International Guarantees Are No Substitute for Durable Peace Treaties
There’s no guarantee that can guarantee a guarantee.
May 9, 2017
International Guarantees Are No Substitute for Durable Peace Treaties
There’s no guarantee that can guarantee a guarantee.
The Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin famously told American diplomats, who were offering international security reassurances to back up a putative peace deal with the Palestinians, that “there is no guarantee that can guarantee a guarantee.” This has not prevented similar arrangements from being proposed ever since. But, as David Makovsky notes, Israel had learned Begin’s dictum the hard way in 1967:
May 9, 2017
Last Week Left Mahmoud Abbas Strengthened and Hamas Weakened
A White House visit and a public-relations stunt.
The Executive Order on Religious Liberty Is Feeble and Ineffective
“A vague and unworkable mishmash that has the potential to make the problem worse.”
The Making of a New York Jewish Intellectual
Making It turns 50.
Love Your Neighbor as Yourself—Whatever His Religion
Leviticus’ universal commandment.