Israel Relies on Evangelicals at its Moral and Political Peril
Support from evangelical Christians was always a narrow reed on which to rest Israel's fortunes in America, and now the group is collapsing. More »
Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, Goldberg also writes the magazine's advice column. More
Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent, and the Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Previously, he served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He has also written for the Jewish Daily Forward, and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.
His book Prisoners was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy. Goldberg rthe recipient of the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism. He is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human-rights reporting; and the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism. He is also the recipient of 2005's Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize.
In 2001, Goldberg was appointed the Syrkin Fellow in Letters of the Jerusalem Foundation, and in 2002 he became a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
Support from evangelical Christians was always a narrow reed on which to rest Israel's fortunes in America, and now the group is collapsing. More »
Since he didn't include so much of the material in his story, I thought I would simply post my correspondence with Seitz-Wald here. More »
Avigdor Lieberman, who is taking a temporary leave of absence from driving Israel into the sea while he settles his legal affairs, has done it again. More »
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Like certain other people in Washington, I'm trying to make my own pivot to Asia. More »
Inaction on Syria doesn't automatically translate to inaction on Iran. More »
This week brings yet another op-ed from The Times calling for the creation of "Isratine" (the coinage of a certain Muammar Qaddafi, whose career as an opinion writer was cut short by the Libyan people), this one from Saree Makdisi, an English professor at UCLA To be fair to Makdisi, the Israeli right handed him his narrative, by making it as difficult as humanly possible to imagine the creation of a Palestinian on the West Bank and in Gaza. I, too, have argued… More »
The assertion, in particular, that our country's loosened concealed-carry laws cause more spontaneous, emotion-driven shootings, isn't supported by the facts. More »
Anxiety is increasing about the prospect of a desperate Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against his rapidly proliferating enemies. More »
Like most people, I would prefer to see President Obama nominate Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for secretary of state (and if not Duncan, then Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood), but if this doesn't come to pass, it seems to me that Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (the "embattled" U.N. ambassador, in journalese), stands a decent chance of being very good in the job. Rice wouldn't be the best nominee -- the best candidates seldom, if… More »
How do we reduce gun crime and Aurora-style mass shootings when Americans already own nearly 300 million firearms? Maybe by allowing more people to carry them.
Maybe the quickest way for Palestinians to achieve independence in Gaza and the West Bank is to give up their dreams of independence. More »
Strong words from Muslim Brotherhood expert Eric Trager. More »
She smuggled weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto and, after improbably surviving the Shoah, made sure we remembered what had happened. More »
The Israeli body count isn't low because Hamas is trying to minimize casualties. Quite the opposite. More »
Some updates, and questions answered. More »
There are many temptations to send in troops, but it's still a bad idea. More »
Some observations as the Gaza crisis continues to unfold. More »
The Israeli government has taken to Twitter, and other online platforms, to brag about killing its enemies. More »
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