Nation Topics - Yitzhak Rabin | The Nation

The irrational attack on Muslims everywhere by the GOP’s leadership is not only deeply subversive with regard to the American ideal of religious tolerance but also poses a profound threat to our national security.

The United States, Israel and the failure of the Western way of war.

As Israel wages an international battle for its legitimacy, a new book details the country’s secret alliance with South Africa’s apartheid regime.

Taylor Branch and a president's prodigious appetite for vindication before the bar of history.

Tom Dine, for thirteen years head of AIPAC, now works for a two-state solution and on improving US-Syrian relations.

Israeli writers and intellectuals look at their nation and its problems in a more nuanced and realistic way than most Americans.

The media was enthused, but ordinary Israelis, cynical about their own political leaders, gave Obama a muted reception. The refrain here is "No, they can't," not "Yes, he can."

Sixty years after the founding of the State of Israel, the long conflict with the Palestinians, and with the Arab world at large, casts a pall over Israeli life.

Bill Clinton's foreign policy record, on which his wife is running, was anything but stellar.

US diplomacy in the Middle East has been held hostage by a refusal to engage with these two popular movements.