Advertisements Believe it or not, outside of Capitol Hill, America’s $3 billion per year of military aid to Israel actually gets discussed. On the left, the discussion of aid to Israel is one of several major dividing lines over what are seen as “acceptable” peace groups (J Street, Americans forContinue Reading
Advertisements (Note: This was cross-posted at Meretz USA’s blog.) In an interview given to Newsweek, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman made the following, quite chilling statement: “I am the mainstream. When I started with my vision, I was really a small minority. Today we’re the third [largest] party in Israel.”Continue Reading
Advertisements Now that the United States has officially abandoned its attempt to convince Israel to stop building settlements for just a little while, please?, everyone is waiting for Plan B. Those who still hope for a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict are hoping that the Plan B willContinue Reading
Advertisements In my latest piece at the Meretz USA blog, I look at some of the interpretations out there of the mid-term elections and offer my own view of them.Continue Reading
Advertisements A while back, I wrote about “Giving up on Obama.” A natural corollary to that declaration is, as my friend, Rabbi Brant Rosen inquired, “what then”? Before I answer that, I wanted to clear up a misapprehension some took from my piece. I have, indeed, lost faith in Obama’sContinue Reading
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