Posts Tagged ‘Netanyahu’

July 19th, 2009 - 1:49 am § in Commentary, Current Events, Politics

“Economic Peace” in the New York Times?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently went public with an Israeli plan for ‘economic peace’ with the Palestinian people. This concept is distinct from political peace, which addresses the stated demands of the Palestinian authority, in that it ‘circumvents’ this [...]

July 10th, 2009 - 1:11 pm § in Commentary, Current Events

Beware Self-Righteousness

When people write about lessons to be drawn from the Jewish Holocaust, they often contrast two distinct positions: the nationalist interpretation, and the universal one. The first school’s lessons usually involve the deployment of military force. A typical example is the Israeli Chief of Staff[...]