Advertisements One of my New Year’s resolutions will be to get back to maintaining a regular schedule on the Cutting Through newsletter. Due to some other commitments, that won’t happen to start the year, but I hope it will at some point in 2023. But I am closing out 2022Continue Reading
Advertisements Ever since it became clear that Benjamin Netanyahu was likely to return as Israel’s prime minister and that he would be bringing in a government that, even for Israel, was radically right wing, Joe Biden and Antony Blinken have consistently been saying that they will react to the government’sContinue 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
Advertisements Israelis came to the World Cup in Qatar expecting to find a new atmosphere of friendliness and warmth among Arab fans. Instead, they found that a handful of dictators in the UAE and Bahrain could not change the hearts and minds of the people of not only Qatar, butContinue Reading
Advertisements Earlier this week, I sat down with J.G. Michael of the Parallax Views Podcast for a wide-ranging interview that covered the recent Israeli elections, the US decision to open an investigation into Israel’s killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the fight against antisemitism, AIPAC’s electoral activities and much more. YouContinue Reading
