Posted in Alan Dowty, Israel on Jul 31st, 2008 Comments Off on Goodbye to Ehud
From Alan Dowty As predicted, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert could not survive the steady drumbeat of scandal that has marked his recent career. It was the Lebanese debacle of 2006 that put his prime ministership into a permanent tailspin, but he survived the final report of the Winograd Commission and might well have remained aloft […]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Israel on May 28th, 2008 Comments Off on Last straw
From Alan Dowty “Go’al nefesh” (abomination). Thus a headline on the front page of today’s Yediot Ahronot, Israel’s largest-circulation (and centrist) newspaper, characterizing yesterday’s testimony by U.S. businessman Morris Talansky about his abundant generosity over the years to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Gifts totaled $150,000, much of it cash in envelopes handed over personally, some […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Alan Dowty, Barry Rubin, Harvey Sicherman, Iran, Israel, Nuclear on Apr 14th, 2008 3 Comments »
From Alan Dowty So the focus shifts to deterrence. Both Charles Krauthammer (here) and Zev Chafets (here) hold out little hope for international efforts to block Iran getting the bomb, or for military action to that end (though Chafets suggests that Israel might be able “in the best case” to weaken and delay Iran’s program). […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Alan Dowty, Charles Hill, Chuck Freilich, Harvey Sicherman, Israel, Robert Satloff on Feb 19th, 2008 5 Comments »
From Adam Garfinkle In the latest issue of The American Interest, March/April 2008, Itamar Rabinovich, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States, former president of Tel Aviv University, former head of the Dayan Center, current visiting professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and a member of the The American Interest editorial board, […]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Democracy, Israel on Feb 2nd, 2008 Comments Off on Winograd rises above scapegoating
From Alan Dowty Commissions of inquiry are one of the strengths of the Israeli political system. They are taken very seriously, typically composed of highly respected public figures, operate in a highly judicial style, and are accorded considerable attention and deference in the public arena. Moreover, more often than in many other democracies with similar […]
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