Aaron David Miller’s book The Much Too Promised Land contains this unbelievable description of Bill Clinton. Miller served under Colin Powell as a senior adviser on the Middle East, and he writes that according to a “senior” Bush official, when…
Today’s a day I feel blessed to be a Jew living right now in Jewish and world history. Because wow is there a lot going on, this is just an amazing moment in Jewish power and journalism and Jewish civ…
My wife, a trendspotter, reports that two couples she knows have now achieved no-see-em divorces. Both couples were highly sensitive to their public image and didn’t want the tongues wagging. So when their marriages ran out of gas in middle…
There’s a fascinating dialogue about Obama’s Middle East collapse, here on Flickr between two photographers–AnomalousNYC, who I think is sorry, is not Arab, and Sky Redoubt. Says Anomalous: Part of Obama’s perplexing obeisance [to the Israel lobby] could have something…
The greatest political season of my life. I’ve lived 58 years for this moment, the country has lived 400 years for this. I’m the ringleader. I’m gonna ignore those weird sensations in my upper arm, and the dizziness the other…
Last November,Yivo, the Jewish institute in New York, staged a panel on Walt and Mearsheimer’s book, The Israel Lobby, titled “A Critical Response.” I bought a ticket. But I was ill that day, and couldn’t make it. Later, two partisans…
Typically, the British press has 2 ugly stories from the colonized West Bank –sorry, Judea and Samaria–that haven’t shown up here. BBC has a piece showing 4 Israeli settlers descending with baseball bats on Palestinian shepherds because the locals are…
This post is a few days overdue, but necessary, as I’ve been such a Clinton-basher. I started listening to Hillary’s speech Saturday with complete contempt. And it certainly squeezed my bile gland when she didn’t mention Obama for minutes on…
From the Times: “CNN, which saw its ratings surge on nights like Super Tuesday, has yet to resolve how much of the conventions it will present, said David Bohrman, who directs the coverage in his capacity as Washington bureau chief….