Felson on the Arab minority in Israel getting dealt out of the electoral process: It occurs to me that we’re approaching a critical moment, with the patience and frustration of Israeli Arabs expiring (and with many of their fellow Israelis…
Ray Close, a former CIA analyst, wrote the following letter to a foreign-policy list maintained by a Princeton scholar yesterday. Close gave me permission to publish [emphases mine]: For a large number of sophisticated Israelis, particularly those who feel the…
BF writes: “It seems like the most obvious thing about the Arab parties that you didn’t mention is the double irony of the ADL’s statement on the diversity of the electorate. Livni’s party was one of those that voted to…
The ADL seems to think it will be a Livni government: The national elections in Israel demonstrate that, at a time of war and stress, the vibrant democracy of the State of Israel has prevailed. We congratulate Tzipi Livni and…
MJ Rosenberg is saying in the LA Times and at Israel Policy Forum that the Israel lobby here doesn’t want a rightwing Israel. They want to be able to market Israel in the U.S. It’s hard to market a government…
Tzipi Livni and Benjamin Netanyahu have wasted no time to begin begging Avigdor Lieberman and Yisrael Beiteinu to join a possible Israeli government under their control. Yisrael Beiteinu finished third in yesterday’s election (see this great election results tool on…
The Times did this piece last week on the mysterious recision of Gen. Anthony Zinni’s presumptive appointment to be Ambassador to Iraq. No substantive theory is offered by the Times of why Zinni, a great man, was denied this opportunity….
F.E. Felson writes: For the past year, I’ve dreaded the inevitable election of a Netanyahu-led government, which, despite Kadima’s tiny plurality, it looks like we’re going to get. But the more I think about it, Bibi returning as P.M. might…
The very smart Zionist Bernard Avishai is also predicting a Netanyahu government that thumbs its nose at Obama and gets out firehoses on the Israeli Arabs. Avishai offers two other scenarios, including a Livni government with Arab parties’ backing –…