Haaretz

It was not always thus. Despite the characteristic sense of entitlement conveyed by many in the Israeli elite in advance of Barack Obama’s first presidential visit: “You finally made it, what took you so long?” the must-go-to-Israel clause in the U.S. presidential contract is of surprisingly recent vintage. Next week marks the ninth visit by a sitting U.S .President. But half of those previous eight trips were notched-up by Bill Clinton alone, and another two by George W. Bush in his very last year in office (yes, he waited eight years to say "Hi" in person).

At the recent debate between Daniel Gordis and Peter Beinart at Columbia University we saw two thinkers engage in a deep and informed debate. In substance there is very little between them, and the debate focused on the small but significant ...

By Don Futterman Tags: Israel Boycott West Bank Peter Beinart has been pilloried because of his call in a recent New York Times op-ed and in his newly published book, "The Crisis of Zionism," for a Zionist boycott of West Bank settlements.

Perhaps the most poignant manifestation of this distress came before a hushed audience participating in the session “Israel: Have we lost that loving feeling” that featured the controversial former editor of the New Republic Peter Beinart, ...

In late August, after extended verbal clashes between Israel and Egypt, which followed a deadly terror attack on Israel emanating from Sinai and Israel's aggressive response to it, a Saudi newspaper already foresaw "the ghost of a new crisis ... on the horizons of the two countries." No, the paper wasn't anticipating an Egyptian mob's shocking September 9 siege of Israel's Cairo embassy. Rather, it was the effects of a ban issued by the Egyptian agriculture minister on the export of lulavs, a key ingredient in the observance of the festival of Sukkot.

US journalist Peter Beinart recently posited that the children of secular Zionists who supported Israel in its first decades no longer share their parents' attachment to the state. "Instead," Beinart wrote in the New York Review of Books, ...

In an article published over the weekend in the online journal, Foreign Policy, Daniel Levy, a senior member of the Washington think tank, the New America Foundation, discloses that in a meeting of the leaders of the Quartet last week in Washington, ...

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 ...

In June last year, Peter Beinart published an article in the New York Review of Books that created quite a storm by pointing out the deep estrangement between the young generation of American Jews and Israel. ...

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 ...