BLOG Post #440: Give Peace a Chance? No Way 22 Oct 202422 Oct 2024 Three Developments That Might Lead to Talks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented a week or so ago: “We will do to Lebanon what we did to Gaza.” That…
BLOG Post #421: India, Israel, and America’s Double Standard 4 May 2024 India is hailed as the world’s biggest democracy, and Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East. Yet both are led by authoritarian rulers who are far more…
BLOG Post #415: Resolving Biden’s Dilemma 9 Mar 20249 Mar 2024 A "Come-to-Jesus" Moment Following the State of the Union speech, President Biden had a conversation on the House floor with Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado, who urged the President…
BLOG Post #401: When Will It End? Some Might Prefer It Didn’t 29 Nov 202328 Nov 2023 Netanyahu, the Main Obstacle In an opinion article published in the Washington Post November 18, President Biden described how far his ambitions stretch beyond the four-day pause in fighting…
BLOG Post #398:Cease Fire? Obstacles and Opportunities 11 Nov 202311 Nov 2023 Appeals for a cease fire in Israel’s war with Hamas are growing louder. Along with many governments and international and nongovernmental organizations, the UN General Assembly, by a 120-14…
BLOG Post #397: Biden’s Choices 6 Nov 2023 Contradictions Presidents always face uncomfortable choices: supporting human rights versus providing weapons to governments that consistently violate human rights; adding to the nuclear weapons stockpile versus spending money on social…
BLOG Post #393: The Hamas Attack on Israel 11 Oct 2023 Terror and Retribution Once again, Israel and the Palestinians are at war. Hundreds are dead, thousands are wounded, Hamas has killed men, women, and children, and taken over 100 hostages.…
BLOG Post #382: The Widening Breach, in Israel and in Israel-US Relations 24 Jul 202324 Jul 2023 The Growing Divide Israel’s Knesset, or parliament, has passed the first law to scale back judicial independence, in line with the ambitions of Benjamin Netanyahu’s largely far-right, ultra-religious cabinet.…
BLOG Post #368: A Big Deal: China’s Middle East Diplomatic Coup 26 Mar 202325 Mar 2023 A Big Deal for Some By any stretch of the imagination, the March 10 announcement of China’s brokering of a Saudi Arabia-Iran agreement to resume diplomatic relations and exchange security…
BLOG Post #365: The Coup in Israel 28 Feb 202328 Feb 2023 Israel has always been touted as America’s most reliable friend in the Middle East, a bastion of democracy in a region dominated by autocracies. Now that picture is fraying as…
Podcasts Russian Policy in the Middle East: A Conversation with Prof. Mark Katz 31 Jan 2023 Prof. Katz discusses Russia's relations with Iran, Syria, Israel and other countries; points out how Russia has effectively handled its Middle East ties in the midst of war in Ukraine;…
BLOG Post #355: Israel’s Religious Terrorists 10 Nov 20229 Nov 2022 Note to Readers: Larry Kirsch is co-author of this blog. He is a consulting economist who focuses on economic and social justice, consumer protection, and public finance. Note to Readers…
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