When Barack Obama left to visit Israel in March, expectations could hardly have been lower. He had a relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that was widely described as “frosty.” The two had feuded over everything from Obama’s insistence, early in his first term, that Israel freeze settlement building to Netanyahu’s repeated threat to bomb […]
Israel
Posted inBooks, Magazine, May/June 2012, Politics
Peaced Out
Peter Beinart warns that American Jews must refocus on the democratic and humanitarian principles of Zionism before Israel becomes simply another despotic Middle Eastern state.
Posted inBooks, January/February 2012, Magazine, Politics
Party of God Knows What
Will Hezbollah remain a movement devoted to war with Israel or a pragmatic political player in Lebanon? That choice could determine the future of the Middle East.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, November/December 2011
They Shall Reap the Whirlwind
How religious zealots in the Israeli government are supporting a new generation of extremist settlers who hate the Israeli government.
Posted inMagazine
The Army’s $800,000 Model Airplane
A future in which remotely piloted vehicles have come to replace manned aircraft for most combat
functions may be not only inevitable, but appealing. Why should the country have to build expensive airplanes? And why should brave pilots have to be killed in them?
Posted inMagazine
Busting Our Mental Blocks on Foreign Aid
During the fall of 1971 my wife and I were living in West Africa, working with Ghanaians on construction projects in the bush. Shortly before we were to head back to a more familiar life, news came that the U. S. Senate had voted to cut off foreign aid programs, apparently as a slap at […]
