Bruce Wolman writes: President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority came to Washington yesterday to meet President Obama. As a warm-up for his big event at the White House, he sat down for an interview with the two editors of…
Bruce Wolman writes: A few weeks back, Efraim Inbar, an advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu (and also director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies) was rather optimistic when he spoke to New York Times reporter Isabel Kershner about relations between…
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…
Bruce Wolman writes: Last week I asked the question, “Who is the bigger obtstacle to peace, Netanyahu or Ahmadinejad?” Aluf Benn of Ha’aretz goes a long way towards answering the question this morning: “Is Netanyahu bringing Israel closer to a…
Bruce Wolman writes: According to Haaretz, Obama wants aid to go to the Palestinian Authority even with Hamas in the government. Republican Representative Mark Steven Kirk told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a House hearing last week that the…
Bruce Wolman writes: According to Haaretz, Obama wants aid to go to the Palestinian Authority even with Hamas in the government. Republican Representative Mark Steven Kirk told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a House hearing last week that the…
Bruce Wolman writes: President Obama gave the keynote address Thursday at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony at the US Capitol. The theme for this year’s ceremony was “Never Again: What You Do Matters.” Peterr over at Firedoglake remarked “it was actually…
From Bruce Wolman: Those of us wanting to prevent a looming military conflict with Iran are scratching our heads today, wondering who is the biggest obstacle to peace we face, Binyamin Netanyahu or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The only Head of State…
Typically, because I saw so much wisdom in it, I pushed Bruce Wolman to publish the short note he sent me yesterday, It’s gotten a lot of comment, as you can see. Wolman is a more considered writer than I…