New single from West and Jay-Z disses Drake; will he respond? Plus Abbas declares emergency, Beck goes really tasteless, and more in the news U.N. flotilla report delayed again so that negotiations can continue  | |  The Israeli left has collapsed in the last decade. But the right, despite its successes, is dying, too, brought down by Russian-imported maximalism and American-imported political consultants. Anyone following Israeli politics is likely, at some point, to come across the following brief history of the past decade: After the collapse of the 2000 Camp David talks—a catastrophe generated, depending on one's worldview, either by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's inflexibility or by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's incompetence—the majority of Israelis drifted rightward, and the left, once a robust voting bloc, melted into thin air. More  | Two new books, The Druggist of Auschwitz and Reluctant Accomplice, offer true stories of average citizens' divergent responses to Nazi rule. They help us examine our own rationalization of genocide. More |  | Ammiel Alcalay's new book—a challenging collection of notes, photographs, and diary entries he wrote in the 1970s—shows the young scholar and experimental poet through the eyes of his older self More | |
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