Advertisements Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East is coming to an end. The main theme is going to be the herculean effort by Biden’s administration to paint a picture the media can latch on to of some kind of win coming out of the trip. There wasn’t one. ButContinue Reading
Advertisements No one is as good at being consistently wrong as New York Times columnist Tom Friedman. If you want a read on the world, particularly the Middle East and ESPECIALLY Israel and Palestine that bears no resemblance to reality whatsoever, he’s your guy. This week Friedman really outdid himself.Continue Reading
Advertisements Here we go again, folks. Israelis are going back to the polls. It’s actually amazing that the cobbled together Bennett-Lapid coalition gave them this long a break. In my latest piece for Medium, I break down what’s just happened, with a few observations, and answer some questions that mightContinue Reading
Advertisements Israeli Prime Minister lost his parliamentary majority last week. Not a lot changes in the short term as a result, as this government went from being able to do very little because of the opposing ideologies of various parts of the governing coalition to being completely paralyzed by notContinue Reading
Advertisements In my latest piece for Responsible Statecraft, I look at Israel’s reluctance to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. I look at its excuses for doing so and find they don’t stack up at all. In the end, Israel is making a cold calculation: although they have exponentially moreContinue Reading
