Exactly 21 years ago, in November, 1994, during the heady days of the Oslo Accords, I cut my political teeth working against the stationing of U.S. troops on the Golan Heights. This seemingly innocuous move on the part of the American government under President Bill Clinton was in actuality a ruse to sweeten a bitter deal for an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan. I had the honor off working very closely with what the columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak ad called, “Likud’s Gang of Three”, Yoram Ettinger, Yossi Ben Aharon, and Yigal Carmon. This epithet was not given as a compliment. So seduced were they by the clarion call of peace that Evans and Novak could not possibly allow themselves to see beyond petty, domestic Israeli politics of Labor versus Likud, and would not allow themselves to have an open and free discussion about the merits of such a deal for the interests of the United Sates. Looking now at the chaos that is Syria, I am so grateful...(Read Full Article)