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Recently, some commentators, most notably Peter Beinart in his influential 2009 essay, have said Zionism and Liberalism are drifting apart, an argument Hirsch personally disagrees with. “In general I don't like artificial dichotomies and putting people ...

Some of Ben-Ami's warnings, related to the young generation of US Jews, were already extensively presented by Peter Beinart, who shills for the tome on the back cover, along with Bernard Avishai and others. He writes about the campaign "to silence ...

President Obama's Afghanistan speeches are never really about Afghanistan. George W. Bush wanted his presidency to be about Iraq. From the beginning, President Obama has wanted his presidency not to be about Afghanistan, and so whenever he brings up the subject, he ends up talking about the other things for which he'd rather be remembered.

I'd barely followed "A Gay Girl In Damascus" until last week, when Daily Beast columnist Peter Beinart posted something to Twitter: "This is really important — this woman is a hero," with a link to a story about Amina Abdallah Arraf, ...

One more point the report asks to consider is the young generation, those who can unofficially be tagged "Beinart followers" - referring to Peter Beinart, the young Jewish American journalist who has criticized Israel. "Despite the erosion of the ...

Netanyahu, says Peter Beinart, senior political writer for “The Daily Beast” and associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York, has exacerbated the situation. “Netanyahu has always been seen by liberals as a ...

Sarah Palin showed up at the Rolling Thunder bikers' rally Sunday and said nothing, thus throwing the press into a frenzy. Now she's headed to various other patriotic sites, which will send the press into further spasms. Everywhere she goes, she's mobbed. Which leads me to this admittedly far-fetched thought experiment: if I were Sarah Palin why wouldn't I run for president?

I watched Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress with a guy named Fadi Quran. He recently graduated from Stanford, where he double-majored in physics and international relations. He lives in Ramallah, where he's starting an alternative energy company. And he just might rock our world.

A sailor throws a drowning man a life preserver. How dare you, screams the man. Because of you, people are going to think I can't swim.

Peter Bergen, CNN's security analyst announced “killing Bin Laden is the end of the war on terror”. The highly publicised death of Bin Laden is inspiring for some, but al Qaeda still exists and has spread throughout the globe. ...

On American campuses, Israel feuds are nothing new. But the City University of New York's decision to deny playwright Tony Kushner an honorary degree—and now perhaps reinstate it—is cutting-edge. It is cutting-edge because the debate over Kushner's degree is, at heart, a debate over whether people who want Israel to be a secular rather than a Jewish state can be tolerated in public life. That's a debate that Americans, and particularly American Jews, haven't had since the 1940s. But it's returning in a big way.

The Palestinians have lost faith (DailyBeast) in US ability to forge a fair deal, writes Peter Beinart. And a recent Pew report shows that Arab opinion of the United States has not improved with the pro-democracy movement in the region, and that most ...