An open letter to Hillary Clinton, telling her what life is really like in Jerusalem and informing her that her stand on uniting the city isn’t half the plan her husband proposed in 2001.
Gershom Gorenberg
Gershom Gorenberg is a senior correspondent for the Prospect. His most recent book is War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis From the Middle East. Follow him on Twitter @GershomG.
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Judging Israel’s Alleged Strike in Syria
Israeli officials won’t confirm that they were behind a military raid in northern Syria, so information about it has come from the usual unreliable sources.
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The Israeli Government’s Genocide Politics
How Israel’s top officials are turning a blind eye to both the decades-old genocide in Armenia and the present-day plight of refugees from Darfur.
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And the Land Was Troubled for 40 Years
As the Six Day War ended, Israeli leaders said that the occupation of Palestine was colonial and dangerous.
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Settlement Creep
At first glance, it seemed like good news: In January, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz froze plans for a new settlement in the West Bank, partly in response to U.S. objections. Just a few weeks before, Peretz had given the go-ahead for the establishment of Maskiot, the first new settlement to win Israeli government approval […]
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Shotgun Blast
“Gawd,” I said, with my morning mix of disgust and voyeurism at a news item I wish I’d never seen and would surely read. Thus compelled, I clicked on the New York Times headline, “Essay Linking Liberal Jews and Anti-Semitism Sparks a Furor.” Here we go, I thought: Another right-wing American Jew with fantasies of […]
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Uncle Sam Will Pay
The white houses of Shilo stand on narrow streets on hilltops north of Ramallah in the West Bank. The homes have red tile roofs and wide lawns, and on weekday mornings almost the only sound is a dog barking. The Israeli settlement has the standard gate at the entrance, and a swimming pool, an outdoor […]
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Olmert’s Ulster
Now that Israeli leader Ehud Olmert has nailed together a ruling coalition and can start work on his signature policy plan, a pullout from much of the West Bank, he has this much in his favor: What’s left of country’s hard right can’t claim he has no mandate for withdrawal. Consider that cause for one […]
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Olmert’s Ulster
Now that Israeli leader Ehud Olmert has nailed together a ruling coalition and can start work on his signature policy plan, a pullout from much of the West Bank, he has this much in his favor: What’s left of country’s hard right can’t claim he has no mandate for withdrawal. Consider that cause for one […]
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Palestinian Upset
All together now: Oops! Oo-oops! After the Palestinian elections, the chorus singing that refrain includes not only the Bush administration, Israeli intelligence analysts, the old leadership of the Palestinian Authority, and Palestinian pollsters who were reassuringly wrong all the way through the exit surveys. The people most perplexed by the victory of Hamas, the Islamic […]
