A Failure of Leadership & Imagination
“Mr. Netanyahu called on the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to resume peace negotiations without preconditions. But the prime minister also said it was possible that the gaps between the two...
View ArticleComplicity Through Passivity
If it takes two to tango, it takes at least as many to collaborate, in every sense of that word. Coming on the heels of my column last week about Israeli intransigence on peacemaking with...
View ArticleStill Doing Laundry
Ever since Jane Eisner’s opinion piece appeared in the Guardian last week — “Don’t be fooled by the applause, Binyamin Netanyahu” — I have seen a range of comments flying around by American Jews upset...
View ArticleClinton’s Spring is Sprung
Last night, while listening to NPR’s “All Things Considered,” I heard Secretary of State Hillary Clinton say: “If you believe that the freedoms and opportunities that we speak about as universal...
View ArticleMisdirected, Misdirection
There are plenty of reasons to try to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Nuclear non-proliferation should be the Mom-and-apple-pie of international relations because nuclear weapons are...
View ArticleStand For Peace
Like any compassionate human, I am distraught and saddened by the escalating violence, terror, destruction, and death taking place in parts of Israel and Gaza. But do not ask me to “stand with Israel.”...
View Article“How we relate to each other as human beings”
“The question, which I am asking here today, is how we relate to each other as human beings.” That is definitely an excellent question, and its source is none other than Daniel Birnbaum, the CEO of...
View ArticleHistorical Confluence
In the last 24 hours, my Facebook and Twitter feeds have been rich with posts on three separate historical events. The first is the tragic bombing at the Boston marathon yesterday. The second is the...
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