Appointed Times
Barnett R. RubinWritings from Barnett Rubin on Israel/Palestine, Afghanistan, and more. The stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
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Who is Trump negotiating with?
It appears to be puzzling that Trump claims to be negotiating directly with Iranian decision makers, while the apparent decision makers themselves deny it. Some nay-sayers claim that Trump is just making things up. But a deeper look reveals...
Restoring American Soft Power
Trita Parsi points out:
Iran’s latest AI Lego video marks a significant pivot. Instead of taunting the US military, it reflects a new chapter in which Tehran will seek peace by reaching out directly to the American people, bypassing the...
From the River to the Sea, Everyone Must be Free
On May 5, Palestinian supporters protested at the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, which was hosting a real estate fair featuring properties in the occupied territories that before 1967 constituted the West Bank of the Kingdom of Jordan. A...
The Angel of History Reimagined
In late September 1940, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin took his own life at the age of forty-eight. Having fled Nazi Germany, he reached Portbou, on the Franco-Spanish border, after crossing the Pyrenees f...
Trump consults the Oracle of Delphi
[Updated 14:30 7 March2026]
Donald Trump has written that “a great civilization will die tonight.” Bombing of bridges and power plants in Iran was scheduled to start in about five and a half hours from now (20:00 EDT) as I am writing this....
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Barnett R. Rubin is a political scientist who has worked at Yale, Columbia, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center on International Cooperation at NYU, the U.N. and the U.S. State .Department. He now writes on Gaza and related matters.
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