Obama, Israel and American Jews
Commentary asked “31 prominent American Jews” to respond to these questions: “Can Obama’s Jewish supporters act in a way that will change the unmistakable direction of current American policy emanating...
View ArticleObama’s Mideast priorities
On April 22, I appeared on a panel organized by The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, entitled “The Obama Administration and the Middle East: Setting Priorities, Taking Action.” Fellow...
View ArticleA Zero-Sum Game
This is Martin Kramer’s contribution to a roundtable on “Obama in the Mideast” organized by Lee Smith for Tablet Magazine. Other contributers: Elliott Abrams, Ramin Ahmadi, Andrew Exum, Dore Gold,...
View ArticleAyatollah Fadlallah dies
Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah has passed away in Beirut at the age of 74. He had been in poor health for some years, suffering from diabetes and heart problems. Fadlallah became famous...
View ArticleThe Washington Institute awards prizes
The 2010 Washington Institute Book Prize, which I’ve promoted here before, has been awarded. This is from the Institute’s prize announcement: From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust,...
View ArticleStart with two Palestinians
In an interview in February 2003, Edward Said said this: An outrageous Israeli, Martin Kramer, uses his Web site to attack everybody who says anything he doesn’t like. For example, he has described...
View ArticleIf Iran Gets the Bomb
Michael J. Totten, probably the most widely read blogger on the Middle East, has just published an interview with me, conducted in September. I sought out Martin Kramer in Jerusalem because I knew he...
View ArticleGeorge Kennan, Iran hawk
In the November issue of Foreign Policy, Karim Sadjadpour, Iran analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, published an essay entitled “The Sources of Soviet Iranian Conduct.” Until...
View ArticleSo you’re not on Facebook
As a subscriber to my blog, Sandbox, you receive every post by email or rss syndication. You also know that I blog intermittently. (Other duties keep me busy for now.) What you may not know is that I...
View ArticleSubmit your winner by May 1
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has issued its last call for submissions for the 2011 fourth annual Washington Institute Book Prize. The prize is awarded to three outstanding new books...
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