Blowing Smoke About Making Deadly Gas
With the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) awaiting action by the U.S. Senate, the treaty's supporters are asserting that the Tokyo...
Douglas Feith
Policing the Golan? No
American and Israeli officials say they expect U.S. troops to serve as peacekeepers or monitors on the Golan Heights in...
Toxic treaty: how not to ban chemical weapons
This summer, in addition to its high-profile push for health care and crime legislation, the Clinton administration is quietly pressing...
The East Bank: Is Israel a Jewish settlement?
April 13 has come and gone, and the Israeli military withdrawal from Jericho and the Gaza Strip that was supposed...
Assessing Risk in The Israeli-PLO Deal
Evaluating the Israel-PLO agreement requires weighing hopes against risks, for Israel's concessions could someday endanger its security. The hopeful argument...
A mandate for Israel
Has a conflict evolved into peace when fighting between the opposing armies has ceased? In one sense, yes; but a...
The Big Picture Is Bad
EVALUATING the Israel-PLO agreement requires weighing hopes against risks, for Israel's concessions could someday endanger its security. The hopeful argument...
Land for Peace IV: the Sorry Sequel
THE theme of the Bush administration's Arab-Israeli diplomatic initiative is "land for peace." The concept: the Arab powers would not...
Why Are We in League With a Dictator?
Douglas Feith, a partner in D.C.'s Feith & Zell, served as deputy assistant secretary of defense and as a Middle...
Of Lions, Lambs, and Ostriches
THE CURRENT controversy about President Bush's Middle East peace diplomacy brings to mind an old Soviet story about a foreigner...