For now, blaming Palestinians for their misery is nothing more than a pretext for the continuation of a colonialist enterprise that every other democracy in the world has relegated to a shameful past.
Bradley Burston | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
For Israel's sake, for the Palestinians' sake, and for the good of his presidency, the administration must radically reassess its approach to the Mideast conflict.
Bradley Burston | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
We don't need them. They'll never see things our way, no matter what. Let them go. It's a new Israeli approach which borrows from the very worst of our aging instincts.
Bradley Burston | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
I put off reading the Goldstone report the same way I put off scheduling a colonoscopy. I now realize it was for many of the same reasons. You know it's going to be tremendously uncomfortable, you don't want to know what they're going to find, and the consequences could be life-threatening.
Bradley Burston | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
There is something in Ajami's nuance that helps explain why the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel has proven a wholesale failure.
Bradley Burston | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
Terrorism remains central to Israel's explanations of many of the most morally problematic of its policies, including the siege of Gaza and restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank.
Bradley Burston | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
Seldom have the vital signs of Arab-Israeli diplomacy read more bleak. Is a permanently broken peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians a foregone conclusion?
Bradley Burston | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
There is a sense that the transgressions of Israelis are so grave that they have lost their right to grieve over their own very real tragedies.
Bradley Burston | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
Lord, whose great gift and whose most murderous creation was the human being, help us find the human in the Other, hated from habit and from afar.
Bradley Burston | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
You are in danger of losing critical support for progress toward a two-state solution. Though you have been president for only five months, you are fast running out of time.
Bradley Burston | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
Settlement in remote areas has siphoned off critically needed funds for infrastructure, housing and social welfare in central Israel, as well as funds for dangerous roadways on which 440 died last year.
Bradley Burston | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
Fascism thrives on legality, it lawyers up every chance it gets, the better to use any institution of democracy to quietly and methodically corrupt and demolish every institution of democracy.
Bradley Burston | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
It's up to a Jewish state to recognize when a policy of collective punishment is self-defeating as well as immoral, and to call a halt. It's up to this Jewish state to redefine patriotism.
Bradley Burston | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
Everyone who lives here is a hostage. We know it, even if we are often surprised anew by the specific people who are currently holding us hostage, staving off progress toward a future peace.
Bradley Burston | Posted 07.23.2009 | World
West Bank settlements were built to be explicit, intentional, physical, literal obstacles to any peace process that would include ceding West Bank land to Palestinians.
Bradley Burston | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
The people in Tehran's streets have made it possible to begin to see past Ahmadinejad. I have to get used to Iran not as a cartoon bully, but as my neighbor. It is a nation of people, as we are.
Bradley Burston | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
Even if a recount should topple Ahmadinejad, Mousavi is firmly on record as supporting the nuclear program, and opposing changes aimed at barring Iran from using it to produce weaponry.
Bradley Burston | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
It's become a fashion, here and abroad: Jews who are convinced that they love Israel more than the rest of us have told anyone who would listen that one way to express love of the Jewish state is to revile Barack Obama.
Bradley Burston | Posted 06.25.2009 | Entertainment
Many Americans view Kris Allen as holding the fort against the darkness of diversity and/or non-Christianity.
Bradley Burston | Posted 06.18.2009 | World
Washington and the world have allowed Israel and the Palestinians to run off the rails in whatever direction they happen to see fit at the moment. Why? They're afraid of them.
Bradley Burston | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
It was late, maybe midnight When we opened the door for Elijah Fully expecting Aunt Ida, in sable. But it was Pharaoh that walked in to the wine and the whining.
Bradley Burston | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media
Originally appeared on haaretz.com I was just in the States, speaking to members of Ameinu, an organization which, the times notwithstanding, remai...
Bradley Burston | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
In all the blindingly complex bazaar of the Middle East equation, it really comes down to one word: rockets.
Bradley Burston | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
The way forward in the Middle East: Keep back channels open to Tehran, while supporting Netanyahu, should he pick up with Syria.
Bradley Burston | Posted 03.26.2009 | Entertainment
Waltz with Bashir was not made for Hollywood, it was made for human beings. It was made for the people who went through the horror it shows.
Henry Siegman | Posted 11.06.2009 | World