Russia is seeking a greater role in Middle East peacemaking, as a recent visit to Moscow by the Palestinian Authority president makes clear. But Israel isn’t interested in abandoning its main ally, the United States, as Mideast mediator.
In his new and often hilarious memoir, “Shut Up I’m Talking,” Gregory Levey, a former speech writer for Israel’s U.N. mission, paints a rich portrait of a diplomatic effort so ferociously inept that no one should ever again wonder why Israel seems incapab