On The Attack on the Israeli Embassy in Cairo
Last week, as the Israeli government was building a giant wall surrounding the Israeli embassy in Cairo, I opined that the wall should not be seen as a necessity because of anti-Semitism or a rejection of Israel, but rather as a reflection of the reality Israel has created for itself. Killing nine Turkish (and American) … Read more
Are Palestinians Ready for Statehood?
With the September UN vote quickly approaching, there has been an abundance of articles written about what the vote means, what comes next, what the legal consequences would be and about every other possible tangent – including a series by Chris; spoiler, he thinks it is a political ploy. Without getting to far into the … Read more
Alternatives to a UN Vote?
Richard Silverstein has written a delicious rant in response to the latest American effort to dissuade the Palestinian Authority from seeking UNGA recognition in September. The newest American proposal is to…wait for it…open up a new set of negotiations with Israel. For those not paying attention, this is ridiculous because the UN bid is … Read more
Could Qaddafi Have Freed Shalit?
Asharq Alawsat is reporting that deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had offered to secure the release of captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit and to sign an official peace treaty with Israel in exchange for an end to the NATO airstrikes. Qaddafi had apparently contacted Druze politician Ayoob Kara and presented his offer before being forced … Read more
Walt Sounds Off on US Congress
Upon hearing that 20% of the US Congress would be spending their summer recess in Israel on a trip paid for by the American Israel Education Foundation despite the ridiculous economic crisis at home, Stephen Walt lets loose on the “Greatest Elected Body That Money Can Buy”: Just when you think your contempt for Congress … Read more
The Israeli Lobby in France
In his new book, Roland Dumas – the Foreign Minister of France from 1984 to 1986 and again from 1988 to 1993 under President François Mitterrand – reveals the level of influence Israel has in France. The book is entitled “Assault: 50 Years of Shared Secrets with François Mitterrand” [“Coups et Blessures: 50 ans de secrets … Read more
Eric Cantor Loves the Tel Aviv Disco Scene
Michael Collins Dunn, Andrew Sullivan and Mondoweiss all have posts up about the fact that 19% of the House of Representatives will be taking time off from off from that minor economic crisis facing the US to spend time in Israel during the summer recess period. Interesting. Dunn: Since it’s August and nothing is going … Read more
Correcting Palestinian Myths, or Voldemort in Jerusalem
Daniel Levy has a post up on Foreign Policy that would be funny if it was not so depressing. Levy describes the American effort to pull some wool over the eyes of the rest of the Middle East Quartet (the EU, UN and Russia) concerning the Palestinian effort to win a UNGA resolution in … Read more
Killing Off a Dead Oslo
Akiva Eldar recently wrote a piece in the Israeli daily Haaretz, in which Eldar pushes for the end of the Oslo Accords and all of the false hope that comes with them. The Oslo Accords were signed in 1993 (Oslo 2 was signed in 1995) and a permanent final status agreement was to be agreed upon … Read more
Rebuttal of Yonaton Touval’s Haaretz Article
As any reader of this blog knows I like to spend my time reading lots of articles that I disagree with. I will not go into the reasons why. Every now and again I get it in my head that I should create a blog piece about an article and let people see the inaccuracies … Read more
