Matt Duss has a nice post on Jeffrey Goldberg's recent silliness regarding Human Rights Watch. Yesterday Goldberg, following up on a WSJ editorial, gave the impression that by talking about their work regarding Israeli human rights abuses while in the anti-Semitic world of Saudi Arabia,...
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Yglesias has talked about the first part of this, so let's concentrate on the second bit:Netanyahu appears to be suffering from confusion and paranoia. He is convinced that the media.
I guess that I don't read Biden's comment in the same way that Marc Lynch:BIDEN: Look, Israel can determine for itself -- it's a sovereign nation -- what's in their.
It appears that the Israelis have ditched plans to purchase the Littoral Combat Ship: In a radical revamp of its surface fleet modernization program, the Israel Navy has shelved long-held plans to purchase Lockheed Martin-produced Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), as well as a fallback option...
Now this is fascinating:In a sign of growing concern in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's government over US President Barack Obama's Middle East policies, Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled proposed Israeli sanctions on.
This is the kind of thing that Ehud Olmert shouldn't talk about, even if it's true:In an unusually public rebuke, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said Monday that Secretary.
Concur with Spencer re: the banning of the participation Arab political parties in the next Israeli election. Such a ban effectively disenfranchises Israel's Arab minority, making the claim that "Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East" problematic at best.UPDATE [by SL]: Hopefully,...
Much of interest here:Early in 2008, the Israeli government signaled that it might be preparing to take matters into its own hands. In a series of meetings, Israeli officials asked.
I think that Burg's comments on Masada could stand in for any number of other nationalistic narratives of catastrophic defeats:Also, Gershom is the coolest looking person I know.
Peter Juul makes the case:Israel’s nuclear deterrent is shrouded in secrecy, but it is estimated to have between 100 and 200 nuclear warheads. Like the United States, Israel’s nuclear delivery forces are structured to form a “triad” of air, land, and sea-based systems. Israel’s long-range...
Settlements, Bailouts, and the Roman RepublicSo now Ehud Olmert thinks that Israel needs to uproot the settlements and withdraw from Jerusalem and the West Bank. That's kind of interesting in.
Via ID, it appears that the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is deploying from Murmansk to the Mediterranean. The expectation seems to be that she will operate (at least for.