People are still buzzing about Joe Klein’s statement that the Iraq-war-sponsoring neocons suffered from dual loyalty. I hope Klein is mainstreaming the issue. I’d point out as I have before that several writers have brought up dual loyalty and Israel,…
Last Sunday Zev Chafets wrote a too-affectionate and familiar piece about Rush Limbaugh for the New York Times Magazine. Chafets is now a regular contributor to the Times. He had a pro-Israel Op-Ed in the spring. This is important to…
I had dinner with a smart friend, an Arabist, from across the sea. Here are some things he said. What if they are true? –Egypt had a Parliament and a democracy till 1952 and the takeover by Nasser and the…
Ron Paul is a true leader. Here he is on the floor of the House yesterday denouncing the militant calls for blockading Iran and asking how Americans would feel if our ports were blocked. He notes that Iran’s missile-testing followed…
An opponent of the draft, Greg Mankiw, a former Bush economics brain, now a professor of law at Harvard, says that both Milton Friedman and John Kenneth Galbraith were against the draft, and approvingly quotes a recent WSJ piece: [T]here…
All the issues are flowing together: Iran, campaign finance, the Israel lobby, the presidential election. As I said yesterday, the Financial Times can discuss it but not our press. Last night Chris Matthews was tonguetied on the subject. When do…
The news says the Israelis have raided the Nablus mayor’s office as well as schools and mosques in the West Bank city because of links to Hamas. Here is a first-hand account from a doctor’s wife, who has a master’s…
God bless atheist Norman Finkelstein. I used to think he was too pallid, I wondered about his health. But having been expelled from DePaul and Israel, he looks tan, rested and fit, in this piece and foto in the NY…
The Financial Times today talks about something our press can’t, why this may be Israel’s last chance to hit Iran: One senior European Union diplomat privately stated this week that he put the chances of such an attack at “50:50”…