Myself I was impressed by Obama’s offering himself to the Muslim world as a leader, the supple use of the Koran and of Islamic teaching, the embrace of his own Muslim background, and the willingness to dive into women’s freedom….
I’m in Cairo, about to walk across town to see my president address the Muslim world. I know there’s a lot of cynicism and hopelessness about this speech. Not here. I think my president knows exactly what’s going on. Mr….
What would you do if you got this email? you’ve really got to read what Jeffrey Goldberg just said to a Jewish television audience. Something is breaking, cracking, tearing. I have never experienced anything like this moment! Pretty exciting, huh?…
Important piece in Foreign Policy on the desecularization of Israel. In 1960, Palestinian Arabs and Orthodox Jews made up a combined 15 percent of the country’s primary students. Today the number is 46 percent and by 202o it will be…
As if the Israeli settler movement couldn’t alienate themselves any further from US popular opinion, they are now kicking off a campaign against “the most anti-Semitic American president” Barack Obama. The Ha’aretz article reporting on the effort shares some pretty…
By Max Blumenthal The Israeli government has repeatedly announced plans to forge ahead with plans to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank in direct opposition to President Barack Obama’s demand for an absolute settlement freeze. On May 27, Secretary…
On Monday George Mitchell met with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in New York to continue the ongoing US-Israeli discussion on settlements. Ha’aretz reported on an interesting moment from the meeting in their article “Obama: U.S. will be ‘honest’ with…
Roger Cohen weighs in on Obama’s speech in Cairo: Obama is speaking on a significant date. June 4 is the day before the outbreak of the 1967 war that led to the 42-year occupation of the West Bank. U.N. Resolution…