Advertisements Tom Friedman is back, at least for a minute. He stirred up a bit of a fuss last week when he wrote that the US was beginning a “reassessment” of its relationship with Israel due to the current government’s excesses. Well, it wasn’t necessarily so, but the fact thatContinue Reading
Advertisements In a recent op-ed in Ha’aretz, former Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas wrote, “It is not the U.S.’ responsibility, moral duty, or place to alter the authoritarian trajectory of Israel. But it is equally negligent of the Americans to act as if nothing is happening.” But it very much isContinue Reading
Advertisements ReThinking Foreign Policy is one of 89 organizations that issued a joint statement in support of Rep. Ilhan Omar and condemning the party line House vote to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC). For some background on what has been a relentless attack on Rep. OmarContinue Reading
Advertisements With the headlines currently abuzz about popping balloons, it’s worth looking at what the Biden administration means when it talks about diplomacy. It was on display this week in Israel and the West Bank, and it was just as ugly, racist, and counter-productive as we’ve come to expect fromContinue Reading
Advertisements Secretary of State Antony Blinken was the keynote speaker at last week’s J Street conference. In what was undoubtedly the low point of the entire event, Blinken not only got a standing ovation as he walked on stage, he received another, albeit a less enthusiastic one, after he deliveredContinue Reading
