Advertisements The Israel-Palestine conflict is rich with many things, but nothing is so widespread in it as useless aphorisms. One of the most destructive of these is the oft-repeated mantra that “only direct negotiations between the two parties will resolve this conflict.” It was explicitly repeated today by leading IsraeliContinue Reading
Advertisements Remember the date. November 22, 2010, the day Israel finally killed the two-state solution. I know that for me, I will continue to hope that there is some way to still pull two states out of a hat. That’s my heart talking, because both in heart and mind, IContinue 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
Advertisements Israeli Blogger Yaacov Lozowick sent a challenge over Twitter on Sunday to my arguments about Israel’s demand for recognition, not merely of its sovereignty, but as a Jewish state. He states: “the problem with your article, Mitchell, is that the facts are all backwards. Will you retract?” In anContinue Reading
Advertisements In my recent piece on the Israeli demand to be recognized “as a Jewish state,” I made the point that there is no clear definition of what it means t be a Jewish state. There is no consensus in Israel as to what this means; indeed, this has beenContinue Reading
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