Advertisements Published today at Responsible Statecraft is my review of Prof Jerome Slater’s new book, Mythologies Without End: The U.S., Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020. Slater goes through a huge list of myths that make up so much of the mass understanding of the conflict over Palestine and Israel. JustContinue Reading

Advertisements There’s a lot of talk out there about the death of the Sykes-Picot agreement in the Mideast. There may be a lot of truth in that, but in any case, it does not mean the US and the West in general has no responsibility to help fix the messContinue Reading

Advertisements My latest piece for Babylon Times is up at Souciant. In it, I examine a YouTube video put out in July by Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. The video generated a good deal of controversy, but it seemed to me it was so silly that no one took the timeContinue Reading