Entries Tagged as ‘The Middle East’

February 10, 2009

Cause and Effect in the Israeli Elections

In 2006, both the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority went to the polls. The contrast between the results of those two elections help illustrate why we, two years later, find ourselves in an even worse position than we did then and the likely result of today’s Israeli election.
In Israel, the election was preceded [...]

September 26, 2008

Obama On The Middle East

One of the weird things about American politics is that though the Republicans are perceived to be more pro-Israel and Jews are perceived to hold Israel as their most important issue, Jews overwhelmingly vote Democratic. There was an interesting article about this in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) a while back.
For Jews who actually are [...]