“Minorities are the biggest problem in the world.” – Avigdor Lieberman in a 2006 interview with The Sunday Telegraph. Also, from the article “Jews and Arabs can never live together, says Israel’s vice PM”: “We established Israel as a Jewish…
I’ve been very interested lately in how Avigdor Lieberman’s success in the recent Israeli elections is changing how Americans view and understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Richard Cohen’s column in today’s Washington Post is another sign Lieberman is helping people cut…
Is there an Israel lobby or not? The New York Jewish Week ought to be ashamed of itself for this piece attempting to discipline new Senator Kirsten Gillibrand for her mild comments re Israel that it regards as verboten. Gillibrand…
Yes, a picture says a thousand words. But here are a few more from the Jerusalem Post article “Lieberman auditioning for Foreign Affairs portfolio”: “The senator requested the meeting, because he wanted to better understand the Israel Beiteinu leader’s views….
I write my stuff so hurriedly these days that I seem to miss everything. I would just like to note that in the excerpt I offered yesterday from Bernard Avishai, Avishai points out that a Palestinian scientist who participated in…
The far right ascendancy in Israel continues to reverberate here. It not only threatens the US-Israel relationship, and create tensions between American and Israeli Jews, it is also reshaping the intellectual terrain: how the conflict is being discussed. For instance,…
At left is a picture of Malcolm Hoenlein (holding the mike), one of the stalwarts of the Israel lobby as head of the Conference of Presidents, making nice to Avigdor Lieberman 2 years back. And that’s no surprise. American Jewish…
Bernard Avishai has been doing great work recently. Here he contemplates the true tragic import of the likely new government, and hints at the inevitable liberal response to it (one state, baby). Notice Avishai’s generosity: Israelis pride themselves on technological…
You knew it was coming. The concerted push to put a smiley face on the incoming far right Israeli government has begun on the front page of The New York Times. Ethan Bronner begins his story “Netanyahu, Once Hawkish, Now…