The Myth of a Better Deal By Stephen M. Walt, August 10, 2015 Foreign policy is serious business, because getting it wrong has real consequences. When countries conduct foreign policy in a cavalier or incompetent way, real human beings lose their lives or end up much poorer than they would otherwise have been. In …
Category: The Middle East
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Aug 06 2015
Detailed, orderly and articulate
Obama Isolates Netanyahu as Head of Warmongers By Barak Ravid, Aug 06, 2015 12:34 AM WASHINGTON – Some 200 people gathered at a plaza named for Saudi King Salman at American University in Washington on Wednesday and waited for U.S. President Barack Obama’s address on the nuclear deal reached last month with Iran. A …
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Aug 05 2015
Olei HaGardom
The Problem With Netanyahu’s Response to Jewish Terror By J.J. Goldberg, August 4, 2015 When you leave Jerusalem’s Western Wall plaza through the Dung Gate out of the Old City, your gaze turns naturally southward toward another hill glimmering in the distance, across the Valley of Hinnom. Christian tradition calls it the Hill of …
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Jul 17 2015
Funny things
Dear editor, This is a letter about funny things. A random collection perhaps, but some readers may discern a veritable fountain of flummery, deep and wide, that flows through them all. Funny thing about that young bigot slaughtering all those people away yonder in a Charleston church just a few weeks ago. Suddenly there’s a …
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Jun 23 2015
Every reason to resist
In Israel, we walk amongst killers and torturers By Amira Hass, Jun. 22, 2015 12:48 AM In our homes, our streets and our places of work and entertainment, there are thousands of people who killed and tortured thousands of other people or supervised their killing and torture. I write “thousands” as a substitute for the vaguer …
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May 17 2015
Birthright
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Apr 24 2015
Denial is fraught with peril
Armenian genocide: To continue to deny the truth of this mass human cruelty is close to a criminal lie By Robert Fisk, Monday 20 April 2015 At seven o’clock on Thursday evening, a group of very brave men and women will gather in Taksim Square, in the centre of Istanbul, to stage an unprecedented …
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