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February 21, 2013
7:15 pm

Reexamining nonviolence in a new Middle East

Two years after Egyptians took to the streets and took down Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, protests have once again exploded across the country. The violent clashes in Port Said,......

December 26, 2012
4:44 pm

The unilateral disengagement of the American titans of peace

What does unilateral disengagement sound like today? If you are listening for the noise of soldier uprooting settler, your attention is focused not only on the wrong signals, but......

April 29, 2012
10:29 pm

Beyond Anti-Semitism: Why Bob Simon (and his international activist equivalents) always comes back to Israel

I asked once this one clichéd question that always comes to mind – ‘So why Israel of all places? Why not Syria? Egypt? Russia or China?’ One of them......

April 16, 2012
9:32 pm

What Gunter Grass talks about when Gunter Grass talks about Israel

West Berlin, June 3, 1967. A renowned leftist German writer sits before a group of students at Berlin’s Free University, speaking. The students share the writer’s political ilk, but......

March 18, 2012
6:37 pm

On the Push to Move America’s Red Lines on Iran, Issues of Definition and Enforcement

A few days ago I co-published a new piece (along with Jaclyn Tandler, Junior Nuclear Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) in Diplomatic Courier, which you can......

March 5, 2012
4:19 am

David Makovsky, Elliott Abrams, Aaron David Miller: three views on President Obama’s AIPAC speech

David Makovsky, Elliott Abrams, and Aaron David Miller. Three top-tier Middle East experts. Three distinct backgrounds and perspectives on Middle East Policy. And unsurprisingly given their backgrounds, three very......

March 4, 2012
8:37 pm

Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY) on Pres. Obama and PM Netanyahu

I just wrapped up a brief conversation with Congressman Eliot Engel, a Democratic Representative from New York who has a long history of support for Israel. Congressman Engel appeared......

March 4, 2012
8:12 pm

President Obama’s speech: a rare moment of unity

WASHINGTON -- The first reviews from AIPAC attendees on the President’s address are in, and they are generally positive – although a few noted that Obama did not......

March 4, 2012
3:13 pm

On Obama and Netanyahu: A View from AIPAC Policy Conference

From the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC – With election season coming into full swing, a definitive Obama-Netanyahu meeting upcoming, and the looming Iranian threat growing more potent by......