Published on June 12th, 2009 | by Marsha B. Cohen
Guest Post by Marsha B. Cohen Two weeks ago, the head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s “Task Force on Isolating Iran” sent a classified telegram to all Israeli embassies and consulates titled “Activities in the Run-up ... Read More →
Published on June 9th, 2009 | by Daniel Luban
By Daniel Luban Readers in need of entertainment should really check out Center for Security Policy president Frank Gaffney‘s howler of an op-ed in the Washington Times today. While optimists may have thought that the “Obama ... Read More →
Published on June 4th, 2009 | by Daniel Luban
By Daniel Luban At Wednesday’s Heritage Foundation conference on the Middle East peace process (which, as I wrote yesterday, was primarily devoted to pushing the almost-universally-scorned “three-state solution” for Israel-Palestine), Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes ... Read More →
Published on June 1st, 2009 | by Jim Lobe
By Daniel Luban and Jim Lobe Last Friday, The New Republic‘s website published a remarkable but thus far little-noticed article by Michael Makovsky and Ed Morse. Makovsky is an alumnus of Doug Feith‘s Office of Special ... Read More →
Published on May 28th, 2009 | by Daniel Luban
By Daniel Luban I have no desire to bore the reader with endless discussion of the Amalek controversy, so I will just weigh in with one final comment on the controversy and Jeffrey Goldberg‘s response to ... Read More →
Published on May 27th, 2009 | by Daniel Luban
By Daniel Luban Since my original post on Netanyahu and Amalek, the Amalek analogy has become the subject of a fair amount of attention. Fareed Zakaria and Roger Cohen have both chimed in, arguing that Netanyahu’s ... Read More →
Published on May 20th, 2009 | by Daniel Luban
By Daniel Luban In March, former AIPAC chief lobbyist Douglas Bloomfield wrote a very interesting piece for the New Jersey Jewish News. In it, he revealed that although AIPAC publicly professed support for the Oslo peace ... Read More →
Published on May 17th, 2009 | by Daniel Luban
by Daniel Luban Jeffrey Goldberg‘s latest op-ed in the New York Times contains the following interesting passage: I recently asked one of his advisers to gauge for me the depth of Mr. Netanyahu’s anxiety about Iran. ... Read More →
Published on May 14th, 2009 | by Jim Lobe
Everyone knows that the Israelis are pressing hard for the Obama administration to set a a relatively short-term deadline for progress in its prospective diplomatic engagement with Iran to bear fruit, after which it would move ... Read More →
Published on May 6th, 2009 | by Daniel Luban
By Daniel Luban Reviewing this week’s AIPAC conference, The Weekly Standard‘s Michael Goldfarb writes: As President Obama’s meeting with new Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu approaches, there will be tremendous pressure on both leaders to demonstrate that ... Read More →
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