China Can Never Fully Replace America as a Saudi Ally
A result neither Washington nor Riyadh should desire.
December 19, 2022
An Insider’s History of Five Decades of AIPAC
Changing attitudes toward Israel, and changes in American politics, produced constant challenges.
When Lenny Ben-David first began working for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in 1972, it was less than a decade old, and had a staff of about ten people and a shoestring budget. Since then, AIPAC has grown immensely, but has repeatedly had to change its tactics to keep up with a changing political climate, while its influence waxed and waned. Ben-David provides a richly detailed account of how this happened, and notes that some of the most profound challenges the organization wrestled with had little to do with attitudes toward the Jewish state:
December 19, 2022
Israel’s Proposed Sex-Segregation Law Would Expand, Not Restrict, Freedom of Association
There’s no plan to impose religious strictures on the secular public.
What Percy Bysshe Shelley Can Teach Us about Hanukkah
“Ozymandias” is a story not only of Egypt, but of nation after nation throughout history—except one.
What Biblical Heroes Can Teach That Philosophers Cannot
The taming of the shrewd.
An Insider’s History of Five Decades of AIPAC
Changing attitudes toward Israel, and changes in American politics, produced constant challenges.