Yes I just violated my anti-ethnocentric Yiddish policy in that headline. Apologies to everyone. Rosten: rigmarole. Akiva Eldar in Haaretz says that Obama will be basing his Israel/Palestine policy on the report by the 10 realist luminaries who say that…
The second day of the One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens? conference had a much more ominous tone than Day 1. It focused on the long road to building a one state solution – from the…
Phil posted an interesting interview with non-Zionist Israeli MK Dov Khenin from the Hadash Party while I was attending the One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens? conference in Boston. He makes two different comments about the…
Day one at the “One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens?” conference is over and here are some early thoughts: One of the most striking things about the conference is simply the audience and energy. The energy…
I’m charged that Adam is in Boston for the One State conference, but wanted to throw him a fastball while he’s there. I was reading this last night on the couch: the latest New Voices, which contains a fine interview…
By way of a friend, A Cursory View of Benny Morris’s forthcoming book, One State, Two States Morris argues against both a two-state and a one-state solution, and in favor (though he thinks it a remote possibility) of an Arab…
Yesterday there were two posts on the recent report “A Last Chance For A Two-State Israel-Palestine Agreement: A Bipartisan Statement on U.S. Middle East Peacemaking”(pdf). Both Roger Cohen and Andrew Sullivan made reference to it, and it is reportedly on…
Marty Peretz is embracing Netanyahu, saying he wants peace without “illusions.” Oh, and George Mitchell is “silly.” So spake the lobby. How interesting that TNR contributor Michael Walzer, who to his great credit has called for heavy pressure on Israel…
Last night President Obama admitted that it wasn’t going to be easy to work with the new Israeli government. Today they showed why. Ha’aretz is reporting the Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman have cut a “secret deal” to build 3,000…