One of the rewards of the AIPAC policy conference was the ability to watch liberal hawk Ken Pollack up close for an hour. Pollack is a key figure in our policy mess in the Middle East. A smart, goodlooking liberal…
Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu, (apparently born and raised in the U.S., his brother and father former mayors of Miami Beach), commenting at AIPAC on Netanyahu’s constituency: The victory in Israel, by the way–you may not know…
Great piece by BBC News on Natan Brun, a legal historian in Israel who is the son of Akiva Brun, a member of the Stern Gang who was arrested and charged in 1947 for plotting terror in London. Reporter Tim…
Can academia be bought by ideological lobbyists? What about prestige academia? Here is a stunning piece in the Yale Globalist (passed along by the tireless Bob Feldman) about a study on mathematical models for counter-terrorism strategy that has been undertaken…
Two pro-Israel speakers at the AIPAC policy conference said yesterday that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the bete noir of the lobby, is also a boon to the lobby; for if the Iranian President is not reelected next month, AIPAC’s case against Iranian…
Two pro-Israel speakers at the AIPAC policy conference said yesterday that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the bete noir of the lobby, is also a boon to the lobby; for if the Iranian President is not reelected next month, AIPAC’s case against Iranian…
Bruce Wolman writes: Speakers at the AIPAC policy conference regularly said that some Arab nations are on the same page with Israel in considering the Iranian nuclear program the biggest threat to regional stability, but the Egyptian Foreign Ministry articulated…
The vice president said a few words about freezing settlement expansion and granting greater freedom of movement to Palestinians as a means of demonstrating Israel’s commitment to Palestinian statehood. “Show me,” he challenged Israel. And he got applause. Not a…
When he called for a two-state solution now, when he came down on settlement expansion, there was just a smattering of applause for John Kerry at AIPAC today. Settlements “empower the enemies of peace in the region,” Kerry said. And…