I don’t know Israeli society, and I would like to be wrong about the degree of extremism in it, but it’s hard to explain the endless colonization of the West Bank without concluding that extremists have power in that society….
From the Palestinian media: “A report published by the United Nations this week revealed that in spite of Israeli vows to ease restrictions on movement in the West Bank, the Israeli army increased the number of roadblocks and search points.”…
Chris Matthews inched up to the line on the neoconservatives tonight in a conversation with Pat Buchanan about the briefing of Sarah Palin. Don’t you think, Matthews said, that McCain’s foreign policy guru Randy Scheunemann is scripting her on this…
I just learned that the new Israel lobby, J Street, played a key role in dealing that astonishing defeat to AIPAC in Congress last week–in which a coalition of peace groups and religious groups spearheaded by the National Iranian American…
Well the NY Sun is no more. Today’s its last issue. Seth Lipsky announced that he could not find another partner, for that fearsome front line of Steinhardt, Hertog, Kovner, and Tisch. Israel is everything to Steinhardt and Hertog. “I…
The UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, begins meeting in Vienna with the focus on Iran. But it has also put Israeli nukes on the agenda, at the request of Israel’s Arab neighbors. You see: Israel is not the only country…
Two journalists liken Israel’s radical settlers and its orthodox haredim to the Taliban. Antony Loewenstein, Aussie anti-Zio: The aim of these extremists is to establish a Taliban-style, rabbinical state to replace the current “secular” Israel. It may seem like a…
Drudge had a great headline today, Rush Hashanah. Sorry to be so irreligious, but if it’s the greatest crisis in the financial system in 80 years, shouldn’t some of our Jewish lawmakers get on the stick? And Congress won’t do…
Here’s a smart kid, Josh Nathan-Kazis, writing about how fears of intermarriage drove the organized Jewish community into the arms of the Chabad, the Orthodox Lubavitchers who think women should make the home. It’s a poorly kept secret in the…