Yourish.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Emanuele Ottolenghi and Noah Pollak have already responded to Roger Cohen’s Try Tough Love Hillary. Cohen argues that peace - that is necessary for Israel - can only be achieved if Israel cedes all the land demanded by the Arab world for a “just” peace. And for Israel to make those necessary concessions, it [...]
Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | yesterday
Emanuele Ottolenghi and Noah Pollak have already responded to Roger Cohen's Try Tough Love Hillary. Cohen argues that peace - that is necessary for Israel - can only be achieved if Israel cedes all the land demanded by the Arab world for a "just" peace. And for Israel to make those necessary concessions, it needs to be pressured by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. There's one...
Rhapsodyinbooks's Weblog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
In today’s New York Times, Op-Ed columnist Roger Cohen reviews outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s thoughts on Israel. Cohen writes the following: “In a frank September interview with the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, reprinted this month by The New York Review of Books, the Israeli leader chose to exit with a mea culpa for [...]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
U.S. policy toward Israel has ensured the country's survival at a heavy price.
Taterhaid (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Excerpt from link: Of the 770 detainees grabbed here and there and flown to Guantánamo, only 23 have ever been charged with a crime. Of the more than 500 so far released, many traumatized by those “enhanced” techniques, not one has received an apology or compensation for their season in hell. What they got on release was a single piece of paper from the American government. A U.S. official met one...
Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
NY Times columnist and former conservative Roger Cohen is thankful today. It’s Thanksgiving. I’m thankful for many things right now, despite the stock market, and first among them is the fact that the next U.S. commander in chief is a...
University of Alberta Faculty of La (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
My favorite part of the OpEd:"What they got on release was a single piece of paper from the American government. A U.S. official met one of the dozens of Afghans now released from Guantánamo and was so appalled by this...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
'The deciding official in the U.S. has made a decision about what will happen to you.'
My Right Word (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yes, Be Tough in the Mideast, but Against the Right Target To the Editor: Re “ Try Tough Love, Hillary ,” by Roger Cohen (column, The New York Times on the Web, Dec. 1): Mr. Cohen states that Israel’s “moral authority is already compromised by a 40-year occupation.” There may indeed be questions as to the morality of how Israel has handled its occupation of Palestinian lands. There...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
An encouraging sign, from the International Herald Tribune’s Roger Cohen, that the Jewish state is dealing itself out of a viable future: Imagine Ehud Olmert, the outgoing Israeli prime minister, saying this to Barack Obama: “The United States has been wrong to write Israel a blank check every year; wrong to turn a blind eye to the settlements [...]
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Earlier today I provided links to two columns, one by William Kristol and one by Roger Cohen, both found in today's New York Times. The purpose was to highlight the contrast in language and rhetoric of the two men writing about conflicts. Here's a link to an Andrew Sullivan Daily Dish excerpt from a Juan Cole piece which can be read as a response to Kristol's war mongering message. It's...
Daled Amos (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Roger Cohen of The New York Times offers an op-ed this morning, urging Try Tough Love, Hillary with Israel when she assumes the post of Secretary of State. Cohen refers to an interview Olmert gave to Yedioth Ahronoth, later translated for The New York Review of Books, where he condemns Israel's policies. Cohen writes: Those policies have been encouraged by the Bush administration,...
Amspecblog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Roger Cohen urges presumed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to show "tough love" toward Israel in his latest column . His argument rests on the premise that if only Israel compromises more --withdraws from the West Bank and East Jerusalem -- there can be peace. The article is based around some comments made by outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whose administration was an abject...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
By Ehud Olmert New York Review of Books (TM Note: see Roger Cohen piece, below.) On the eve of the Jewish New Year, Israel's most popular daily newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, published an extended interview of lame-duck prime minister Ehud Olmert by journalists Nahum Barnea and Shimon Shiffer. Olmert is a former mayor of Jerusalem (1993–2003), member of the Knesset, and cabinet-level official....
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
By Roger Cohen NYT Imagine Ehud Olmert, the outgoing Israeli prime minister, saying this to Barack Obama: “The United States has been wrong to write Israel a blank check every year; wrong to turn a blind eye to the settlements in the West Bank; wrong not to be more explicit about the need to divide Jerusalem; wrong to equip us with weaponry so sophisticated we now believe military might...
