God bless Barack Obama, at today’s hearing he called for regional talks to try and stabilize Iraq and get us and our children out of there. Talk to Iran! Drudge is running it as his main headline (to this Breitbart…
My flight out of Indianapolis last night was delayed nearly 3 hours so we didn’t get into Philadelphia till 1 a.m., way too late to make my connection to upstate New York. Misery loves company and I had four partners,…
I generally keep my crushes off this blog but every man has his limits. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic congresswoman from Ft. Lauderdale, FL, is sexy. Sometimes I just gaze at her on CSPAN. She has an elegant horsey face–my…
The other day I quoted two Israelis saying that Americans don’t understand the normalness of Israel. It is a heroic place to American Jews, most of whom have never been there and have a fantasy of a heroic valiant place,…
My big question about Obama isn’t why I love him, I understand that (Middle East, postracialism); but why young people are gaga for him. What are the issues they care about? Is this, as I want to believe, a great…
During the event I attended Saturday at the Arab arts center in New York, Eitan Bronstein, the visiting Israeli activist, made a crucial point regarding the American conversation about Israel/Palestine. He and his tour had been in Chicago when he…
Things aren’t going to change re the energy/environment till people stop leaving their SUVs going in mall lots, get rid of the SUVs, and turn off pig electric devices they’re not using anyway. I happen to be in Indiana today,…
Yesterday I attended a touring presentation, sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, of an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian speaking on the Nakba and the Right of Return. About 30 people came to an Arab group’s space near Wall…
Here is scholar Jerome Slater’s take on the Times coverage of the southern Israeli town of Sderot: “Yesterday’s New York Times carried a frontpage story, meant to be heartwarming, about how Israelis and other Jews are rallying around the residents…