Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide

Most egregiously from our perspective, Goldstone’s mission equated Israel, a democratic state with an independent judiciary, and Hamas, a terrorist organization with a covenant calling for Israel’s destruction and the annihilation of every Jew worldwide.

The president’s Cairo speech—that foundational document—offered America’s hand to Muslim leaders who were rooted in Islam and democratically voted into office. The Brotherhood met those criteria and would win at the polls, Israeli experts were certain.

More than half a million Jews now lived beyond what was commonly called the 1967 borders, but which were in fact the armistice lines delineated in 1949 after Israel’s War of Independence.

When, in 2006, the Palestinians went to the polls, a majority voted for Hamas, the terrorist group that the Bush administration insisted on including on the ballot.

majority wanted to see the Palestinians enjoy the right to self-determination, but not at the cost of denying Israelis the most fundamental right: to life. They looked around the Middle East and saw the overthrow of corrupt, nonelected Arab rulers and their replacement by Islamist radicals.

all underscored the fact that we faced identical enemies. Defeating them required the closest U.S.-Israeli cooperation.

Investigations into Palestinian Authority corruption or Abbas’s rejection of peace offers are simply quashed, while exposés of Israeli intransigence merit headlines. Friedman believes the reason is anti-Semitism, the willingness to associate Jews with the worst traits in today’s world, namely, militarism, colonialism, and racism.

the dangers were not merely military, to my mind, but also conceptual. Like Assad before them, Iran’s problematic leaders had suddenly become part of the solution, in the process legitimizing their bid for regional rule. In exchange for merely delaying its program, Iran received international recognition of its right to remain a nuclear breakout st

Reflecting, perhaps, centuries of Jewish wandering, the Jewish State did not care how many passports its ambassadors held. But not the United States. By federal law, any American who officially served a foreign country had to renounce her or his U.S. citizenship.