Ralph Seliger has a piece at Meretz selling Joe Biden as Pro-Israel and Pro-Peace to progressive Zionists. Seliger writes, “This JTA news service profile of Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware should reassure both nervous pro-Israel voters and those who seek…
The only congressman who speaks Farsi is now out of the slammer. That’s a good reason to put anyone in the slammer, don’t you think? Former Ohio congressman Bob Ney, a Republican, says his corruption investigation in the Jack Abramoff…
God bless Haaretz, it has broached an amazingly important issue: reverse aliyah. All the Israelis who have left Israel for the U.S. Maybe close to 10 percent of the population! Dontcha think American journalism should be writing about this, and…
Last night Keith Olbermann said “Grand slam” as soon as Hillary’s speech was over. It’s pure politics on his part, Fox News is his role model. I didn’t think it was that great a speech, nothing like her absolutely fabulous…
Darling, the world is changing under our feet. On page F2 of the Washington Post, there’s an interview with wily lefty cookbook writer Chris Fair, who sneaks in some samizdat about Israel and Palestine. Some day this stuff will be…
Weird that Joe Lieberman is in the running to be McCain’s vp. Peter King, the Long Island congressman, says McCain should pick him. So does Bill Kristol. It’s weird that he’s even being considered. It shows that the old social…
More evidence of Michelle Obama’s sophistication: her high style. Tonight she was wearing a gorgeous off-white dress with a plunging back, cap sleeves and a gathered waist, looked like. This chick is hip and refined. The dinner table conversations in…
Joachim Martillo has pointed out to me that a Chicago judge who dissented in the Feinberg intermarriage case made a covert reference to Theodor Herzl. Judge Alan Greiman thought dentist Max Feinberg’s limitation on his will to descendants who married…
More on those Gaza blockade-running boats. Jeff Halper, the great Israeli activist on the occupation, was on one of them and was arrested when he reentered Israel, taken to the police station in Sderot. JPost said he was violating the…