Israel s new Ambassador to the United States Michael...

Israel’s new Ambassador to the United States, Michael B. Oren, is a firm believer in the veracity of the Armenian Genocide, despite his government’s denialist position on this issue. Prior to his ambassadorial appointment, Oren repeatedly confirmed the facts of the genocide in his writings. In the May 10, 2007 issue of the New York Review of Books, he wrote a highly positive review of Taner Akcam’s book A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. The review... read more

By BEN HUBBARD, Associated Press Writer Ben Hubbard JERUSALEM - A high-level delegation of Roman Catholic bishops criticized Israeli polices in Arab sectors of Jerusalem on Thursday and called for more contacts between ordinary Israelis and Palestinians. Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal talks to a reporter after a press conference concerning the release of the final communique of the 10th Holy Land Coordination in Jerusalem's Old City, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A high-level delegation...

Six weeks away from the Lebanese elections, and US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton paid Lebanese President Michel Suleiman a surprise visit. A surprise visit with a surprise press conference with all the local press - well, except for Al Manar, of course, but it's not like 'terrorist' journalists are going to be allowed that close to a high-level American diplomat. And Mrs Clinton had some very nice words for the cameras, too. She urged "open and free" elections in Lebanon, stating that the "people...

    גילה גדעון We have always thought that making Aliya from the U.S. to Israel is only Zionism and involves considerable economic concessions, because who can compete with the high standard of  living  in the United States of America? The ‘man in the street’ in Israel has never managed to understand why an immigrant (Olle) from the U.S.A. has made a choice to leave the basket of plenty and possibilities and come to Israel. It turns out that the data in the field today...

Yesterday evening I retweeted Daniel Drezner's suggestion that Israel is starting to behave like North Korea. How? [T]he parallels between Israel and -- gulp -- North Korea are becoming pretty eerie. True, Israel's economy is thriving and North Korea's is not. That said, both countries are diplomatically isolated except for their ties to a great power benefactor. Both countries are pursuing autarkic policies that immiserate millions of people. The majority of the population in both countries...

I am greatly bothered by the amount of support the United States gives to Israel, arguably greatest aggressor in Middle East. While I believe Mr. Obama has loosened the reins Israel has had on U.S. foreign policy in the last couple decades, our interests are still far too embedded with Israel's goals of dominance in the region. It seems U.S. politicians have found it difficult saying "no" to giving Israel anything and everything it needs both politcially and monetarily. In addition the "conservative"...