Advertisements A section of the Israeli right wing has now graduated from their unabashed opposition to advocating a one-state solution. This is not a passing affectation, I think, but a strategic choice that is gaining support, with good reason. The right-wing idea is built on the fatal flaw that progressiveContinue Reading
Advertisements A video from 2001 is making the internet rounds these days, one that shows current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talking to a settler widow who had just lost her husband to a Palestinian attack at the beginning of the second intifada. In the video, Bibi says (in Hebrew,Continue Reading
Advertisements The spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister’s office held a webcast today. Mark Regev, who is expert at talking with the media and is specifically geared toward English-speaking audiences, spent half an hour answering questions that had been submitted through Facebook. If Israel is smart, they’ll have Regev doContinue Reading
Advertisements DC theater at its best. That’s what we had today as the much-anticipated photo-op meeting between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took place. Both parties got what they wanted. Obama had a warm press conference with Bibi, sending the message that American-Israeli relations areContinue Reading
Advertisements Once again, there is discussion of military action against Iran, since virtually everyone acknowledges that the new sanctions, both by the UN and US will not change the status quo. I examine the possibilities of an attack on Iran in a new piece I published at Zeek Magazine.Continue Reading
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