Democracy Means Equality – 2013
My old editor and long-time friend, Joel Schalit, sent this piece around today. It was published on May 18, 2013, and, despite a few things that went off in different directions and some that were...
View ArticleAOC ignites a debate about Yitzhak Rabin
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems to set off a firestorm every time she goes near the issue of Israel-Palestine. It happened again last week. AOC had agreed to speak at an event hosted by Americans for...
View ArticleAOC, Yitzhak Rabin and the Silencing of Palestinians
In the latest episode of the ReThinking Foreign Policy podcast, I cover Donald Trump’s positive coronavirus test, the budding war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, and understating the true impact of...
View ArticleTrump’s and Republicans’ Plans For Election Loss, More on AOC and Rabin
In the latest ReThinking Foreign Policy podcast, I look at the potential responses of both Donald Trump and Republican leaders to an electoral loss. They’re not the same. I also revisit the AOC-Yitzhak...
View ArticleNetanyahu and the long shadow of an Israeli demagogue
While the ever crafty Benjamin Netanyahu can never be counted out until he’s really out, it is looking more and more like his long-time reign over Israel is about to end. Considering that Netanyahu is...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s legacy: Allying with US hawks and fomenting division in Washington
Netanyahu is out and very little will change as a result. Israel’s apartheid policies, inside and outside its internationally recognized borders, will continue. Creeping annexation will continue....
View ArticleAIPAC’s insurrectionists for Israel
AIPAC has received intense criticism for the decision of its new political action committee to endorse 37 Republicans who tried to prevent the certification of the presidential election of 2020. In my...
View ArticleThe question of violence
After years of the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority making it clear to the Palestinian people that diplomacy will not secure the realization of Palestinian rights–especially given...
View ArticleIsrael’s new radical leadership wastes no time provoking anger
The Abraham Accords represent a shameful deal for trade and military alliances between an apartheid state, Israel, and some of the most brutal autocracies in the world, like the UAE and Bahrain. The...
View ArticleWe didn’t need hindsight to see Oslo as a failure
30 years ago today, Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands in front of Bill Clinton on the White House lawn. Imaginations got fired up about a post-Cold War world that even saw peace in the Middle...
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