The Magnes Zionist

Meron Benvenisti is always interesting, and today in Haaretz he makes for good reading. I think he overstates his case -- only some Pales...

With 99% of the polling places in, the Israeli Knesset elections have gone very well, in this writer's opinion. In fact, it is hard to s...

When Richard Silverstein and I went to the New York Review of Books to publish, or publicize, our jointly-authored statement on Gaza, the e...

A reader referred me to yet another one of Anthony H. Cordesman's analyses on the Middle East. Cordesman may be familiar to some readers...

Some of my readers say, "You are always quick to adopt the Palestinian position and to reject as untrue the IDF position. Why is that?...

Almost a year before the Gaza campaign, on Dec. 27, 2007, I wrote a post that began with an Israeli joke Two Israeli Jews meet each other on...

Hadash released a great set of four election commercials today, which feature conversations between a supporter of Meretz and a supporter of...

Last summer, Reform Judaism Magazine published a puff piece on the IDF's Code of Ethics, with just the right number of quotes from B...

February 2nd, 2009 Every day brings news of how fragile the Gaza ceasefire is.  An Israeli soldier was killed recently in an ambush. M...

Pninah Sharvit Baruch, the outgoing head of the section of the IDF legal department specializing in international law, is scheduled to teach...

I plan to write a fuller post on the paper by James G. Lindsay, former General Counsel of UNRWA, which was published by the pro-Israeli th...

"We Shall Not Be a Party to Their Counsel!" As human beings, we are shocked and appalled at the mass destruction unleashed by...

Before the 1992 elections for the Israeli Knesset I attended a "hug bayit" (parlour meeting) of religious Jews with Naomi Chazan,...

In the middle of the Gaza campaign, one of my children, whose political views don't entirely mesh with mine, asked me the following ques...

In the Fall of 2007 I was thrown on the Obama bandwagon by a shul buddy of mine. I didn't know squat about Obama then. I had heard of ...

Now that the artillery has ceased firing, we are seeing a few Israelis speak out against the horrors of this so-called war, a war whose main...

Less than a month ago, I wrote a post called, "To War! To War! Fredonia's Going to War!" Here is an excerpt of what I wrote t...

It shouldn't surprise me to learn how the Israel Defence Force bombs children deliberately (see under "double effect" or ...

In a few minutes I leave behind my Jerusalem home, and I board a plane for my DC home. The Jerusalem I leave behind is sullen and grey, defe...

Richard Silverstein and I, along with Verso Books , the publishers of A Time to Speak Out , have prepared the following statement from Amer...

After weeks of intense fighting in which over 1000 Palestinians have been killed, Israel and the US are close to an agreement that Hamas sho...

Recently, I read in a prominent newspaper an op-ed that concluded as follows: The only small chance for peace today is the same chance that ...