power, which is why the Biden administration focuses on the region, too. In March, a Gallup poll found that while Democrats were 23 points more likely to consider Russia a greater enemy than China, Republicans were a whopping 64 points more likely to say the reverse.

Persons: Robert Taft, “ Mr, H, Alexander Smith, Truman, William Knowland, Joyce Mao, Chiang Kai, shek, Asia Firsters, Henry Luce —, John Birch, Biden, Mao, fixate, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping Organizations: Republican, NATO, Foreign Policy, Armed Services Committee, Nationalist, Republicans, Communist, Time, John, John Birch Society, Army, Gallup Locations: Europe, Formosa, ”, Taiwan, China, Asia, United States, Pacific, Washington, Beijing, Russia

☆ Israel's Netanyahu in hospital after getting pacemaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin speaks to the media on March 16, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was fitted with a pacemaker on Sunday after experiencing a heart arrhythmia, and was under observation in the cardiac ward of a Tel Aviv-area hospital, his doctors said. Before the implant, a smiling Netanyahu recorded a video declaring: "I feel great, but I need to listen to my doctors." Washington has urged Netanyahu to seek broad agreements over any judicial reforms. In his video, Netanyahu suggested that last minute agreements could be reached.

Persons: Benjamin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Roy Beinart, Netanyahu, Beinart Organizations: Sheba Medical Locations: Berlin, Germany, Israeli, Tel Aviv, holidaying, Galilee, Jerusalem, United States, Washington, Israel, Yom Kippur

☆ Why Iran and Cuba Turned Their Back on the U.S. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Peter Beinart | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

One reason Cuba still needs Beijing’s money is that the Biden administration has kept key Trump sanctions in place. When the two countries signed the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran’s foreign minister at the time, Mohammad Javad Zarif, called it “not a ceiling but a solid foundation. We must now begin to build on it.” Iran’s leaders, like Cuba’s, hoped better relations with the United States would spur Western investment. Mr. Trump canceled the nuclear deal and reimposed harsh sanctions. This isn’t the first time the United States has driven smaller nations into the arms of its superpower adversaries.

Persons: Obama, Conan O’Brien, Andrew Cuomo, Steve Nash, Michael J, Bustamante, ’, Donald Trump, Evan Ellis, Biden, Mohammad Javad Zarif, ”, Zarif, Hassan Rouhani, Trump, ” Fredrik Logevall, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, Viet Minh Organizations: University of Miami, White, Wall Street, Cuban, U.S . Army, College, Trump, National Security, Strategic Services, Japan Locations: Cuban, Havana, University of Miami Cuba, Cuba, America, China, Iran, United States, Moscow, Russia, Ho Chi, France, Viet

☆ Opinion | Why Joe Biden Needs a Primary Challenger
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Peter Beinart | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

To understand why progressives should challenge Joe Biden in the upcoming Democratic presidential primary, remember what happened during the last one. Mr. Sanders’s supporters joined Mr. Biden’s allies in working groups that crafted a common agenda on the economy, education, health care, criminal justice, immigration and climate change. From those task forces came what Barack Obama called “the most progressive platform of any major-party nominee in history.” And that progressivism continued into Mr. Biden’s presidency. With rare exceptions, Mr. Biden hasn’t challenged the hawkish conventional wisdom that permeates Washington; he’s embodied it. America’s new cold war against Beijing may enjoy bipartisan support in Washington, but it doesn’t enjoy bipartisan support in the United States.

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