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Dear Nick Kristof: Your Palestinian Gandhis are Already Here  

Writing on July 19 in a column intended to “correct a few common misconceptions” about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Nicholas Kristof perpetuated one of his own. Offering unsolicited advice to Palestinian political leaders, Mr. Kristof wrote: “If Palestinians turned to huge …



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Gaza: The Longest War  

What response should we have to the current bloodletting in Gaza and Israel? In the current situation, it may seem useful to apply F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous line about “a first-rate intelligence” being able to “hold two opposed ideas in …





A View of the West Bank  

The following is taken from a quite remarkable article by Abba Eban that appeared in the American Jewish magazine, Moment. It’s reprinted here with permission. — Eds. Let us look at the mechanism of the agreement. Within a month of …