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;…
Further evidence of the deep political/spiritual crisis that Israel is in. Israel’s biggest newspaper did a poll showing that 58 percent of Israeli Jews are for the two state solution, but the populace is sharply divided; and the young are…
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…
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…
Scott McConnell reports from Washington: It’s belatedly dawning on me that next week’s Obama-Netanyahu meeting will be the kick-off for a Super Bowl of Super Bowls of diplomatic maneuvering, as two nominal allies seek to mobilize elements in the other’s…
Scott McConnell reports from Washington: It’s belatedly dawning on me that next week’s Obama-Netanyahu meeting will be the kick-off for a Super Bowl of Super Bowls of diplomatic maneuvering, as two nominal allies seek to mobilize elements in the other’s…
Report by Robert Dreyfuss in the Nation, on an appearance at Washington Institute for Near East Policy last week of Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, who is training Palestinian troops in the West Bank and who said that two-state solution is…
when it refers to places that are actually in East Jerusalem as being in Israel: the Dome of the Rock. Howard Schneider in the Washington Post a few days ago also did something similar. He said, Nazareth, the largest Arab…