Mideast

Thoughts about turning 75

So is 75 just a number? Not for me. It’s a beginning. Several, in fact.

Abbas can't harm peace moves

So disgust, outrage, and revulsion. What no one is expressing is surprise.

Iran: Look who's fighting the last war

The clear conclusion is—if Iran wants nuclear weapons, it will get them. But that doesn’t mean it will use them.

“Palestinian Spring”? Not such a good deal

It took me a whole book to explain what went wrong (“Broken Spring,” Gefen, 2014), but the parallels with the Palestinians are striking.

Nothing has changed

This problem,,,may not have a solution, Nothing Israel can do, or would be permitted to do, would stop the barrages for long.

A “new Middle East” you didn’t see coming

Frustrated by decades of Palestinian obstinacy, moderate Arab nations were finally moving to put the Israeli-Palestinian issue behind them.

Let's start a Facebook revolution!

"All I ask is that you respond in kind. If you can’t or don’t want to do that, feel free to unfriend me. Or I'll save you the trouble."

"Embattled" Bibi's failed demo

"After such efforts...anything less than 100.000 (demonstrators) would have been a failure."

Join my February book/lecture tour!

"Yet Israelis keep voting on security, the the real issues are domestic, including relations with Diaspora Jews."