Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide

Rhodes also suggested that disagreement between the president and his advisers over Syria was less dramatic than contemporaneous news accounts portrayed it to be. “I think, candidly, that a lot of people have used this debate to position themselves for posterity as being for doing something in Syria when in fact it wouldn’t have made much differenc

Successive governments were no less successful at containing this small but ugly phenomenon than they were at limiting the power of the Haredi community. In ways that no preeminent Zionist thinker had foreseen, the Jewish return to physical power had spawned an ugly, racist, and dangerous offshoot; and no matter how small it was, Israel would have

In fact, the rate of attacks and the casualty count were higher than ever before.3 The pretense that Oslo was anything but an abject failure was becoming increasingly difficult to sustain.

“We will make agreements with the devil to save Jews from persecution and to secure the future of this state.”