From Haaretz, a review of Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Repression and Delegitimation of Israel by Elhanan Yakira. A review of Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine by Joel Kovel. A review of 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev. The Apostate: David Remnick on how a Zionist politician lost faith in the future. Judith Miller interviews Shimon Peres, Israel's new president, on Iran's nuclear program—and his own. Counter Tourism: Two women are stirring up anger and passions by leading trips to the West Bank that show young Jews what an Israel-sponsored outing won't. A review of Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine by Ghada Karmi and Son of the Cypresses: Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life by Meron Benvenisti. A review of The Last Resistance by Jacqueline Rose. Shlomo Avineri on Palestine as a failed state. Getting Hezbollah to behave: The best way to contain Hezbollah may be to give it some of what it says it wants.
From Asia Times, an article on the world's worst suicide bombers. An interview with Yossi Melman, coauthor of The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran. A war the Pentagon can’t win: Send the CIA after Al Qaeda in Pakistan. Bush's incompetence gives al-Qaida new life: The White House hints at military action as the terror organization regroups in northern Pakistan and the Musharraf government begins to wobble.
Iraq’s Medical Meltdown: The bombings are only the beginning of the story. What comes next for Iraq’s wounded is a frightening descent into a rapidly crumbling health-care system. The Improbable Missionary: An interview with Josh Rushing, former U.S. Military spokesman — now Al Jazeera military analyst — about bridging Arab and Western cultures and who really skews the news out of Iraq. Foreign Policy interviews former top Bush political advisor Matthew Dowd about why a party once deeply loyal to U.S. President George W. Bush is now coming apart at the seams.
The war dominates foreign-policy discussions but America must renew its attention to broader global issues: Joseph Nye reviews Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror by Ian Shapiro; Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson; Security First: for a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy by Amitai Etzioni; and The Silence of the Rational Center: Why American Foreign Policy Is Failing by Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke; and a review of books on why counterterrorism efforts must be handled delicately. American exceptionalism has served as a foundation both for isolationism — and for unilateralism: An excerpt from Power and Superpower: Global Leadership and Exceptionalism in the 21st Century by David p. Forsyth (and part 2).
