Why Ayalon's video matters

Jonathan Tobin makes an important point about the importance of Danny Ayalon's (seen here shaking hands with Saudi Arabia's Turki al-Faisal who later claimed he didn't shake hands with Ayalon) video. This is from the first link. But for too long, Israel and even most of its defenders in the United States have been so intent on trying to appear reasonable, they have appeared to concede the

Marty Peretz's epiphany: Jordan is Palestine

The New Republic's editor emeritus, Martin Peretz, has written a lengthy journal which, but for his assertion that Israel should not keep Judea and Samaria, and should instead 'allow' them to confederate with Jordan, includes many awakenings to reality.The thick-with-ads, oh-so gracefully written weekly [The New Yorker. CiJ] is a model of fashionable views on Israel. David Remnick, its editor,

Pressing the panic button in Jordan?

A Kuwaiti paper reported last week that Jordan will vote against the creation of a 'Palestinian' reichlet if it comes up for a vote in the UN General Assembly in September. On the other hand, Jordan is nearing a crossroads in its attitude toward the Palestinians. In my book, The Political Legacy of King Hussein (2004), I analyze the advantages that Hussein could have found in losing of the West