I can’t say enough about Aaron David Miller’s richly-detailed book The Much Too Promised Land. It puts flesh on the sometimes-skeletal understanding in Walt and Mearsheimer’s book. Anyway, last night I read that George Bush’s historic June 24, 2002 speech…
One data point I forgot to mention, from AIPAC. Hillary’s speech mentioned anti-Semitism, its rise in Europe and prevalence in the Arab world, seven times. McCain mentioned it once. Obama mentioned it no times. He’s not down with the dogma…
Yesterday I blogged about the party for Raja Shehadeh’s book on walks in Palestine, at which a lady named Rima told me about the day in August 1947 that her house in Jaffa was evacuated because a Jewish terrorist had…
Here’s a disgrace. A rabbi/blogger named Kurt Stone is seeking to dispel reports that Obama is being advised on Middle East policy by anyone who is remotely critical of Israel, say Zbig Brzezinski or Rob Malley. Stone finds that in…
This is pretty interesting. Jon Stewart took on AIPAC last night, and the shameless pandering of the presidential candidates, in a 5 minute sketch. This would never be happening but for Walt and Mearsheimer. The secret’s out. Now everyone can…
The Satmar group, True Torah Jews Against Zionism, is stating that a long article describing the group in neutral terms has been deleted from Wikipedia and replaced by four lines about the Satmar group in an article about anti-Zionist Jews….
I went to a party last night for a new book called Palestinian Walks, by lawyer Raja Shehadeh. It was at Mariam Said’s apartment in New York, the widow of Edward Said. There is his piano, there are his many…
My friend Jack Ross lives in Brooklyn. He’s a Jew on the left. He sent me an email re Obama’s speech at AIPAC that I found interesting. I’ve interpolated my leaden comments [thusly]: When I read the first extended account…
The Boston Globe’s Sasha Issenberg has done a pretty-darn-good piece of reporting broaching the idea that RFK’s assassination by Sirhan Sirhan in ’68 was the U.S.’s first taste of Middle East terror, as Sirhan was motivated, he has said, by…