Benjamin Tua

Benjamin Tua served during his foreign service career at the State Department in Brazil, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lesotho, and the Soviet Union and its successor states. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Kyrgyzstan, the US Representative in the Assistance Group to Chechnya of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and Head of the Crimea Office of the OSCE Mission to Ukraine. Washington assignments included the Office of Soviet Union Affairs and the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center. He was the State Department Representative to the negotiations on the Chemical Weapons Convention 1985-87 and the Arms Control Analyst in the Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia policy office of the Secretary of Defense 1994-95.

Israel/ Palestine

To Finally Settle the Israel-Palestine Conflict, give it to the UN Security Council

Benjamin Tua

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – In the midst of the post-October 7 war in Gaza, President Biden summarized basic administration markers and policy positions for dealing with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The president’s views, as presented in the November 19 Washington Post — some also before and since the nineteenth — include: The Palestinian […]

Israel/ Palestine

Reclaiming Judaism from the Lion’s Den: Zionism, Israel, and the Palestinians

Benjamin Tua

Book Reviw Susie Linfield’s, The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky,”(Yale University Press) and Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation, (Olive Branch Press), edited by Carolyn L. Karcher, published around the same time in 2019, are very different books. Linfield’s deeply researched volume surveys with nuance and […]