I have let this go for far too long. I'm not conceited enough to think that what I have to say will make much difference either way, but as a United States citizen, a Jew, and a person who considers...
Unless you are living under a rock you are aware that once again Israel is launching an attack on Palestine. Gaza is once again covered in blood. I have strong feelings on this issue; however due to...
The one thing we really know about Barack Obama and his abilities is that the President-Elect is a great campaigner. The energy, the electrifying speeches, the limited missteps, and the ability to...
Last week’s U.S. election, a solid win for Barack Obama, still left the country in two distinct, opposing groups. There are those who will miss the election and curl up in a ball over its...
This is a review of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation by Saree Makdisi. W. W. Norton. 2008. Saree Makdisi is a Palestinian-American academic. What makes this UCLA professor stand out right...
Ahron Bregman teaches in the War Studies Department at King's College, London. He specializes in the Arab-Israeli conflict and is the author of several books, including Israel's Wars: A History Since...
This is a review of 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris. Yale University Press. 2008. In 1980's, a group of Israeli historians including Tom Segev of Haaretz (a daily Israeli newspaper),...
This is a review of A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine: An Insider's Account of the Geneva Initiative by Menachem Klein, translated by Haim Watzman. Columbia University Press. 2007. We are...
This is a review of The Other side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish-Arab Divide. Author: Susan Nathan. Publisher: HarperCollins, 2006 The State of Israel is a Jewish nation. Every Jew is...
Just as I was beginning to sketch out this column, commissioned as it was by Global Comment, I hit a minor snag: I had no clue what I was talking about. Apparently, the whole situation in the...