Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of Apocalypse Management: Eisenhower and the Discourse of National Insecurity. Read more of his writing on Israel, Palestine, and American Jews on his blog.
In an age in which gloom, doom and annihilation are everywhere, it’s vital to bring genuine hope back into political life.
We continue to obsess about Iran's fantasy weapons, but pay remarkably little attention to the existing nuclear weapons in the region—Israel's.
At long last, this may be the year Washington puts the brakes on Israeli settlement expansion into Palestinian lands.