International Affairs
The Congressional Threat to Obama’s Iran Diplomacy
Unprecedented: two posts from me in one day! But this one is really important. A détente with Iran would be one of the Obama administration’s major foreign policy achievements—reducing the danger of war in the Middle East and opening up ...
Read MoreThe Deal with Iran
The Obama administration’s accord with Iran is an important accomplishment. Iran will freeze its enrichment of uranium and convert its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium into a form that is not susceptible to further enrichment. The significance of the pact ...
Read MoreFriedman on Shavit on Israel
I’ve never been a fan of Thomas Friedman’s. His breathless writings on globalization are way out of balance in their undercounting of the costs of unfettered capitalism. His support for George W. Bush’s war with Iraq rested on the incredibly ...
Read MorePalestine: Dueling Historic Narratives
Today’s New York Times reported on a recent study of Israeli and Palestinian Arab history textbooks. Most of the article is dedicated to Hamas’s latest textbooks, which clearly reflect that organization’s unwillingness to recognize the legitimacy of any Jewish presence—much ...
Read MoreA Yom Kippur Reading Recommendation
I said that my next post would continue my discussion of Syria, but in the mean time I’ve come across an article that seems a particularly appropriate if not mandatory recommendation on this day. It’s in the New York Review ...
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