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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...

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Obama’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...

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A 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,...

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Ayatollah 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...

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The 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,...

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Start 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...

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If 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...

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George 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...

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So 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...

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Submit 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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