Category: Foreign Policy
Netanyahu’s Destructive Demand
by M.J. Rosenberg | Oct 15, 2013 | Foreign Policy(Source: Haaretz) Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gave a major speech the other day at Bar Ilan University. Most of it was saber rattling at Iran, but enough of it was about the Palestinians to steel my belief that negotiating with Netanyahu is a waste of time and that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s […]
How AIPAC Lost Its Grip
by M.J. Rosenberg | Oct 4, 2013 | Foreign Policy(Source: ABC) I have always believed that, at some point, the Israeli prime minister and his lobby would lose their grip on U.S. Middle East policy, at least I’ve believed that since 1982 when Tom Dine, AIPAC’s most successful executive director, explained how it would happen. It was during my four year stint at AIPAC […]
Negotiating with the Enemy
by Lou Dubose | Oct 1, 2013 | Foreign PolicyWhile the world (Israel and the U.S. in particular) waits to see if Tehran is sincere in its overtures regarding nuclear weapons, let’s take a moment to recall that we won this war 10 years ago until Dick Cheney decided that the victory was unacceptable. Jake Bernstein and I turned this up while working […]
Going to War with Obama to Go to War with Iran
by M.J. Rosenberg | Sep 26, 2013 | Foreign Policy(Source: RIA Novosti) U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani have spoken. And they are on the same page. By that I mean not they agree about the issues dividing the two countries but that they are both ready to move forward, to test each other and see if an agreement is possible. […]
Why Israel Is Irrelevant To Most Young American Jews
by M.J. Rosenberg | Sep 23, 2013 | Foreign PolicyI was on the bus, returning to Washington from New York where I spent Yom Kippur. I wouldn’t have talked to the kid next to me him except I could not find the outlet near my seat to charge my phone. He saw me struggling and helped me find it. (It was camouflaged under the […]