Besides three contributions from the Podhoretz family, the latest Commentary includes a faintly-goosesteppish piece by Michael Oren, the new Israeli ambassador to the U.S., on the existential threats to Israel. It’s true I liked Oren’s appearance at AIPAC, but this…
More signs of change in the American Jewish community. A leader of the peace bloc in the pro-Israel community comes down on one of its former heroes, Shimon Peres, after Peres reportedly told Joe Biden that he wasn’t going to…
More signs of change in the American Jewish community. A leader of the peace bloc in the pro-Israel community comes down on one of its former heroes, Shimon Peres, after Peres reportedly told Joe Biden that he wasn’t going to…
Laura Rozen’s report at Foreign Policy on the Obama-Peres meeting suggests that there are stormclouds on the horizon–“severe nervousness” in Israel over Obama’s signals on Iran and settlements–and, more interesting, a shrewd deployment by Obama of Jewish White House aides…
Ron Kampeas at JTA has a report saying that AIPAC’s call for a “viable Palestinian state” probably had the blessing of Netanyahu, but has angered the Zionist Organization of America. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to maintain ambiguity…
One of the most interesting speeches given at the AIPAC Policy Conference was one that received the least media attention. AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr addressed the capacity crowd Sunday night before Newt Gingrich, and he came with a stern…
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…
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…