Daniel Pipes tempers his usual fevers– “How deep runs Obama’s antipathy toward the Jewish state?” he asks, in a column that paints the Democratic left as “anti-Zionist” (I wish)– with an awakening or two: Democrats cooled[toward Israel] in the post-Cold…
As I mentioned the other day, David Rose in Vanity Fair has a good piece saying that neocons in high U.S. government positions prevented American overtures to the Sunni insurgents in 2004, nearly three years before such connections helped end…
Wait till progressive Democrats feast on him in the 2010 primary. Who wants this guy? The newly-minted Democratic Senator is speaking at a conference on “radical Islam” organized by the Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes’s group, which has continually stereotyped…
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…
David Rose is reporting in Vanity Fair that back in 2004, nearly 3 years before the U.S. included Sunnis in efforts to end the insurgency in Iraq, Sunnis reached out to the Americans and were rebuffed. Rose says it was…
Jack Ross responds to Robert Kaplan’s suggestion that Iraq was Nazi Germany, and so we could not appease it. When considering the idea that Israel will be “the new Czechoslovakia”, we must remember that Czechoslovakia, like Israel, was a state…
Robert D. Kaplan at Foreign Policy: And thus began the rehabilitation of realism, and with it another intellectual cycle. “Realist” is now a mark of respect, “neocon” a term of derision. The Vietnam analogy has vanquished that of Munich. Thomas…
Nick Goldberg has a great piece in the LA Times on the William I. Robinson case at UC Santa Barbara that basically/secretly comes down on Robinson’s side, his right to pass around an email comparing Israeli human rights abuses with…