John Mearsheimer has been right again and again about political trends vis-a-vis the lobby. His grim logic in the latest American Conservative: –No American president has been able to buck the lobby– viz, the unending settlements, which every president opposed;…
Leon Hadar in Foreign Affairs: The George W. Bush administration saw its foray into Iraq as a substitute for a diplomatic strategy to bring about Israeli-Palestinian peace. But the notion that the road to Jerusalem led through Baghdad — that…
Leon Hadar in Foreign Affairs: The George W. Bush administration saw its foray into Iraq as a substitute for a diplomatic strategy to bring about Israeli-Palestinian peace. But the notion that the road to Jerusalem led through Baghdad — that…
Today Palestinians across the Middle East, including inside Israel, commemorated al Nakba. Arabic for “the catastrophe”, al Nakba refers to the ongoing displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people that began in 1948 with the founding of the state of…
Amid hasbara letters, and a Holocaust reminder from Seymour Reich, the Times finds room today for a progressive-Christian realist, Andy Whitmore of Kansas City, who largely agrees with the Times editorial of yesterday that said Netanyahu’s statements re Palestinian state…
The tension surrounding next week’s Obama/Netanyahu meeting continues to rise. Today, Ha’aretz is reporting that Obama couldn’t even wait until next week to tell Israel not to attack Iran. The Israeli press seems to be on the edge of its…
High noon, they’re calling it. The Israel Policy Forum is taking its stand a week before Netanyahu gets here, and trying to give Obama cover in the Jewish community to call for bold action toward a two-state solution because the…
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…
Jerome Slater writes: A few weeks ago Richard Silverstein queried a number of people, including me, on what we knew about future Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren. Bernard Avishai wrote that he sort of liked him, he was…