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…
Everyone is talking about Roger Cohen’s interchange with Marty Peretz that Peretz, being a good journalist, has posted. The exchange includes Cohen’s affectionate reminder to Peretz that Peretz once explored hiring Cohen to be his editor, and also Cohen’s reflections…
The following was written by Rae Abileah, a young American Jew of Israeli and Dutch descent. Abileah was one of the members of CODEPINK who disrupted Israeli President Shimon Peres’s speech during the AIPAC Policy Conference (she is third from…
During his speech to the the AIPAC Policy Conference, Joe Biden told a story about meeting Golda Meir as a young senator in 1973. He said that he was worried about Israel’s future at that time, but Meir comforted him…
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…
Last night I did a post on a Yale case demonstrating the influence of pro-Israel money in academia. Here’s a related situation. Roger Cohen of the IHT makes the following important point in a letter to Marty Peretz on the…
At AIPAC, I was struck by the fact that senior Netanyahu adviser Ron Dermer seemed so American. And he’s from Miami, with a tough-guy swagger. I also saw Michael Oren, the next Israeli ambassador to the U.S., who I have…
At AIPAC, I was struck by the fact that senior Netanyahu adviser Ron Dermer seemed so American. And he’s from Miami, with a tough-guy swagger. I also saw Michael Oren, the next Israeli ambassador to the U.S., who I have…