I’m still mulling Marty Peretz’s longish phone conversation with Obama about Israel, also Jeffrey Goldberg’s longish interview with the candidate. One of the weird things about both conversations is the sense that Goldberg and Peretz are extracting a promise from…
Marty Peretz and Jeffrey Goldberg are powerful journalists; Obama lately talked to both of them about Israel. Peretz had a “longish” conversation, Goldberg did an interview. Why did Obama go to them? He obviously believes that they have the keys…
The Etzel Museum, commemorating the Irgun, is itself housed in a former Palestinian home in Jaffa. And check this out: several demonstrations by No Time to Celebrate Jews, including 10 openly-identified “anti-Zionist” Jews outside a “birthright” event in New York….
Today’s a great day. George Bush’s crazily craven speech at the Knesset, a naked obeisance to the Israel lobby, has caused Chris Matthews to charge that Bush and Hillary, with her “obliterate Iran” talk, are competing for a “domestic political”…
Against Commentary Magazine, a reader has offered me this Jaffa blogger. Her name’s Yudit, an artist. I want to believe she’s Jewish. Oh my god, there are some beautiful Jews in the world! She says Jaffa, once “bride of the…
Scott McConnell comments on Bush’s promise of giving-up golf while the war’s on: There’s also a more complicated sociological point to be made here: that the WASP establishment which ran the country’s foreign policy rather decently in the years after…
Last week I blogged about Commentary’s piece denying the Nakba, which was underwritten by the chairman of the New-York Historical Society– a landmark of Nakba denial, published in what was once a glory of Jewish intellectual tradition: Commentary, the magazine…
Tonight I watched one of Keith Olbermann’s trademark rants against George Bush. It went on for 15 minutes of vituperative outrage, generally surrounding Bush’s politico interview, and his decision to give up golf while the Iraq War was going on……
In ’68, Mayor Daley’s police force brutally broke up the antiwar demonstration in Chicago so as to preserve the dignity of the Democratic convention… Forty years on, and Daley’s son, Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, has quashed a City Council…