Andrew Bacevich had a good piece in the most forward-thinking op-ed page in the country, the LA Times, that talked openly about the Isr**l l*bby and which urged neocons to repent of their Iraq invasion error: McCain’s national security team…
AIPAC likes Biden, says Ami Eden of JTA in a report on Biden’s Zionist street-cred… Haaretz says that Biden’s dispelled many Jews’ doubts about Obama, because he’s so beloved by Jews. It quotes megawallet Steve Grossman, who will always be…
Here’s a great youtube of an Al-Jazeera report on Gaza, which the anchor describes as an “open-air prison,” pegged to the international-volunteer boats that just got into Gaza with humanitarian supplies. You can see the sewage the Palestinian kids have…
Condoleezza Rice has urged the Israelis to stop settlement activity. It’s not “conducive” to peace negotiations, she says. You’d think she might use stronger language? Peace Now is saying that settlement construction has doubled in the first half of ’08,…
Jack Ross recommends Iowa Republican Jim Leach’s speech at the Democratic convention. “He said a lot of things no Democrat will say, like how we’re occupying a part of the world that doesn’t take well to western occupation. Most significant…
I found Michelle Obama’s speech really unimpressive. I’m as moved as anyone by her presence, but the speech seemed so fake. She hadn’t written one word of it, at least it felt that way, and there was little feel for…
Two boats that set out for Gaza from Cyprus in order to bring humanitarian provisions to Palestinians have arrived safely, notwithstanding fears of the Israeli blockade. Here is one of the passenger’s accounts, in the Detroit Free Press. Huwaida Arraf…
Here’s an amazing story in the Chicago Tribune about a family divided by deceased dentist Max Feinberg’s will, which said that any descendant marrying a gentile would be disinherited from his sizeable estate. Well oy–four out of his five grandchildren…
This morning I heard Obama on NPR going to a barbecue and saying, “It’s not a barbecue unless there’s barbecue. If there’s no barbecue, it’s a cookout.” That’s my kind of guy: an egghead who offers theoretical definitions, doesn’t get…