A New Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian ConflictIsrael Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated
In the 76 years since the founding of the modern state of Israel, the conflict with its Arab neighbors has consumed an enormous amount of the attention of national leaders, international organizations, diplomats, academics, and journalists. This conflict, which changed after the Israel-Egypt peace treaty of 1979 from one between and among sovereign states to a […]
Israel’s Democracy and the Prophets of Doom The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel, Promise Unfulfilled
The story is told of an American journalist who went to Israel for a three-day visit. When asked on the second day what she was writing, she replied, ‘a book with the title: “Israel, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.”’ Dahlia Scheindlin is the opposite of that journalist. For 25 years, she has lived and worked in […]
The Rise and Fall of America’s Diplomats
The Voice of the Foreign Service: A History of the American Foreign Service Association at 100
by Harry W. Kopp
The Voice of the Foreign Service: A History of the American Foreign Service Association at 100
by Harry W. Kopp
In his short story “Mosby’s Memoirs,” which was based on the life of the conservative scholar and former State Department official Willmoore Kendall, Saul Bellow expressed his disdain for foreign policy mandarins: “…the Foreign Service is staffed by rejects of the power structure. Young gentlemen from good Eastern colleges who couldn’t make it as Wall […]
