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

Richard Armitage, former number 2 at the State Department has profound doubts about Bush policy in Lebanon. You’ll recall he served at State during the first Bush presidency and presided over the 1983 Beirut bombing fiasco. So he knows whereof he speaks and he recently spoke to Renee Montaigne of NPR (audio).
He doesn’t [...]

Yossi Sarid, despite his political longevity has lost none of his political acuity as demonstrated by this column in today’s Haaretz. He echoes a number of my own criticisms of the Gaza invasion in this caustic cry of outrage:
By the time operation Summer Rains ends, the reason for it will have been completely forgotten. [...]

Thomas R. Pickering, former number 3 in the State Department and U.S. ambassador to Israel (1985-1988) spoke some interesting truths in a speech last week covered by the Daily Star’s Rami Khouri. Pickering, who was once in the running to become Secretary of State (but lost out to Madeleine Albright), is attempting to inject [...]

Don’t believe the phony denial issued by the White House and State Department a few days ago after the NY Times exposed a plan by State and Israel to bring Hamas and any Palestinian government it creates to its knees in order to prove to Palestinians that Hamas can never bring them anything other than [...]