Monthly Archives: June 2013

For America, there will be no going back to the era before September 11th, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world. We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength. They are invited by the perception of weakness. George W. Bush, September 2003 [1] That pull towards extremism appears to haveContinue reading “Isolationists left and right: The new doctrine of avoidance”

Danny Danon, the rising star of the Likud, has been brought down to Earth with a bump. After boasting during an interview with the Times of Israel that he and his fellow right-wingers in the government would block any move towards a two-state solution, the Deputy Defense Minister found himself under attack from the opposition whileContinue reading “The two-state solution and its enemies”

A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus By Frederic Raphael Pantheon, 368 pages It is no meager feat to defend a man whose own mother could not bring herself to forgive his sins—but this is the task to which Frederic Raphael sets himself in A Jew Among Romans, his apologia forContinue reading “Turncoat in a toga”