I am a Yankee hater (I grew up in Baltimore). My friend Dan Swanson is also a Yankee-hater, of the Chicago White Sox variety. I polled him on his feelings following the Yankees sweep of the world champions this past…
The Forward has some good reporting on the antiwar insurgent’s position re vis-a-vis Lebanon. And Jonathan Tasini’s, too, the man challenging Hillary Clinton.
Commenter Rowan Berkeley has accused me of “Jewish Orientalism.” It’s not the first time; my friend Dan Swanson (author James North) has accused me of orientalism on a number of occasions. What do I cop to: I think there’s a…
This is about the power of ideas. The neocons were on the outs for a long time after Reagan left office. To their credit, they lived quietly in their cells exchanging crazily logical ideas about the Middle EastÂand were well…
Syria Comment has as usual a clear eye on matters Middle East. Joshua Landis says the Israeli attacks on Lebanon are an effort to cut Lebanon off from Syria so that Hizbullah will be isolated and unable to resupply itself….
George Ajjan has an amusing item on Why Iran’s President Ahmadinejad never wears a tie. Ajjan heard this from an unnamed Iranian friend: Shortly after the revolution…the tie itself began being associated with “Western imperialism”, especially after Ayatollah Khomeini branded…
Two newly-published reports suggest that the first President Bush, George H.W. Bush, lost his bid for a second term in the 1992 general election because of the Israel lobby. First there’s yesterday’s Washington Post Magazine piece on the lobby. It…
The Washington Post today today has the courage to run a cover article in its magazine with the question, “Does the Israel Lobby Have Too Much Power?” Hats off to the Post! It has done what real journalists should have…
Wall Yes, he’s my friend, but he’s good, out there, bleak but grasping at hope, and his show, at the ADD Gallery in Hudson, N.Y., has been extended through the end of the month.