Advertisements In my latest piece for Babylon Times, hosted by Souciant, I examine the hysteria in Jerusalem and Washington over next week’s vote, the precise nature of which we still don’t know, on the status of Palestine at the UN.Continue Reading
Advertisements In my latest piece for Babylon Times, hosted by Souciant, I look at the firing of columnist Larry Derfner of the Jerusalem Post, what he did wrong and how it drowned out some very important and insightful points that he made. UPDATE: Derfner was not permitted to publish hisContinue 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
Advertisements This piece was originally published at LobeLog The anticipated meeting of the Middle East Quartet (the United States, Russian Federation, United Nations and European Union) took place Monday. The result was what has become pretty standard for Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy and peacemaking: nothing. The Quartet is incapable of doing anythingContinue Reading
Advertisements The Senate passed a resolution last week threatening repercussions if the Palestinians press on with their bid for statehood. A similar House of Representatives resolution passed this week. The two bills, very likely drafted by AIPAC, cite a number of statements by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton to support a very strongContinue Reading
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