Leon Hadar clarifies his position for me, which I seem to have misrepresented somewhat: I’m all for Obama getting involved and trying to impose a solution. In 1992 I published a article in Foreign Policy magazine, America And Israel: Reforming…
Joel Brinkley, a former New York Times reporter now teaching at Stanford, is given space in the San Francisco Chronicle to attack UN special rapporteur, Richard Falk, lately-expelled from Israel, as a nutter because he has given credence to 9/11…
I’ve missed the Madoff story. Because of my own issues, my assimilation and intermarriage and fears that angry Jews are about to tie me to a menorah and run me out of town, I’ve keyed into the ethnocentric aspects of…
The truce is expired, Hamas is making belligerent noises toward Israel, fearful of invasion. “There is an increasing likelihood of Israel invading Gaza before Obama’s comes into office irrespective of whether Hamas decides to extend the truce, if Israel’s past…
New poll. 66 percent of Palestinians favor the Arab peace proposal, calling for a withdrawal to the 1967 border. But only 36 percent of Israelis support it. And only 40 percent of Israelis are for dividing Jerusalem. Even fewer Palestinians:…
Leon Hadar disagrees with me, and Brent Scowcroft, and Samir Sumaida’ie, and says that Obama can continue to basically ignore Israel/Palestine, until such time as strong leadership emerges over there that could bring about a local resolution, rather than an…
Jack Ross: The point I was trying to make in large part was that Lincoln was never a sincere abolitionist, he campaigned explicitly on simply limiting slavery to the territories and on a Constitutional amendment that would have enshrined slavery…
Liberal internationalists are now doing their utmost to distance themselves from Bush, but Wilsonian liberal internationalism is what got us into Iraq; and Hillary Clinton is the “paladin” of these liberals. That is realist Mike Desch’s argument in the latest…
Two reader/friends have attacked me for being in the Lincoln cult. I’d take both of them on now but for two things: 1, I don’t know much about Lincoln, and 2, I am interested chiefly in Lincoln’s intellectual/political progress as…