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AIPAC, Gaza and Letters to the President
I was reminiscing recently about a very pleasant conversation I had with Stephen Walt, who, along with John Mearsheimer, wrote the explosive book “The Israel Lobby.” Both authors are aware that I...
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Americans Support Anti-Settlement UN Resolution, Part I
Many of my readers are probably aware that the Palestinians have been working to bring a resolution to the UN Security Council that would reaffirm the obvious fact that Israeli settlements are illegal...
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Arab Democracy and Israel: They Can be Compatible
The following post was originally published on the Meretz USA blog. – MP It is hard to imagine that a matter as explosive as The Palestine Papers (a massive leak of some 1,600 documents the Palestinian...
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Thoughts for the Day II: American Reactions
A lot of things will grow out of the Egyptian protests that we cannot predict, but at this point, very few have begun yet. What has begun is what one colleague called the “Blameobamathon.” Aluf Benn,...
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A 4th of July Message
238 years ago today, a country declared its independence. The country that was created on that day had already begun its Photo by Rob Roy, used under a Creative Commons license campaign of genocide of...
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The Cold Realities of US Policy in Israel-Palestine
During the summertime war in Gaza, the two most progressive members of the US Senate stirred up controversy among their backers with expressions of uncritical support for Israel. At a town hall...
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Bernie Sanders Foreign Policy Speech: A Renewal of American Purpose
Today, at Westminster College, Senator Bernie Sanders delivered a powerful, progressive view of foreign policy. This is precisely the way Democrats should be talking about international affairs. Yet,...
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Renaming and “Rethinking Foreign Policy”
You might have noticed that the name of my blog has changed. It’s a change that’s been a long time coming, as I’ve not been comfortable with the name, “The Third Way” for quite a while. But the change...
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U.S. Foreign Policy: This Is Us
Last weekend a pair of horrifying massacres in the U.S. cities of El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio sent shock waves through the country. The outrage was so powerful that even President Donald Trump had...
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A short while back, I got a message from someone on Facebook asking me if I see any hope for the Palestinian people. Over two decades of doing work to support Palestinian rights, I’ve been asked this...
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