The ADL is justy condemning the Arab media for its many “Holocaust” references in describing the Israeli attacks on Gaza. True, and regrettable. The ADL destroys any moral authority it might have, though, when it fails to mention, let alone…
Whatever you think of his conservative politics (and I don’t like ’em), John Sununu, Bush 41’s chief of staff and the former gov of New Hampshire, is a brilliant guy. Sununu is a nuclear engineer, a self-made man, and one…
Last night I watched appearances by Hillary and Obama in Texas on C-Span. The difference between the two candidates was revealed for me by their statements about oil policy. Hillary speaks of Bush and Cheney as “the two oil men”…
Aaron David Miller was a negotiator for Bill Clinton at Camp David. Now he’s coming out with a book on the peace process called The Much Too Promised Land. The website suggests that the book will contain an open discussion…
Today I took part in a conference call with an Israeli lion, David Kimche, the former Mossad boss and Defence Ministry official. The call was organized by the Israel Policy Forum, which is pushing for a 2-state solution now. Kimche…
Only in Haaretz. Shmuel Rosner has a good piece on a Jewish gathering in Ohio at which two congressmen, Obama surrogate Adam Schiff (California) and Hillary surrogate Andrew Anthony Weiner (from what Rabbi Ellen Lippmann calls “the holy city of…
I’ve heard two smart people raving about Larissa MacFarquhar’s profile of novelist Louis Auchincloss in the New Yorker last week–which is not online, only mentioned at the New Yorker site–because it includes scathing judgments by the novelist of his own…
I don’t usually read “Who is a Jew?” articles that quote Israeli rabbis. They are always filled with How-many-angels-can-dance on the head of a pin arguments utterly devoid of spiritual meaning. And as far as I’m concerned, a foreign country…
One of the most emailed stories in yesterday’s Times is a story I’ve covered repeatedly here, Obama’s difficulties courting Jews. The Times emphasized the importance of the at-first private meeting Obama had with 100 Cleveland Jews last week, the meeting…