Todd Gitlin posts from Jerusalem at TPM. He is attending an internationalconference organized on the occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary. His observations are very much worth a look:Gitlin: "I've been wondering all day whether what's going on between the US and Israel on the one hand, and Iran on the other, is a game of chicken--the drag-strip game where two drivers race toward each other and the first one to turn away loses--or something worse."The whole thing is here:http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/14/iran_whats_the_game/More from Todd Gitlin in Jerusalem: on Tikkun Olan.http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/16/repair/#moreA pretty frank piece looking at which tail is wagging which dog, part of the 60th anniversary celebration.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/opinion/18goldberg.html?em&ex=1211342400&en=e0cac869c2f4d68f&ei=5087%0A

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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