Netanyahu’s House: Knowing Your Audience
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 12th, 2011 4:36 am by HL
Netanyahu’s House: Knowing Your Audience
Anyone with a shred of knowledge about the Middle East conflict knows that yesterday’s performance alienated its most critical audience. I am not speaking about Netanyahu’s performance. He played the Israeli center, American Jews, and American media like Isaac Stern…
Gates’s Swan Song: Rhetoric Versus Reality
Today Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave what was billed in some circles as his “last major policy speech.” He chose to do so at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a think tank whose analysts have been highly critical of…
Bibi Caves At AIPAC
That was one real nothing of a speech Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered to a crowd of 10,000 at AIPAC who were hanging on every word. He praised President Obama. In fact, he linked himself to Obama, talking about the common…