Posted in Alan Dowty, Israel, Palestinians, United Nations, Walter Reich on Nov 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
From Alan Dowty As the Goldstone report on the Gaza war wends it way up the UN food chain, casting further opprobrium on Israel at each level, it is legitimate to question Israel’s handling of this challenge. Did the Israeli response lessen or aggravate the damage? There are serious critiques that could have been levied […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Alan Dowty, Israel, Palestinians, Robert O. Freedman, Robert Satloff, Walter Reich on Aug 27th, 2009 4 Comments »
From Robert O. Freedman In his June 2009 Bar-Ilan University speech, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asserted that Palestinian recognition of Israel as a “Jewish state” was one of Israel’s requirements for agreeing to the establishment of a Palestinian state. Both Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat,immediately rejected the requirement. However, […]
Posted in Culture, Iran, Josef Joffe, Walter Laqueur, Walter Reich on Mar 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
From Josef Joffe . [kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/rGsHUfl9xEE ” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] . It was high time that anti-Semitism would find something hipper than those dusty Protocols of the Elders of Zion, concocted sometime between 1895 and 1902 by Russian journalist Matvei Golovinski and then used by the pro-Tsarists to discredit reforms in Russia as a […]
Posted in Qaeda, Terrorism, Walter Reich on Dec 15th, 2008 Comments Off on Death wish of Al Qaeda
From Walter Reich What’s the meaning of the offer last week by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantánamo detainees to plead guilty to the charge that they coordinated the attacks of 9/11 that murdered nearly 3,000 Americans? That meaning is revealed by the fact that they withdrew their offer as soon as they learned […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Alan Dowty, Diplomacy, Israel, Josef Joffe, Mark N. Katz, Palestinians, Raymond Tanter, Robert O. Freedman, Robert Satloff, Syria, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Walter Reich on Nov 20th, 2008 Comments Off on A Middle East envoy?
From MESH Admin Over the past week, MESHNet, the closed-forum companion to MESH, conducted a poll of MESHNet members, asking them who would make the best Middle East envoy of the Obama administration (if it is decided to appoint one). The structure of the poll emulated an earlier poll administered to a panel of Israeli […]
Posted in Culture, Israel, Walter Reich on Aug 15th, 2008 Comments Off on The 2,000-year shakedown
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 […]
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 […]
Posts+Comments
Posts+Comments
Posts+Comments
Posts+Comments