Gershom Gorenberg My new column is up at The American Prospect: Bashar al-Assad has not yet fallen. I note this only because of the tone of inevitability in some news reports on Syria’s civil war. The downfall of Tunisia’s Ben Ali, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, and Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi may be no more predictive than a [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg In my latest American Prospect column, I show that the Republican candidates for president or either incompetent or delusional in their grasp of world affairs. But which is it: Are they D students, or do they live in an alternate universe? And which one’s delusions put him the most parsecs from Earth? You, [...]

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The contradiction at the heart of Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch’s ruling on occupation Gershom Gorenberg My new column is up at The American Prospect: I’d really like to be angry at Dorit Beinisch, the chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court. On the eve of her retirement, Beinisch abandoned her role of pushing the Israeli [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg The Israeli political right is wont to argue that Israel’s only real problem is PR. We’re doing the all the right things; we’re the only real democracy in the Middle East; we want peace and the Palestinians don’t, they proved that in 1947 when they rejected the partition plan and – so goes [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg My new column is up at The American Prospect: The mob numbered about 200 young and angry people. Some had covered their faces. They gathered on a West Bank road near midnight and hurled stones at passing cars. Israeli troops, including the commander of the division in charge of the area and his [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg The following is a response to two pieces that appeared at +972, and is cross-posted there. Links to Dana’s and Sheizaf’s pieces appear in the body of my reply. Dana’s reply to me is below, followed by my reply to him, which is not yet up at +972.   I’ve recently read Joseph’s [...]

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The lastest issue of Newsweek has a spread on on its writers’ choices for the top 10 books of the year. The Unmaking of Israel is on the list, picked by Peter Beinart: The online version is the Daily Beast’s longer listing of top reads for the year. If you’re in Israel and can’t find [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg Excerpts from my new column at Hadassah Magazine: Dear L——, Please don’t give up on Israel. And please give me a chance to explain before you hit the delete button. I know, your last e-mail virtually asked me not to write this one. You said that you were tired of news about growing [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg My new column is up at The American Prospect: The women banter with the soldiers and get through the checkpoint carrying bombs in their handbags. We see them in black and white, which sharpens the lines in their faces and shows their fear more starkly. They arrive at their target. One enters a [...]

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My new oped article is up at The New York Times: “CLEARLY, there’s a war here, sometimes even worse than the one in Samaria,” the yeshiva student said. “It’s not a war with guns. It’s a war of light against darkness.” We were sitting in the mixed Jewish-Arab town of Acre in Israel. The war [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg Another happy opportunity to showcase the work of my erstwhile students, who have been producing fantastic work (even if I’m a bit late in posting some of it): “The battlefront that I see is not between Islam and the West or Muslims and America but between all of the moderates and all of [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg My latest column is up at The American Prospect: “He’s lying! He’s lying!” the man at the back of the hall shouted, in a tone as desperate as it was angry. “He hasn’t read the Geneva Conventions. You haven’t read them, so you don’t know he’s lying.” The primary object of his rage [...]

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