What a pity that politico, in covering Obama’s campaign, tries to shame him for having Zbig Brzezinski as a foreign policy adviser when Brzezinski has “controversial” “baggage”– he endorsed Walt and Mearsheimer’s groundbreaking book on the Israel lobby. Reporter Ben…
To their credit, Gen. Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, have testified that the only thing that can end the violence in Iraq is a political solution between the various parties. Crocker told Barack Obama today that…
Here is the National Jewish Democratic Council attack on Walt and Mearsheimer. It includes the NJDC’s head, Ira Forman, arguing in the Jewish Week, that a group of neoconservatives could never have bullied Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, et al into…
According to the JTA (my favorite wire service), the National Jewish Democratic Council has said that Walt and Mearsheimer’s ideas are “irresponsible” and “downright dangerous.” The Council, which is affiliated with the Democratic Party, made the accusations in response to…
The Nation has scooped the N.Y. Times and Washington Post with a fine piece of reporting on the great Israeli daily, Ha’aretz. Here is the most important paragraph: Gideon Levy says he is less constrained in his punditry than most…
Here is an ugly story about a Florida family denied the right to travel from Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport after they visited the West Bank. Why? They’re Palestinian-American, visiting Palestinian relatives. The family have American passports; but for a couple of…
A friend passes along the following account of Walt and Mearsheimer’s event at Northwest D.C.’s most influential book store, last night: Went to Politics and Prose in Washington, DC last night. Place was like a sauna. A man passed out…
In the latest Commentary, Hillel Halkin, a New York-born columnist for the Forward who made aliyah after the 6-Day War and who I have pointed out before sees the Bible as a deed to the land of Israel for the…
In the latest Commentary, Ben Toledano tells the following story in a piece about New Orleans: …a wonderful story, possibly apocryphal, concerns the press mogul S.I. (“Si”) Newhouse, who among his many newspapers owned the New Orleans Times Picayune, the…