Posted in Alan Dowty, Israel, Palestinians, United Nations, Walter Reich on Nov 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
From Alan Dowty As the Goldstone report on the Gaza war wends it way up the UN food chain, casting further opprobrium on Israel at each level, it is legitimate to question Israel’s handling of this challenge. Did the Israeli response lessen or aggravate the damage? There are serious critiques that could have been levied […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Alan Dowty, Israel, Palestinians, Robert O. Freedman, Robert Satloff, Walter Reich on Aug 27th, 2009 4 Comments »
From Robert O. Freedman In his June 2009 Bar-Ilan University speech, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asserted that Palestinian recognition of Israel as a “Jewish state” was one of Israel’s requirements for agreeing to the establishment of a Palestinian state. Both Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat,immediately rejected the requirement. However, […]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Israel, Nuclear on Jul 13th, 2009 1 Comment »
From Alan Dowty In some respects, Ari Shavit’s widely-noted interview of Israel’s national security adviser, Uzi Arad, contained no great surprises. Arad’s insistence on “deep” acceptance of Israel (not just de facto acknowledgement of Israel’s existence) by Palestinians; leaving the door open, just by a crack, to a Palestinian state, while dismissing the possibility of […]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Israel, Palestinians on Jun 22nd, 2009 1 Comment »
From Alan Dowty Some sixty years ago my mentor Hans J. Morgenthau posited as a cardinal rule of diplomacy that states should “give up the shadow of worthless rights for the substance of real advantage.” It is not clear whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has ever read Morgenthau, but he seems attuned to this […]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Bernard Haykel, Bruce Jentleson, Chuck Freilich, Egypt, Harvey Sicherman, Josef Joffe, Mark N. Katz, Mark T. Kimmitt, Martin Kramer, Michael Mandelbaum, Michael Reynolds, Michael Rubin, Michael Young, Michele Dunne, Philip Carl Salzman, Public Diplomacy, Raymond Tanter, Walter Laqueur on Jun 5th, 2009 3 Comments »
Posted in Alan Dowty, Diplomacy, Iran, Israel, Palestinians on May 20th, 2009 Comments Off on Barack and Bibi: starting the clock
From Alan Dowty The meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu has triggered a stampede of soothsayers. Every aspect of their encounter is scrutinized for clues to their personal chemistry and, by extension, the future course of U.S.-Israeli relations. But these relations are rooted in forces more fundamental than personalities, intriguing as these two […]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Iran, Israel, Nuclear, Walter Laqueur on May 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
From Alan Dowty Israeli public discourse over Iran’s nuclear weapons program is dominated by two analogies: the Holocaust and the 1981 Israeli attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq. The prominence of the Holocaust—the most horrific genocide in human history—should be no surprise. Jewish history seen through the Zionist lens is a chronicle of […]
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