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Just days after the New York Times Magazine’s lurid cover story, “Israel Vs. Iran,” the Washington Post struck back with a two-fisted effort to win…
Tuches aufn tish: Buttocks on the table. That’s the colorful way my Yiddish-speaking ancestors said, “Let’s cut the BS and talk about…
Here are the Three Sacred Commandments for Americans who shape the public conversation on Israel: 1. For politicians, especially at the…
Palestine as America’s next Vietnam? Like all historical analogies, it’s far from perfect. We aren’t about to send the U.S. Army to…
Writing about U.S. Middle East policy used to be a boring job. You’d start out with "The U.S. supports Israel’s stand on…"…
Every year, apologists for Israel’s occupation of Palestine eagerly await Martin Luther King Day. Then they trot out these words, spoken by…
The Israel Project hired pollster Stanley Greenberg to test American opinion on the Middle East conflict — and got a big surprise.…
This is the way the Global War on Terror (also known, in Bush-era jargon, as GWOT) ends, not with a bang, not…
Looking back on Barack Obama’s first post-election interview with "60 Minutes," no one should be surprised that he admitted he’s reading about…
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