Mitchell Cohen

The following column is part of a series. For more, go to Liberal Zionists Speak Out.

There are several reasons why I identify as a Zionist, more specifically as a Zionist of the left, even though I do not live in Israel. Each reason, in its own way,...

I am shocked -- shocked! -- to learn that intelligence services use fraudulent passports and stolen identities.

Who would have imagined it? Nobody, certainly, had Israel's Mossad not been accused recently of subterfuge in order to assassinate in Dubai a leading figure of Hamas, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. I am heartened that...

Can we learn something from Aristotle about Israeli-Palestinian arguments? I don't mean about obvious issues like who violated whose rights some twenty-three centuries after this philosopher died. I mean about who can persuade whom of what. In Aristotle's handbook On Rhetoric, we read this suggestion: a speaker is always more...

Nothing is more urgent than a successful Obama presidency. A lot needs fixing, and he needs considerable leeway. He won thanks to coalition-building, economic crisis, and Bush's failures, not because everyone saw liberal light. Success depends on turning his coalition into a durable working alliance - which means his varied...