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Published:Wednesday | November 19, 2025 | 4:41 AMShlomo Ben-Ami for Project Syndicate

TEL AVIV: US President Donald Trump is probably not even aware of John Maynard Keynes’s 1919 book The Economic Consequences of the Peace, which cautioned that the harsh demands imposed on Germany after World War I – with their “...

Published:Wednesday | October 15, 2025 | 7:12 AMShlomo Ben-Ami for Project Syndicate

TEL AVIV – October 7, 2023, is a date that will forever haunt Israel. The events of that day were grisly: Hamas carried out a vile attack on Israel, killing some 1,200 Israelis and taking another 251 hostage. But Hamas’s attack soon led...

Published:Wednesday | April 23, 2025 | 8:08 AMShlomo Ben-Ami for Project Syndicate

TEL AVIV :US President Donald Trump is not known for respecting science and history. From promoting unproven treatments for COVID-19 to insisting that any discussion of shameful elements of America’s past is “divisive,” he...

Published:Wednesday | December 18, 2024 | 9:59 AMShlomo Ben-Ami for Project Syndicate

TEL AVIV :The swift collapse, after 54 years, of Syria’s al-Assad dynasty has just transformed the Middle East’s geopolitical landscape. The lightning offensive by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militia took all of Syria’...

Published:Wednesday | May 19, 2021 | 12:44 AMShlomo Ben-Ami for Project Syndicate

TEL AVIV – The sudden eruption of war outside and inside Israel’s borders has shocked a complacent nation. Throughout Binyamin Netanyahu’s 12-year premiership, the Palestinian problem was buried and forgotten. The recent...

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