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I just posted on why I don’t think what Bill Clinton said about Benjamin Netanyahu was all that controversial. Jeff Ballabon wrote me (before I posted) to say why he thinks Clinton’s perceptions are emblematic of what he sees as the failures of Clinton’s presidency and of Oslo. I’m not endorsing it, clearly, but it’s […]

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How do you define hate? The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre tried to get at the essence of hatred by looking at an example from a very specific time: Anti-Semitism in France during World War II. According to Sartre’s Anti-Semite and Jew (1945), anti-Semitism is not the product of a twisted intellect, but rather an irrational passion on the level of lust or disgust: […]

President Obama’s U.N. speech managed to win over some of his the most outspoken Democratic critics of his Israel policies. Former New York City mayor Ed Koch — who previously urged voters to support the Republican victor, Bob Turner, in special congressional election in order to send a message of dissatisfaction with Obama’s Israel policies […]

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