Israel and the making of nations
The country is a test case for the survival of nationalism everywhere
Middle east
Tuesday
Why do neoliberals get let off the Iraq War hook?
There are prominent liberal hawks who have somehow escaped condemnation for helping promote the invasion
Tuesday
Why the post-Cold War era is far from over
Avoiding repetition of the errors that marred US policy in the recent past will require more than money
Tuesday
A year in Gaziantep before the earthquake
Those looking for the new Casablanca would not have been disappointed with this Turkish city
Wednesday
The missing Biden foreign policy
There’s no plan, no careful set of chess moves, just an empty void
Monday
Don’t expect much from Biden’s Middle East trip
Outcomes will likely be unimpressive
Tuesday
‘America or chaos’ is a false choice
Foreign policy leadership does not mean getting involved in every conflict
Wednesday
Did the realists underestimate Putin?
Russia’s Ukraine invasion is George W. Bush in Iraq all over again
Wednesday
Noninterventionists never win arguments
How did we arrive to the same spot we were in on the eve of the Iraq War?
Tuesday
Israel and America are drifting apart
Our interests have diverged as even the Israeli prime minister recently acknowledged
Monday
Return to Iraq
More than two millennia of Jewish history stalks the land that now encompasses the modern state of Iraq
Wednesday
The fantasy of an Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace’
The best that can be hoped for is a ceasefire, forty years without war
Tuesday
Biden’s Pentagon wants to keep the military overstretched
The latest Global Posture Review refuses to make hard choices
Monday
Goodbye, Lebanon
Farewell to a failed state
Tuesday
Saigon and Kabul: what would Nixon say?
Alas, here we are, doomed to history repeating because of Biden’s disregard of all of the lessons of the previous debacle
Monday
Joe Biden’s short walk in the Hindu Kush
To say that what just happened in Afghanistan caught the Biden administration by surprise would be the understatement of the year
Saturday
The dark Prince
A short history of a very modern mercenary
Friday
Will coronavirus lead to a US war with Iran?
Tehran’s virus troubles could allow Shia militias to attack US forces in Iraq
Thursday
All forecasts are off if Iran shuts the Strait of Hormuz
Oil price spikes are not the economic threat they once were
Wednesday
Donald Trump and the unreality of a two-state solution
The AIPAC conference, that annual celebration of the triangular romance between America, Israel and American Jews, concluded last night with the traditional protestations of undying love, democratic compatibility and common values. Meanwhile, AIPAC’s identity crisis deepens, and a redefinition of the goals of the American-Israeli relationship looms. AIPAC is studiously bipartisan, but the maladroit policies … Read more
