False Messiah Syndrome: Netanyahu as Bar Kokhba
Netanyahu has put Israel on a course of self-destruction, and it is heading there fast. Israelis can change course, but it would require a radical change in policy, especially in allowing FULL human,...
View ArticleGroundbreaking ‘NYT’ Op-Ed lays bare the Democrats’ internal battle over Israel
As Hillary Clinton and Sarah Hurwitz blame the rising support for Palestine within the Democratic Party on social media, former Obama staffer Ben Rhodes makes clear why Democrats are turning on Israel...
View ArticleThe Limits of the Israel Lobby
In a presidential election where policy toward Israel is arguably more important than it has ever been before, we are seeing a clear demonstration of the limits of the influence of the pro-Israel...
View ArticleCutting Through: Wrestling With Biden
As promised, the Cutting Through Newsletter has moved to a more frequent publishing schedule. It will be 1-2 issues per week. Please support the work and pledge to become a monthly donor at the site....
View ArticleWhy the White House Backs Bibi: Biden and the Sukkot War, Part II
In the conclusion of this piece for The Battleground, I get into the reasons why Joe Biden has risked the 2024 election, his personal legacy, and the stability of the entire Middle East in order to...
View ArticleHow Democrats learned to defend Israel’s ethnocracy
For a very long time, the United States worked diligently to stay away from the tense debate over Israel’s ability to be both a Jewish and democratic state. Even as Palestinians cried out about their...
View ArticleThe Palestinian Authority’s pivot to China shows it has finally given up on...
Mahmoud Abbas completed a trip to China last week, just before Antony Blinken came in. Abbas’ visit showed that the PA is finally recognizing the futility of looking to the U.S. for support in...
View ArticleCutting Through: Two Short Essays To End 2022
One of my New Year’s resolutions will be to get back to maintaining a regular schedule on the Cutting Through newsletter. Due to some other commitments, that won’t happen to start the year, but I hope...
View ArticleBlinken tells J Street Biden will change nothing
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was the keynote speaker at last week’s J Street conference. In what was undoubtedly the low point of the entire event, Blinken not only got a standing ovation as he...
View ArticleCan the U.S.-Israel relationship survive a far-right government?
The obnoxious and hubristic Israeli response to the FBI deciding to open an investigation into Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh highlights the growing tensions...
View ArticleBiden’s response to the rightwing whirlwind in Israel — weakness
Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t even formed his government yet, but already we are beginning to see how that new government will make things difficult for the White House. And the early indications from Joe...
View ArticleWith Iran deal closer than ever Israel presses for war
While Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz was launching his assault on seven Palestinian NGOs on Thursday, Prime Minister Yair Lapid was pressing the United States closer to an attack on Iran that...
View ArticleTime’s Up. We Can’t Compromise Our Values Any Longer
With the demise of Roe v Wade, and the pathetic response from Democrats from Biden and Pelosi on down, it’s alarm bell time. I make the case that so-called “strategic voting” has been a disaster and...
View ArticleUkraine Shows We Need A Third Option Besides War and Sanctions
In my latest piece at Medium, I argue that while Joe Biden is correct to avoid using military force to aid Ukraine, sanctions are not a viable alternative as they have little hope of changing Russia’s...
View ArticleBiden and Bennett tone down US-Israel relations
Lost in the shuffle of the murderous attack at the Kabul airport, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had his first meeting with US President Joe Biden and the tone couldn’t have been more different...
View ArticleLapid, not Bennett, is the Israeli leader to watch in Washington
With the long reign of Benjamin Netanyahu finally over in Israel, it is only natural that most people are scrutinizing his successor, Naftali Bennett. But when it comes to the growing debate within the...
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 ArticleDemonizing China Is Bad Policy for Everyone
Professor Stephen Walt of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard recently wrote an interesting piece for Foreign Policy where he posed the question of whether the rest of the world might prefer...
View Article‘Equality’ is finally breaching Washington’s debate on Israel-Palestine
More on the new report from the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and US/Middle East Peace Project. In my piece for Responsible Statecraft I looked at the policy implications of the new paper. In this piece...
View ArticleBiden’s unacceptable decision on refugees
[Update: After a fierce outcry, the White House issued a statement saying it would raise the number of refugees it expects to allow to enter the United States in 2021 form the pathetically low number...
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