06/12/2014
The conversation in Israel has moved past the 2-state nonsense. The discourse now revolves around how much of Judea and Samaria Israel needs to retain in perpetuity. On the Left, Yair Lapid and Michael Oren want to keep maybe 10-20%. On the Right opinions vary between Naftali Bennett’s plan of applying Israeli law to Area C – around 60% to…
06/11/2014
For nearly six years, Obama and his supporters have managed to fend off allegations that his foreign policy is even more ideological – and far more radical – than Bush’s by channeling the public’s aversion to pie-in-the-sky rhetoric and obfuscating facts. US President Barack Obama is an artist of political propaganda. Both his greatest admirers and his most vociferous…
06/10/2014
I find the interview below with former US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford extraordinary. I cannot recall a similar instance of a senior Obama administration official attacking Obama’s foreign policy in this way. -Caroline Glick Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford: I could no longer ‘defend the American policy’ By Mick Krever Originally published at CNN.com …
06/06/2014
Mahmoud Abbas must be great at cards. The PLO chief has no real assets to speak of. He’s physically unattractive. He has zero charisma. He’s old. And no matter how hard he tries, Abbas can’t do much of anything to dampen public support for Hamas or raise public support for himself. By many accounts, if elections are…
06/05/2014
By Natasha Mozgovaya Originally published by Haaretz.com Arab residents of East Jerusalem are divided on whether they would want Israeli or Palestinian citizenship should a future Palestinian state be created, suggests a new poll released on Wednesday in Washington. The survey, conducted by Pechter Middle East Polls in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations, asked a simple…
06/03/2014
Review by Evelyn Gordon Devotees of the two-state solution will surely dismiss Caroline Glick’s The Israeli Solution out of hand. They shouldn’t. Whether or not one agrees with Glick’s conclusions, it’s hard to dispute her premise: The two-state solution has failed repeatedly for more than 80 years, starting with serial British partition plans in the 1930s. Each time, it…
06/02/2014
On May 19 I spoke about my book, The Israeli Solution, in Washington, for The Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET). Video of the speech and a separate video of the question-and-answer session is below. Here is the Q and A session that followed my address to EMET. I actually think it is in a way…