Making Bibi Sing
2010-04-23
Advertisements In my latest piece for Zeek Magazine, I explore the question of temporary borders for a Palestinian state, and the Obama Administration’s determination to make a peace process work.Continue Reading
Principled Opposition
2010-04-16
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
Forcing Peace
2010-04-09
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
The Crisis of Jewish Democracy
2010-04-02
Advertisements In my latest piece in Zeek, I look at the new clarity of so-called “pro-Israel” voices which are not actually pro-Israel but rather anti-peace. These voices are taken to represent Israelis and American Jews and in fact are not at all representative of either group, but stand for viewsContinue Reading
At War With America
2010-03-26
The only thing the Netanyahu government knows how to do is make enemies. It might just destroy Israel’s alliance with the United States.Continue Reading