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US on Israeli Settlements: A Policy Without A Policy
This article originally appeared at LobeLog. There is an indispensable wealth of material there on recent events in Israel/Palestine, Iran, Egypt and others. I urge you to check it out. Some days, it...
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Israeli-Palestinian Talks Are Quietly Foundering
This piece was originally published at LobeLog If John Kerry wants to find a silver lining in the heavy criticism US foreign policy has faced due to the events in both Egypt and Syria, he might find it...
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Syria For Americans
Both opposition to and support of Barack Obama’s proposal to bomb Syria have been focusing on a chemical weapons attack that killed some 1400 people while pushing to the background a civil war that has...
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Smoke and Mirrors: The “New” Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
This piece originally appeared at LobeLog The so-called “renewed” Israel-Palestine peace process is turning out to be nothing more than an illusion, as many observers from Tzipi Livni and Saeb Erekat...
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The Syria Strike Debate: A Political Scorecard
A review of the politics of the debate over a US strike on Syria. Who made political gains and losses and why? One thing that was certainly set back was room in the discussion about doing anything...
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Oslo At 20: A Failed Process
Ian Lustick’s piece in the New York Times this past weekend certainly raised some hackles. The half-dozen experts I saw speak at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace last week, however,...
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A Dangerous Proposal For Israel-Palestine “Peace”
This article originally appeared at LobeLog Neither Bibi nor Abu Mazen can be happy with what the US is apparently proposing. But Israelis will accept it. Palestinians can’t and won’t. The tentative...
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One State Or Two, A New Peace Process Is Needed
This article originally appeared at LobeLog. J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami, champion of the two-state solution In a debate recorded by the Institute for Palestine Studies, human rights lawyer Noura...
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Israelis, Saudis Just Getting Started in Opposing U.S.-Iran Detente
This article originally appeared at LobeLog. Bibi and Kerry The trick to finding an agreement between the P5+1 world powers and Iran has become clear: keep Israel and Saudi Arabia out of the room. (But...
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Peace With Iran: Obama’s New Middle East Strategy
The Obama Administration has never had the best relationship with Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu has never hidden his disdain for Barack Obama, and worked for his defeat in 2012. But the level of invective...
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In Congress, The Fight For The Future of US Foreign Policy
This article originally appeared at LobeLog. For further illustration of this issue, see my article from November 15 at Souciant. There’s a showdown coming, and the outcome may determine how the US...
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Rapid Reaction to the Iran Nuclear Deal
This article originally appeared at LobeLog, just a few hours after the Iran nuclear interim agreement was announced. Catherine Ashton and Mohammed Zarif at the UN in September These are my initial...
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Why Israeli-Palestinian Talks Will Fail, Again
This article originally appeared at LobeLog U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the outset of a meeting focused on the Middle East peace...
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The New AIPAC: Win Some, Lose Some
The year of 2013 saw three major defeats in three different ways for AIPAC, the so-called “pro-Israel” lobby group heretofore thought invincible by some (it is important to note that the policies they...
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2013 Brings No Change to US Policy On Israel-Palestine
This article originally appeared at LobeLog. When it comes to the tedious dance between the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the more things change, the Shimon Peres, John Kerry and...
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Kerry Lands In The Israel-Palestine Blame Game
This article was originally published at LobeLog. US Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Israel on Jan. 2, starting 2014 with an attempt to save what is increasingly looking like a doomed round of...
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Domestic Issues Challenge Israel, US and the Palestinians
This article originally appeared at LobeLog As US Secretary of State John Kerry pursues talks in Jerusalem and Ramallah, political opportunists on all sides are trying to seize the moment to advance...
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Israelis and Palestinians Moving Apart, Not Closer
This article originally appeared at LobeLog. It’s a busy week for Secretary of State John Kerry. On Monday, he received Israel’s top two negotiators, Tzipi Livni and Isaac John Kerry boarding a plane...
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Poll Shows Diminishing Support for Two-State Solution
In my latest report for Inter Press Service, I examine a new Zogby poll of Israelis and Palestinians on the two decades of Oslo and the decidedly bleak outlook going forward.Filed under: Peace Plans...
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SodaStream Super Bowl Ad Obscures More Important Economic Pressure On Israel
When I watched the Super Bowl on Sunday, I tried to avoid the unpleasant experience of also watching Scarlett Johansson’s A protest against SodaStream in DC in 2012 shameful ad for SodaStream, but...
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