51 percent to 32 percent, according to post-Gaza poll apparently done for Israeli TV network.
That quote’s the headline in Haaretz today, the word from a leader of the rightwing National Union party, which is negotiating with Likud/Netanyahu to form a government. This is the one issue I have with the good people at Support…
The great perceiver Jim Lobe says that Elliott Abrams has now declared himself to be the official spokesman for Netanyahu in the U.S., at the Weekly Standard and the CFR. The piece on which Lobe makes this judgment, at the…
A few weeks back CBS’s “60 Minutes” ran a groundbreaking piece by Robert Simon showing that settlements had destroyed the two-state solution. One thing the piece left out is that American extremists have played a crucial role in that destruction…
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,…
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…
A couple weeks back I noted that both NY Times correspondents in the Jerusalem bureau are married to Israelis. And one of the spouses, Hirsch Goodman, has been engaged in what appears to be lobbying for the two-state solution. Years…
Daphna Baram has a great article on the Guardian website today – “It’s time to rethink Zionism.” Similar to the recent LA Times editorial questioning Israeli democracy, Baram starts out by stating the obvious: The results of last week’s parliamentary…