Taghreed El-Khodary, reporting at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza One of the highlights of my trip to Gaza was meeting Taghreed El-Khodary, the correspondent for the New York Times. She had breakfast with my New York-based…
Last Saturday, John Mearsheimer spoke to the Islamic Association of Greater Detroit. Mearsheimer tends to be pessimistic, but at the end of his speech he urged Muslims to work with enlightened Jews to put pressure on Israel and bring abut…
A few days ago, I left Gaza with Medea Benjamin (above, as we came through the Sinai) and four other members of her Code Pink delegations. I wasn’t really able to write about Gaza while I was there. We had…
On Monday George Mitchell met with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in New York to continue the ongoing US-Israeli discussion on settlements. Ha’aretz reported on an interesting moment from the meeting in their article “Obama: U.S. will be ‘honest’ with…
One takeaway message from the Obama-Abbas meeting is that the realists are getting heard in the Obama administration. Much has been made of Hillary Clinton’s recent hardball approach with Israel regarding settlements. On Wednesday she told reporters that the administration…
Fred Jerome begins his new book, Einstein on Israel and Zionism, with a great quote from Albert Einstein to a close friend, “Though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me. I am a revolutionary.” Jerome’s…
Al Jazeera recently produced this interesting report on Palestinians trying to move into Israeli settlements in Jerusalem: It’s interesting that Israel’s massive restrictions over Palestinians in Jerusalem is forcing them to find the loophole, which in this case is moving…
The Obama administration is putting Israeli settlements front and center and Israeli politicians are doing their best to spin the issue. Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely has held her conference opposing the two-state solution where Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon argued…
Sunday’s New York Times Book Review featured two reviews of Israeli authors, both commenting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In one, Jeffery Goldberg reviewed Benny Morris’s latest book on the one state and two state solutions, and the other was a…