Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

In the past few weeks since the Gaza and Lebanon invasions began, I’ve been inveighing against George Bush’s ineffectual response to the mass mayhem. I thought it was sheer ineptitude a la Hurricane Katrina. But with U.S. veto of a Lebanese government call for a cease fire in return for deployment of the [...]

One of the many problems with Israeli policy toward its hostile neighbors is to believe that by escalating the conflict to levels it hopes the other side will feel are intolerable, it will somehow cow them. The only problem with this approach is that it makes the fatal assumption that when you escalate, your [...]