At the end of the AIPAC policy conference, maybe during Joe Biden’s pandering speech, I sat biting into a napkin trying to keep from crying with a joyful sense of purpose that the conference had given me. This post is…
Steve Walt gives a scholarly/realist answer to that important question here, and points out that Israel will not do so now because it would lessen the pressure on Iran to abandon its hopes of becoming a nuclear power. But one…
Steve Walt gives a scholarly/realist answer to that important question here, and points out that Israel will not do so now because it would lessen the pressure on Iran to abandon its hopes of becoming a nuclear power. But one…
Gideon Levy thinks so: Peres also hasn’t forgotten the shopworn, hollow old slogans about Israel’s yearning for peace, slogans for which one might still find dubious buyers only occasionally in America. Israel yearns for “peace with all peoples, with all…
Deal Hudson, a leader of a political organization of Catholics, calls on Pope Benedict to amend his message on Middle East peace, to reject Israel “extremism,” like the settlement program. (Note that InsideCatholic, Hudson’s website, has Christopher Scalia as its…
Everyone is talking about Roger Cohen’s interchange with Marty Peretz that Peretz, being a good journalist, has posted. The exchange includes Cohen’s affectionate reminder to Peretz that Peretz once explored hiring Cohen to be his editor, and also Cohen’s reflections…
The following was written by Rae Abileah, a young American Jew of Israeli and Dutch descent. Abileah was one of the members of CODEPINK who disrupted Israeli President Shimon Peres’s speech during the AIPAC Policy Conference (she is third from…
During his speech to the the AIPAC Policy Conference, Joe Biden told a story about meeting Golda Meir as a young senator in 1973. He said that he was worried about Israel’s future at that time, but Meir comforted him…
Ira Glunts has been watching Israeli TV, which is suggesting that the Obama administration is going to be very realist indeed: On Sunday night, the main Israeli news broadcast (Mabat, Sunday May 3) stated that according to very high level…