Tom Bissell on touring Israel with Christian Zionists, Joy Gordon on the Cuban embargo, Lawrence Jackson on Freddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising, a story by Paul Yoon, and more
"Only such a spectrum of perspectives could really do justice to the complexities and to the fact that Israel is totally un-understandable."
The main current of Zionism has always nourished itself on the illusions that the Jews were “a people without a land” returning to “a land without a people.” But there…
“It gradually dawned on me that since 1967, I had made very little progress in seeing Arabs or empathizing with their plight.”
Why John Kerry was bested by France and Israel in negotiations with Iran, and how the Obama Administration could get around the U.S. sanctions regime
Rashid Khalidi on how the United States sustains the failure of the Israel-Palestine peace process
By Andrew J. Bacevich, from the September issue of The American Conservative. Bacevich’s article “Glory Days” appeared in the June issue of Harper’s Magazine. Peace means different things to different…