Ira Glunts writes: The belligerent tone and content of the speech serves to remind us how difficult it is going to be to push Netanyahu to make the concessions necessary for a just peace. The perceptive and knowledgable Helena Cobban…
Ira Glunts writes: Back in February, in this space, I criticized Americans for Peace Now (APN) for initiating an email campaign profusely praising the “courageous statements” on the settlements made by Rep. Gary Ackerman during a House Foreign Affairs Committee…
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…
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…
Ira Glunts writes: Eric Lynn joins the list of Jewish-Americans with a special attachment to Israel who are currently serving in the Obama administration in positions in which their Israel connections appear to present a serious conflict of interest. Ben…
Ira Glunts reports: This weekend the Israeli daily, Ma’ariv, published an interview in Hebrew with Professor Ben Zion Netanyahu, the 99-year-old father of the new Israeli prime minister. The elder Netanyahu is known for his outspokenness and extreme right-wing views–and…
Ira Glunts, who used to live in Israel and now lives in upstate New York, has been tracking the Israeli response to the Arab cultural festival. Read his account and weep. It is about profound disrespect for the other. The…
Ira Glunts sent along an open letter he wrote to Lara Friedman, Director of Policy and Government Relations of Americans for Peace Now. Glunts wrote the letter in response to that group’s “action alert” praising the pro-Israel Rep. Gary Ackerman….
This time a boat carrying 60 tons of humanitarian supplies to Gaza was captured and brought into Ashdod. There are reports of beatings on board. And of course, the U.S. countenances all this. Obama?