Many of those calling for Israelis to boycott stores with Israeli-Arab employees no doubt supported the anti-boycott, divestment, and sanctions law for Israel and the settlements.
Focusing on the impartial problems that nuclear weapons create for their possessors might be of more benefit in ratcheting down tensions between Israel and Iran than belittling their genuine security concerns.
A poem for the mother of a young man killed by a bomb at Hebrew University in 2002.
If Iran builds nuclear weapons, Israel might have to project a new image of itself as a careful and composed actor as opposed to the “crazy when furious” reputation that the Israel Defense Forces have cultivated.
Israel’s refusal to come clean about its nuclear-weapons program is exponentially more duplicitous than whatever Iran has hidden about its nuclear-weapons work.
The alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi consul and the recent IAEA report on its nuclear program are the first two acts in the latest campaign to soften the West up for an attack on Iran.
If Iran developed and built nuclear weapons, both it and Israel would have incentives to use them to strike first in the event of a crisis
There’s no accommodation that President Obama can make that will satisfy Americans hawkish for Israel.
While neoconservative commentators were declaring that diplomacy doesn’t work with Iran, members of Congress were setting about ensuring that it wouldn’t.
Launching an air attack on Iran requires bright nights.