Without a Hitch
Pundit Christopher Hitchens discusses the war on terrorism
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Sam Finegold on Turkey through Palestine
Using a recent IOP Policy Group panel discussion as a backdrop for his discussion, HPR writer Sam Finegold explores US foreign policy in the Middle East. Finegold suggests that the best strategy to developing strong relations with Turkey is for the US to take the bold step and recognize Palestinian statehood. Read the full article at the Harvard Political Review.
To Turkey through Palestine
Sam Finegold explores the future of US relations with Turkey and Palestine
Israel’s New Security Dilemma
Regardless of what does or doesn’t happen on the ground as a result of this week’s resolutions and deliberations, only Israel and the United States will lose out. It didn’t have to be this way.
You say you want a revolution?: Obama on Palestine
President Obama is an excellent rhetorician—he displayed his oratorical gift once again during his speech on the state of the Middle East and North Africa last Thursday. However, I continue to be bothered by the seemingly arbitrary distinction President Obama drew between “good” Arab revolutions in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria, and the “bad” revolution in Palestine. First, the President [...]
Netanyahu: The Dilemma.
Benjamin Netanyahu is the current and ninth prime minister of Israel. He assumed office in March 2009. Upon contemplation of what Netanyahu has accomplished during the first half of his term with regards to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, one can only answer: “nothing substantial.” As to the second half of his term, we will likely be facing two more years of [...]
A Lesson to Learn as Mount Carmel Burns
By strange designs of fate and family, the two places I’ve flown to most are southern California and Israel. And although the two occupy dramatically different places in the average American’s cultural inventory, I always find myself grouping them together. After all, they share what my home state in the American Northeast lacks: a beautiful climate, an around-the-clock selection of [...]
Israel’s Unsettling Choice
It’s not unusual for the world community to talk about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in exceptional terms. Regional scholar William Quandt calls it “the world’s most difficult conflict,” a sentiment echoed in the disproportionate hours spent covering it in international media. Every event in the conflict and the peace process seems to take on existential meaning: every new development is a [...]
The Great Paradox: Questioning American Support for Israel
Vice-President Joe Biden’s recent visit to Israel to jump-start peace talks seemed like good news, until he was met with an announcement from Israel’s Interior Ministry that it had authorized the construction of another 1,600 homes in occupied East Jerusalem. In my opinion, this highlights an incredible paradox of American foreign policy: how America’s unquestioning support for the state of [...]
Population Control: Gaza v. China
Following Kramer’s comments the other day, an interesting conversation has arisen that compares Kramer’s proposal to end pre-natal subsidies with China’s one child policy. The reason for this debate originates in the UN’s definition of genocide, as found in Article 2 of the Convention on the Preventment and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: “In the present Convention, genocide means any [...]
Weighing In: A Simple Solution to a Simple Problem
On February 3, Martin Kramer, visiting scholar at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center, gave a six-minute speech at the annual Herzliya Conference in Herzliya, Israel (discussed by Jeremy below). In that short amount he time, he provided a clear call for the West to curb Gaza’s exploding population by ending pro-natal subsidies for Gazans: “Aging populations reject radical agendas, and the Middle East [...]
A (Somewhat) Modest Proposal, Literally
Harvard Weatherhead fellow Martin Kramer’s recent remarks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have created some controversy in the blogosphere. Media Matters’ M.J. Rosenberg insinuated in blog posts on The Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo that Kramer was “advocating Palestinian genocide” when he suggested that “the West [should stop] providing pro-natal subsidies for Palestinians with refugee status.” Rosenberg concluded, “This is [...]
Welcome to Israel
On December 23rd, 2009, Harvard Law student Hebah M. Ismail’s ’06 landed at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport with the intention of joining Clinical Instructor and Global Advocacy Fellow Ahmad Amara, as well as another fellow student, for research on land disputes between the Israeli government and Bedouin communities in the Negev desert. At airport security, Ismail was interrogated for [...]
