It appears that Douglas Feith’s book War and Decision is being ignored by the mainstream media. The Observer’s Leon Neyfakh reported that the Washington Post failed to review the book after running a news story off the book’s publication, and…
At Jews Sans Frontieres, I learn that the UNICEF decision to cut off Lev Leviev, the diamond merchant who is expanding settlements on the West Bank, has been covered all over thanks to Reuters, and the JTA. But Leviev continues…
French President Nicolas Sarkozy addressed the Knesset today, and after saying that France would always be Israel’s friend, declared that Jerusalem must be divided to make way for the Palestinian capital, and all the Jews in the West Bank must…
The Hudson River this year is empty of the countless stinkpot personal trophy yachts. So is the Schuylkill in Philly. Americans are reordering their priorities not to be such giant oil-pigs. They will ride bicycles more, live their lives more…
I had a big weekend. My father-in-law turned 80 and we celebrated in Philadelphia. I married into a Protestant clan and a lot of the festivities took place in Chestnut Hill, which is the sort of privileged old neighborhood in…
A long time ago I wrote a piece for the New York Observer arguing that the famous talking-points memo was the work of Bruce Lindsey, and Bill Safire mentioned my piece in his Times column, saying it was “brilliant.” My…
Nicholas Kristof has a great column in the Times today on the two Israels, describing the abuses against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, including the baseball-bat beating of shepherds by colonists that I picked up here ten days ago. Times-watcher…
Here’s Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations addressing the Iranian people, with Farsi subtitles, telling them that “we” (the Jews, the U.S.) want to have a close relationship with the Iranians again, to help them…
I’m reading Douglas Feith’s book War and Decision. As I said the other day, Feith is afraid of the rageful spirit directed toward him and other people who got us into this war, and that fear is written throughout this…