My favorite newspaper, Haaretz, again breaks ground with a piece on Jewish identity in the U.S. The author, Yair Sheleg, wants Jewish organizations here to come out against intermarriage, he/she wants them to support Jewish education so that Jewish kids…
Yesterday I faulted the U.S. press for not doing surveys on American public opinion re Jews & Israel. Well, it turns out that Haaretz just published such a poll in Europe, conducted by the Anti Defamation League, showing that over…
The book business sometimes promotes books as “widely anticipated.” This is usually a lie, but for Farrar, Straus and Giroux this September, it’s not. A great number of people are breathlessly anticipating the publication of The Israel Lobby book by…
Is there a statue of limitations on Nazi crimes? According to Haaretz last Friday, thousands of children of Holocaust survivors were about to file suit in Israel against the German government, demanding payment for therapy: So far, some 3,000 Israelis…
I missed a central point when writing about Robert Pape’s theory about suicide terrorism yesterday. Pape says that an essential aspect of the practice is that suicide terrorists are venerated by their societies. They are martyrs, and are assured of…
One of my many disappointments with the media is that in the wake of the attacks in England and Mike Chertoff’s gut-check, we have seen no Op-Eds by Robert A. Pape, the realist at the University of Chicago who knows…
An anticolonialist blog (sent along by Joachim) says that the BBC has begun to revise its description of Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s alleged threat to Israel. [In a July 8 article,] the BBC said: “In October 2005, the Iranian president made…
George Ajjan tells me that at a meeting of Arab community leaders last night (in New Jersey, I presume) a friend told him about an article in Haaretz describing a growing trend to delegitimize the idea of a Jewish state…
At the warmongering American Enterprise Institute Monday, Frederick Kagan pushed for continuing the war in Iraq by saying that things looked lousy in the Civil War here in 1862 or so, but Lincoln stuck with it notwithstanding widespread grumbling over…