The Israeli daily, Yediot Ahoronot reported recently that the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, had reassessed its view on Syria’s sincerity in seeking talks with Israel. Mossad now agrees with all the other branches of Israeli intelligence that the Syrian overtures are sincere and that Israel should put Syrian President Bashar al-Asad’s willingness to the test. [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Tipping the First Domino: An Israeli-Syrian Agreement
Posted in Arab League, Golan Heights, Iran, Iraq, Israeli land, Lebanon, Peace Plans, Six Day War, Syria, United States, West Bank on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One Thing Peace Groups Are Good At: Savaging Each Other
Posted in Israel, Palestine, Peace Plans on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s pretty hard to argue that any movement for peace in Israel-Palestine has been successful. It’s obvious that the situation today is worse than it has been in a long time, perhaps ever, and little progress is visible on the horizon. But there is one thing that peace activists of all stripes on this question [...]
An Idiotic Initiative
Posted in Arab League, Israel, Knesset, Likud, Palestine, Peace Plans, West Bank on October 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As a matter of course, one might well ignore “peace plans” put forward by Knesset members like MK Benny Elon of the ultra-right Moledet party, a central member of the National Union coalition party. But Elon’s new “Israeli Initiative” bears some examination both because it may unfortunately become a significant part of Israel’s policy planning [...]
Hope To Fix the Peace Conference, Not Bury It
Posted in Arab League, Ehud Olmert, Hamas, Israel, Jerusalem, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine, Peace Plans, Settlements, Six Day War, United Nations, United States, West Bank on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Middle East peace conference, announced with much ballyhoo over the summer and convened by the Bush Administration, is struggling, with good reason. The easiest obstacle to overcome is the one that’s gotten the most publicity: the talks between Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert attempting to devise a joint Israeli-Palestinian agreement on some framework before [...]
Stephen Walt and Me On the Radio
Posted in Academics, Free speech, Israel, Palestine, US-Israel Lobby on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For those interested, I appeared on a radio show today for one hour with Steven Walt, one of the authors of “The Israel Lobby.” You can listen to the show online by clicking here. If you have a problem with that direct connection, you can go to the page for the show by clicking here
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