Ethan Bronner, the Times writer who reviewed Jimmy Carter’s book and dismissed it as “strange” and “little,” has a piece in tomorrow’s times about Israeli Arabs’ mixed feelings as the 60th birthday of the state approaches. Better off and better…
I just learned that the great Hilda Silverman, activist, teacher, and writer, died yesterday, surrounded by family. Hilda had tons of friends. I was one, though I never met her (we came close on a day last September, till her…
More on the Obama Effect. Did you see the big obit for Mildred Loving, the black Virginia woman whose marriage to a white man in the 60s led to the landmark Supreme Court case knocking down laws against interracial marriage–…
You cannot honestly describe the formation of Middle East policy without acknowledging that Jews are principals in the establishment, and Jewish wealth is a significant factor in public life.
Today’s Financial Times has an editorial decrying the “siege” of Gaza and the creeping “annexation of the West Bank” and concludes ominously: The choice has never been clearer, for Israel and the US: it is either peace or the settlements….
Sean Lee has an interesting chart of 34 NYT references to “Nakba” over the last ten years. He shows it’s growing, not by leaps and bounds, but growing. This shows that up until the 50th anniversary of the Nakba, the…
Yesterday Hillary defended her threat to totally obliterate Iran. Obama, god bless him, described this as GWB-style “saber-rattling.” It’s all political. As Hillary’s biographer Sally Bedell Smith said on C-Span the other day–and wrote last year: in 1993 she talked…
This is important. In Rome, a neofascist has won the mayoralty, the first such rightwinger since Mussolini. Says the Financial Times: Packs of young, thuggish supporters of Gianni Alemanno greeted the new mayor’s appearance at the Campidoglio city hall with…
I just watched Obama’s speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Indianapolis. Obama’s call to sacrifice and idealism is exalted, especially compared to Hillary’s claylike intonations, her gas-tax pandering and countless references to “oil companies.” In telling his own story, Obama…