Posted in Culture, Israel, Walter Reich on Aug 15th, 2008 No Comments »
From Walter Reich
That Israel’s leadership can’t figure out what to do when faced with the challenge of ransoming kidnapped Jews is excusable. That much of that leadership seems to be ignorant of the fact that Jews have given two thousand years of thought to exactly that problem, however, isn’t.
A few weeks ago, in exchange for [...]
Posted in Culture, Egypt, Israel, Josef Joffe, Walter Reich on Aug 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
From Josef Joffe
Of course, antisemitism cannot be amusing. How could it be? This darkest of creeds has spawned million-fold death, not to speak of its less murderous forms like discrimination, persecution and expulsion.
But here is a rare instance that might bring at least a bittersweet smile to your face. Then, further below, we’ll get serious [...]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Assaf Moghadam, Bernard Lewis, Books, Daniel Byman, J. Scott Carpenter, Josef Joffe, Mark T. Clark, Martin Kramer, Michael Horowitz, Michael Reynolds, Michael Young, Philip Carl Salzman, Raymond Ibrahim, Robert Satloff, Steven A. Cook, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Walter Laqueur, Walter Reich on Jul 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
With August fast approaching, MESH has asked its members to recommend a book for summer reading. (For more information on a book, or to place an order with Amazon through the MESH bookstore, click on the book title or cover.)
Posted in Geopolitics, Malik Mufti, Martin Kramer, Michael Young, Terminology, Walter Reich on Jun 12th, 2008 8 Comments »
From Martin Kramer
Last September, when I arrived in Cambridge for my fall stay at Harvard, I opened the Boston Globe and saw this headline over an editorial: “The Other Middle East Conflict.” I immediately said to myself: well, I know what the Middle East conflict is—that’s the Israelis and the Palestinians. So what is [...]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Barry Rubin, David Schenker, Harvey Sicherman, Israel, Jordan, Palestinians, Walter Reich on Jun 4th, 2008 4 Comments »
In late April, MESH hosted a discussion of the “Jordanian option.” In today’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman, writing from Ramallah, offers his own version of it (see below, left). MESH member Adam Garfinkle reviews the earlier MESH thread, and adds his own insights. Comments are offered by MESH members Barry Rubin, Walter Reich, David [...]
Posted in Barry Rubin, Culture, Islamism, Walter Laqueur, Walter Reich on Jan 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Walter Laqueur
Detail from Eugène Delacroix, The Fanatics of Tangier, 1837-38.
It is not “the West against the rest.” Throughout human history, civilizations have coexisted and competed, and there is no good reason to assume that this will change in the foreseeable future. True, there is still considerable resistance to accepting such obvious facts as, for [...]
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