Former CIA agent Michael Scheuer is not only a smart guy, he’s legit. He was on ’60 Minutes’ three years back talking about the hunt for bin Laden. Well, now Scheuer is out of the closet, on antiwar.com, with accusations…
When I visited Bethlehem a year back, I got the view north back to Jerusalem–beyond the all-but-encircling concrete barrier–of a sugarloaf of a hill with a gleaming settlement on it. Har Homa was built in the late ’90s, and its…
I watched Sarkozy’s speech to Congress on C-Span last night and it brought tears to my eyes. That guy has some good writers. Sarkozy summoned us to what is great in America. He talked about American individuality and daring, he…
I grew up middle-class in Baltimore. My parents raised 6 kids on an academic salary and my mother bought all our clothes at thrift shops. From 10 to 12, the object of all my hankering was E.J. Korvette’s. It was…
One of my mentors in Israel/Palestine issues is Boston-area activist Hilda Silverman. She is at once very Jewish (which gives me great comfort) and very concerned with Palestinian human rights. The other day she sent out the following note to…
Abe Foxman may be sawing off the treelimb he’s standing on. People are passing around the JTA’s wonderful/bizarre interview with the ADL director of a week or so back, in which Foxman defends his campaign against recognizing the Armenian genocide,…
I’m often impatient with Shmuel Rosner’s blog on Haaretz because he is so unreconstructed in his support for Israel, and his support for American pols who support Israel, but Rosner is, in the end, a small price to pay for…
Tonight Walt and Mearsheimer appeared with honor at the London School of Economics. It is reported that in the next couple days they will be speaking at the House of Lords and at Chatham House–the Royal Institute of International Affairs….
I missed last night’s event at Yivo Institute cause I felt fluish (rhymes with…). My friend Rob Buchanan, a longtime journalist who teaches journalism at the New School University, went, and had this to report: I went with the news…