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Abraham Katsman

Abe Katsman, a Seattle native, is an American attorney, consultant, political commentator and writer living in Israel… [More]

January 14, 2013
5:41 pm

Neocons, realists…now meet Obama’s foreign policy surrealists

For some time, American foreign policy has been dominated by two camps. The neoconservatives advocate an idealistic, assertive promotion of liberty, democracy and American interests, including......

November 6, 2012
8:40 am

When a weakness as a candidate is a presidential strength

Mitt Romney is a bad self-promoter. The reasons why are also reasons he'll be a fine president. How bad a self-promoter is Mitt Romney? Pretty bad, when you think about......

November 2, 2012
3:53 am

Romney Wins in a Landslide (at Least in Israel): What it Means

On the election map, the State of Israel is not just blue and white; it is solidly red. The Presidential election results are in. Well, at least the votes from......

October 26, 2012
1:23 pm

From under the bus: A response to Efraim Halevy

Efraim Halevy, the former director of Israel’s Mossad, has penned a most peculiar column published in The New York Times. Halevy maintains that “no Democratic president......

October 17, 2012
2:38 pm

Obama’s improved debate performance: What the pundits are missing

Let the race to over-analyze the debate begin! What’s that? Oh, it seems I’m a bit late — instant analysis and spin were already in full force within seconds......

October 4, 2012
6:14 pm

The Surprising Israeli Takeaway From the Presidential Debate

The first Obama-Romney debate is over, and has been followed by predictable torrents of over-dissection and over-analysis. So, why add more? Because reactions in Israel may be surprisingly instructive......

September 30, 2012
4:03 pm

Don’t bury Romney: How not to read presidential polls

At first, it was just a trickle, a misguided throw-away line here and there, easily ignored. Then it started picking up momentum, showing up in one Israeli commentary after......

September 11, 2012
12:56 pm

The Democrats Were For Jerusalem, Before they Were Against It, Before They Were For It, Before They Were against It

Are we really supposed to trust these people? The outrageousness of the stories surrounding the Democratic Party platform’s now-you see-them, now-you-don’t sections relating to Israel and Jerusalem......

July 11, 2012
12:52 pm

Big trouble for Obama: Lessons of presidential reelection history

Let’s take a short break from the back-and-forth arguments on the merits of whether to reelect President Barack Obama or to send him packing after one term. Instead, here’s......