Jay Bushinsky
Netanyahu’s settlement proposal a step backward
3 months ago | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — To call Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “settlement freeze” a diplomatic nonstarter or a political fake-out would be an understatement. Despite the Obama administration’s accolades...
Peace talks resumption seems elusive following Clinton remarks
4 months ago | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...
A Hamas win in West Bank election spells trouble for Obama’s peace posture
5 months ago | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Settlements were a political mistake, but it’s a done deal
6 months ago | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
P.A. poised to take easy road to Jerusalem conquest
7 months ago | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
 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...
Obama’s Iran policy doomed to failure, history shows
8 months ago | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Clarifications needed as West Bank, settlement issues
9 months ago | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Yoo-hoo, Mr. President! Please come to Israel
by Jay Bushinsky
9 months ago | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Recognizing the signs of a tyrant
by Jay Bushinsky
10 months ago | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Bibi brings plenty to discuss on first stateside visit as PM
by Jay Bushinsky
11 months ago | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Israel’s election mess
by Jay Bushinsky
12 months ago | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...
To air or not to air: What footage is appropriate for TV
by Jay Bushinsky
13 months ago | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Musings on Obama’s diplomatic team and the Middle East
by Jay Bushinsky
14 months ago | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
New slogan doesn’t equal change
by Jay Bushinsky
15 months ago | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Historical blunders bode ill for would-be world leaders
by Jay Bushinsky
17 months ago | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...