Leon Hadar in Foreign Affairs: The George W. Bush administration saw its foray into Iraq as a substitute for a diplomatic strategy to bring about Israeli-Palestinian peace. But the notion that the road to Jerusalem led through Baghdad — that…
Leon Hadar in Foreign Affairs: The George W. Bush administration saw its foray into Iraq as a substitute for a diplomatic strategy to bring about Israeli-Palestinian peace. But the notion that the road to Jerusalem led through Baghdad — that…
Last night I went to a Gaza fundraiser in New York City (hosted by Helen Schiff in the Village) and came away with the impression that the Gaza war has brought the Israel/Palestine issue deeply into progressive American political life…
On the eve of Nakba remembrance day, a young rabbi led an observance of the catastrophe “that cannot be denied, ignored, or wished away” in Union Square in New York last night before a largely-Jewish group. She said that four…
The Washington Post is reporting that a recent letter to Obama on the peace process (saying we’re on Israel’s side and Palestinians have to build institutions to allow a “viable” state), signed by congressional leaders Steny Hoyer and Eric Cantor,…
Further evidence of the deep political/spiritual crisis that Israel is in. Israel’s biggest newspaper did a poll showing that 58 percent of Israeli Jews are for the two state solution, but the populace is sharply divided; and the young are…
Sean Lee, who works in Beirut, compares Benny Morris’s views of Arabs being bad drivers to racist French “science” about Algerians. Then he quotes Morris: “[T]he notion of sharing power or being a minority in a non-Muslim Arab polity is…
Missed this one. A month ago, Mother Jones reported something I’ve always heard talk about, that Tom Friedman is married into one of the richest families in America, the shopping-mall Bucksbaums, whose company has taken a huge hit in the…