I spent yesterday at the NJ State Democratic Conference so I wasn’t able to blog about the dangerous and complicated situation involving an alleged Israeli Air Force incursion into Syrian airspace. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the situation, Syrian news outlets reported on Thursday that and IAF jet breached its airspace, dumped […]
Two years ago, Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearshimer published a paper in the London Review of Books about the disproportionate influence of the “Israel Lobby” on US Foreign Policy. Mearshimer and Walt recently published a book-length version of this essay as The Israel Lobby.
William Grimes published a review of the book in the […]
I apologize for my weekend-long absence. A perfect storm of two papers being due and two weddings kept me from my blog. Rest assured, with today’s posts I am back again.
A fairly significant ruling today from the Israeli Supreme Court stipulated that Israel must re-route a portion of the Wall/Fence/Barrier in the village of Bil’in. […]
The Jerusalem Post’s Khaled Abut Toameh, by far the best writer on Palestinian affairs among any Israeli newspaper, has a very interesting article in today’s online edition about The reopening of a diplomatic process on the status of Jerusalem. PA President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed Adnan Husseini – former head of the Islamic Waqf – […]
As always, a slow news day in the Middle East is a good news day. Therre was one story in the Jerusalem Post when I woke up this morning that I found very interesting. Reports indicate that Hamas has offered to turn over the positions and institutions they seized from Fatah during their takeover of […]
Earlier today, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met in Jerusalem to work on the so-called “Declaration of Principles” for the international peace conference set for this Fall. Although Israeli sources are reporting that Olmert and Abbas discussed final status issues during the meeting, Voice of Palestine Radio is reporting […]
What a shocker: Hamas is trying to derail the modest progress being made between PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert toward some sort of agreement ahead of the Middle East peace summit in the fall.
From the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, Shin Bet: Hamas in Syria plans suicide bombings:
The security services are […]
The buzz du-jour coming from the Middle East is that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are negotiating based on a so-called “Declaration of Principles” ahead of the US-sponsored Middle East peace summit set to take place in the Fall. Although the mere term “declaration of principles” evokes thoughts of […]