One of Dana Goldstein’s witty photos of the AIPAC policy conference
Marc Lynch spoke at the plenary session of the Soref Symposium, the annual spring conference of Washington Institute for Near East Policy on the future of public diplomacy and the “war of ideas” in the Obama administration. (God bless WINEP…
Marc Lynch spoke at the plenary session of the Soref Symposium, the annual spring conference of Washington Institute for Near East Policy on the future of public diplomacy and the “war of ideas” in the Obama administration. (God bless WINEP…
My wife and I went to a party last night. Cocktails–a foreign concept to me, growing up. It was called for 6 and as we drove we listened to All Things Considered. Robert Siegel was discussing political developments with David…
Omar Barghouti, a Tel Aviv University student who has called for academic boycott of Israeli schools, was the subject of a post on this site yesterday. I commended the TAU president’s refusal to expel Barghouti despite pressure to do so….
The JTA reports on an interesting new study measuring “the Israeli-Jewish Collective Memory of the Israeli-Arab/Palestinian Conflict,” and it has some surprising results. Perhaps the most important is that 47% of Israeli Jews believe that the Palestinian refugees were expelled…
AIPAC is stuck in a tough position. Among the news stories emanating from this week’s conference is the lobby’s acceptance, if not embrace, of the two-state solution. Several stories of the conference highlight that AIPAC attendees were asking their congresspeople…
Haaretz says that Obama doesn’t clear stuff with Israel before going public, and Israel is upset. Grow up, son. Newsweek says the same. Train wreck ahead. Obama isn’t taking Netanyahu’s cue on Iran or on the Palestinian state. Oh my,…
Haaretz says that Obama doesn’t clear stuff with Israel before going public, and Israel is upset. Grow up, son. Newsweek says the same. Train wreck ahead. Obama isn’t taking Netanyahu’s cue on Iran or on the Palestinian state. Oh my,…