A Tale Of Two Israel Lobbies
One says: Instead of insulting the U.S. vice president, let’s take a deep breath and rededicate ourselves to the core issue of coming up with provisional borders for a Palestinian state — which, after...
View ArticleWell, Sure, No Preconditions
I’ll be at AIPAC’s conference on Monday to cover Secretary Clinton’s address, but I noticed something on the conference roster that reminded me of a point that may not have broken through the debate...
View ArticleIf You Want Me, You Can Find Me In The A(IPAC)
For the first time since I’ve been in Washington, I’ve wanted to cover a speech made at the AIPAC annual conference. These are the first considered remarks made by the Obama administration and the...
View ArticleClinton At AIPAC
Covered her speech here, here, here and here. Caught up with J Street for a response here. I don’t honestly know what I expected, as I wrote this morning. She had a deft moment where she reversed the...
View ArticleContexty
Interested in a longer, more analytical take on Secretary Clinton’s AIPAC speech? Funny, I figured you might. While you check this out, I’ll be checking out Tzipi Livni’s speech, as Livni has a clear...
View ArticleNot In Front Of, Uh… The Other Jews
As I type, Chuck Schumer is talking to the AIPAC conference. He recounted a story about how in the 1980s, he and his wife hosted a dinner party featuring Benjamin Netanyahu, then the Israeli ambassador...
View ArticleTzipi vs. Bibi
Maybe this will clarify my earlier point about Tzipi Livni. She’s a right-of-center Israeli politician who speaks about peace as the fulfillment of a Zionist dream and the maintenance of a democratic...
View Article‘He Is Young Man, Very Strong Man’
I guess it was during some boring moment in September 2008 in COP Zormat when I was chilling with the interpreters ahead of riding along with the Hooligans that I asked one of them what he thought of...
View ArticleA Realist Analysis Of the U.S.-Israel Relationship
Via Andrew Sullivan, check out this bit of Stratfor analysis. I generally like its approach of looking beyond personalities and toward structural relationships to explain given sets of behavior,...
View ArticleScrew-Up Nation: More on Netanyahu & Illiberal Israel
My much-alluded-to essay in the National meditating on the flotilla raid, Netanyahu’s coalition, Israel’s illiberal bent, American evangelicals, and Dan Senor’s Start-Up Nation — a long essay that...
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