By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California — There are different kinds of “leaks.” There are inadvertent leaks such as the US President’s “microphone malfunctions” in Paris with former President Sarkozy, and in Moscow with former President Medvedev, and there are deliberate leaks intended to achieve a political result, which sometimes backfire. In military intelligence parlance, [...]
By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In the last few weeks, two enormous scandals shook a usually nonchalant and numb populace and even the politicians Right and Left. We will call them “The GSA extravagance in Las Vegas” and “The Secret Service debauchery in Cartagena.” The GSA, whose very existence was hitherto known [...]
By Isaac Yetiv LA JOLLA, California–Years ago we were regaled with a “wardrobe incident” on TV : a female performer “inadvertently” uncovered her breast. Days ago, a similar kind of incident occurred. It was a “mike incident” (microphone kept on while speakers thought it was off) , showing the president of the United States whispering to the president [...]
LA JOLLA, California — Prof. Joellyn Zollman will instruct an 8-session course in modern Jewish history at the Lawrence Family JCC on Tuesdays, Jan 10- Feb. 28. Students have a choice of taking the class from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. or from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on those dates. “This class examines the [...]
97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman, Smithsonian Books, $25,99 By Marc Yaffe BETHESDA, Maryland — If you were raised in New York City, are well passed the mid-century mark, and are Jewish, you can’t help but harbor your own special memories involving the Lower East Side, in its day the largest Jewish enclave in this country. [...]
By Isaac Yetiv, PhD Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California — In the last 13 articles I attempted to tackle the most arduous problems plaguing America today, and I offered some solutions in the belief that the dire situation is not an act-of-God: the predicament is man-made, and the medicament will be man-made too. I [...]
By Isaac Yetiv Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California– The month-old painful spectacle of Washington partners-in-government fighting each other on “raising the debt limit,”something that should have never occurred in the first place, has strengthened my belief, expressed in a previous column, that the system as presently constituted is broke and, as a result, we [...]
By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California — The Founding Fathers, fearful of “tyranny,” created, intentionally, a system of “divided government” to make impossible the concentration of power in the hands of one man or one group. But today, because of the great divisions in our society, the fierce partisanship and factionalism have led [...]
By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California — Most people identify the “Middle-East problems” with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but that is only one of them, and not the most dangerous to peace and stability in the region and in the world. Today, the two poles of potential disaster for the security of the United States [...]
By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California–In the last 65 years, a dozen U.S. presidents, Democrats and Republicans and more than a dozen Israeli Prime Ministers from the Left and from the Right repeatedly offered substantive concessions to the Arabs in order to reach a modus vivendi for a peaceful coexistence of Arabs and Jews [...]
