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

Seymour Hersh is probably shouting “I told you so” after reading this story. He’s been reporting for months, even years about deliberations within the Pentagon on eliminating Iran’s nuclear capability. The crux of his reporting as I’ve read it is that it seems highly likely that either we or the Israelis will attack [...]

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 [...]

The parallels between the Bush Administration’s approach to Iran as the latter steams ahead to create a nuclear weapon and its approach to Saddam Hussein in the runup to the Iraq war are eerie, ominous and frightening. First, Bush appears to give diplomacy a chance by working with the UN and allies to influence [...]