Changing Course: Mahmoud Abbas At The UNGA
2014-09-27
Abbas’ combative speech at the UNGA may have started the Palestinians on a new strategic course.Continue Reading
Little Support in Washington for Kerry’s Mideast Efforts
2013-05-25
Advertisements While Secretary of State John Kerry was in Israel declaring his aim to “exhaust all the possibilities of peace” to try to stop wasting the Obama Administration’s time and energy on the futile effort to find a resolution to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, Congress was illustrating once again whyContinue Reading
Democracy Means Equality
2013-05-20
Advertisements A fundamental plank of any peace plan has to be universal rights and full equality for all, and that is true whether the solution is one state, two states, twelve states or no states in Israel-Palestine. I elaborate at Souciant.Continue Reading
Lessons for Obama
2013-02-08
Advertisements In this week’s piece at Souciant, I look at the lessons Bill Clinton’s mistakes at Camp David II hold for Barack Obama today. Many of the conditions have changed, of course, but Clinton’s mis-steps, as well as what he did right, hold general lessons that Obama must keep in mind ifContinue Reading