Courting Syria
An interesting analysis by Simon Tisdall of the Guardian, discussing Obama’s options: If in four years’ time, military confrontation with Iran has been avoided, the Iraq withdrawal has been managed...
View Article[Place your favorite Palestinian group here] Will Never Be a Partner for Peace
Andrew Sullivan over at his blog on The Atlantic quotes a piece by Jeffrey Goldberg (of the same magazine) on why “Hamas will never be a partner for peace.” The details of Goldberg’s argument are...
View ArticleOpportunities in the Middle East
A detailed report by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker, on opportunities and dangers facing the Obama administration: American and foreign government officials, intelligence officers, diplomats, and...
View ArticleObama & Netanyahu – A Post-Mortem
Now that a few days have passed, I’m prepared to make a few comments about the Obama-Netanyahu meeting that took place earlier in the week. First and foremost, it is astonishing how little media...
View ArticleCalm Voice, Big Stick
Uri Avnery agrees with my assessment of the Obama-Netanyahu meeting: BARACK OBAMA is often compared to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but it is from the book of another Roosevelt that he has taken a leaf:...
View ArticleObama and the Settlements
There are many who believe (or are worried) that Obama will follow the path of some of his predecessors and talk in public about stopping the settlements (and by implication the settlers) but do...
View ArticleMore on Obama’s New Mideast Policies
The Sunday Times of London has this to say: Administration officials say privately that Obama has given himself two years for a diplomatic breakthough on a two-state solution for Israel and the...
View ArticleReactions to Obama’s Cairo Speech
Three reactions to the Obama speech by left-leaning Israeli journalists. More below. First up Uri Avnery with The Tone and the Music: From the very first word, every listener in the hall and in the...
View Article“A Game Changer”
Real News Network does a good job presenting the significance of the possible prisoner exchange:
View ArticleFeature: His Master’s Voice – Part I
When we moved to Israel in 1983, my first job was at Israel’s largest (at the time) software consultancy. One of my colleagues was a modern Orthodox (“dati”) man. I was far less to the “left” then, and...
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