More in ‘Menachem Begin’

Middle East

What Would Begin Do?

Seeing the Iranian nuclear threat through the lens of Osirak
By Seth Lipsky | 7:00 AM Oct 7, 2009

The latest disclosure in respect of Iran’s work on an atomic bomb—the International Atomic Energy Agency says the mullahs have the technical data needed to make a weapon—has me thinking about what happened in 1981, when Israel sent a flight of American-built warplanes to destroy a reactor that Iraq was building as part of a ...

Middle East

Photo Ops

As Obama sits down with Netanyahu and Abbas, a brief history of the trilateral summit
By Allison Hoffman | 7:00 AM Sep 22, 2009

This morning, President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet jointly for the first time with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting, at the Waldorf-Astoria, was hastily announced Saturday and billed with very low expectations from all sides, with both Israeli and Palestinian officials warning that no one should ...