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

What is it about so-called Mideast analysts, especially Israelis, who willfully misremember the member nations of George Bush’s Axis of Evil? Michael Oren is only the latest to stumble in this fashion. Writing an otherwise surprisingly open-minded (for an Israeli nationalist-rightist) New York Times column on Syrian-Israeli relations, he writes:
All that was before [...]

First you’re down, then you’re up, then you’re down again. ‘That’s the story of, that’s the glory of’ Israeli-Arab peace. Way back in the Dark Ages of the Cold War the Union of Concerned Scientists maintained a Doomsday clock that represented the imminent possibility of nuclear conflict. It seemed that the hands [...]