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Rick Richman, the blogger who blogs Jewish Current Issues - read his most recent, The Nebech Strategy, it's excellent - has a letter in the July-August issue of Commentary magazine. He takes a novel approach to the idea of a referendum. A referendum on disengagement should have been held because then Israel would have been able to force the Palestinians to do the same on peace with Israel. This would have undermined consistent Palestinian leader's kvetch that he wasn't strong enough to do this or that and forced him to bring the whole population behind him.
The letters section has Norman Podhoretz taking on critics of his "Bush, Sharon, My Daughter and Me." (My take on the article was here.) Podhoretz calls Rick "skillful" and makes me regret that I didn't write my letter to Commentary on the subject!
Another worthy article - though I didn't read the whole thing - is "Neoconservative Convergence" by Charles Krauthammer that argues "we're all neoconservatives" now. The conclusions of which would be of particular interest (for different reasons) to Pillage Idiot and Mystery Achievement based on previous posts or views expressed.
I haven't even started Efraim Karsh's "Columbia and the Academic Intifada" or Daniel Johnson's "How to think about the Crusades."