Israel
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A complete political perversion of diplomacy is upon us that further illustrates the underlying illogic that cements US-Israel relations. Speaker of the House, John Boehner, and the Israeli Ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer, conspired to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address both houses of Congress on March 3, just two weeks before the Israeli…
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Israel’s Messy Package (Part 2)
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6 min read
Yesterday, in Part 1, I told my personal family’s jewish history in an attempt to put the existence of Israel into a broader context. Earlier enough, I had dispensed with the myth of my youth, that Israel was simply the world’s and Palestine’s gift to the jewish culture, a safe harbor for Jews following the…
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Israel’s Messy Package (Part 1)
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5 min read
“Creating land already occupied by Palestinians would ‘imperil not just American but all Western interests in the Middle East.’” —Dean Acheson, 1947, statesman and foreign policy expert for several presidential administrations, including as Harry Truman’s Secretary of State In the early 1900s, both sides of my Jewish family fled the Kiev countryside because of the militant…