Jay Bushinsky
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JERUSALEM — American diplomacy in the Middle East appears to be tied up in knots. It is fraught with contradictions and inconsistencies. This is true of the way the United States has been dealing ...
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JERUSALEM — Policymakers who have an idee fixe, i.e. a political obsession, tend to ignore or play down contradictory factors. President Obama’s advocacy of two states living side by side in peace...
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JERUSALEM — In the Western world, nations meet on the battlefield to wage war and then sit down at the conference table to make peace. But not in the Middle East. Israel fought Jordan in 1967, c...
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JERUSALEM — The list of nations that conquered and ruled this magnificent city goes back more than 3,000 years to the era of King David and even earlier. It was and still is the ultimate prize t...
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JERUSALEM — How much more proof will President Barack Obama need before he realizes that his idea of “engaging” Iran is a nonstarter? Surely he must understand that if the theocratic clique that r...
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JERUSALEM — Thank you Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It is comforting to learn from you that there will be “retaliation” if Iran carries out a nuclear strike against Israel. As one of the po...
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JERUSALEM — “Next time you’re in the neighborhood, stop by.” Those familiar words could have been said to President Obama by his Israeli friends last month when he was in Istanbul and still can be...
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JERUSALEM — Martin Gilbert, the eminent British historian, tells a dramatic story about Winston S. Churchill refusing to meet the then-new chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler, because of the Nazi l...
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JERUSALEM — Israel made a right turn, but signaled to the left. It’s new prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is who is back in the political driver’s seat for the second time in his career, did th...
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It’s as if the Israelis were out to prove that Winston Churchill was right when he said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time ...
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JERUSALEM — “Come with us and you’ll see how we kill the Zionist enemy! It’ll be a terrific shot!” Those may or could have been the words with which a Hamas-backed squad ordered to ambush a motor...
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JERUSALEM — Below the political surface here one can detect apprehension and worry about President-elect Barack Obama’s intention to engage the Islamic Republic of Iran in dialogue. The overriding...
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TEL AVIV — American election campaign slogans evidently are contagious, especially President-elect Barack Obama’s resonating “Yes We Can!” Its Hebrew translation is plastered on the sides of buses...
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JERUSALEM — Candidates for high office who summon up historical references should be sure they get them right. This applies to Israel’s ambitious Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, who is attempting ...