Advertisements Having worked on the issue of Israel and its myriad conflicts for many years, one gets used to tragedy and even to stunningly abhorrent behavior. And indeed, I have seen more than enough of both from all sides in this conflict. But every once in a while, things takeContinue Reading

Advertisements A version of this article appeared in Zeek Magazine. Peter Beinart’s essay in the New York Review of Books about the demise of liberal Zionism has caused quite a stir. But I don’t really want to add to all the commentary surrounding it. Instead, I found interesting one smallContinue Reading

Advertisements This article was printed in Zeek Magazine. I am not a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. For a number of years, I had direct contact with many of the international peace and solidarity groups that make it up. There’s a lot of diversity in thoseContinue Reading

Advertisements (A version of this piece appears in Zeek Magazine) Now, here’s a sequence of events. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu states that Israel would not be bullied into peace. The implication, that peace is something the Netanyahu government is, at best, not enthused about, was lost on most ofContinue Reading