I’ve criticized Bill Clinton forever, today I’m celebrating him. I saw him on Meet the Press yesterday, interviewed by Brokaw, and was stunned by his eloquence re Africa. I saw the statesman for once. I wonder if it has to…
Outgoing P.M. Ehud Olmert is telling a leading Israeli paper that Israel has to withdraw from almost the entire Occupied Territories if it wants to save itself from the crisis it is now in. From the Times’ Ethan Bronner, this…
Dayton’s newspaper reports a tear gas attack on a mosque there, affecting a lot of children. Dailykos makes the connection between the attack and the distribution of the free DVD of the anti-Muslim film “Obsession” by “McCain supporters” in swing…
I keep meaning to do this post and have finally found a rainy day. A month back I saw an old friend, my age, 53,who looked great, young. I said, How do you do it? His family was there and…
Tonight ABC World News did a piece from Kentucky, I think by Dan Harris, that essentially mocked Baptists for accepting Sarah Palin as a possible vice president of the U.S. even as they bar women from the pulpit. There were…
Last spring my friend Hilda Silverman died, a leader on pro-Palestinian issues and a mentor to me on the idea that Jewish identity doesn’t have to be captured by Israel. I think of Hilda now because one of her issues…
Steve F. is accusing me of making wild assertions re the Israel Lobby. Here’s his charge: So now Ralph and I am part of the Lobby, eh? Strange – I haven’t gotten anything in the mail recently about this. This…
I thought they were supposed to get rid of settlements. No, here’s a plan to reopen a sewage dump for Israel settlements in the West Bank that Palestinians say poisons artesian wells that serve Nablus and nearby villages. (Thanks to…
Ralph Seliger and Steve F. respond to me re the right of return. Seliger first: It’s simple history that Israel overran its borders in 1948, because the tides of war permitted it to. The Palestinian and external Arab forces made…