Egypt’s proposal for a Gaza truce won’t make Israel happy, but it’s primarily a trap for Hamas, ironically because it offers the people of Gaza so much of what they need. Continue Reading
Advertisements In the past, people have speculated about what Israel and the Occupied Territories would look like if the United States stopped trying to broker the mythical kind of solution that the Oslo process envisioned. Well, now we have an example. The most radically right-wing government in Israel’s brief history was simplyContinue Reading
Advertisements The vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the Palestinian application for non-member status is a foregone conclusion. They’re going to win and it’s not really going to matter much, at least in the short term. Nonetheless, the decidedly warped world of diplomacy around the Israel-Palestine conflict has managed toContinue Reading
Advertisements In my latest piece in Zeek Magazine, I take to task activists who take actions blindly without a sound political strategy. While I use as my foil left-wing, pro-Palestinian activists, it’s true for so many involved on all sides of the issue.Continue Reading
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