She should be the governor of Alaska. He should be Secretary of Defense.
Eric Alterman has an excellent piece of reporting on Israel at 60 in the latest Nation. Though it has a Zionist backbeat–Alterman describes his own intense relationship with Israel; I wish other Jewish journalists would be half so honest about…
NPR just aired a fine story about a US-Afghan raid on a western Afghanistan village last month, looking for a Taliban leader, that left either 40 dead, most of them Taliban fighters–or 90 dead, most of them children, depending on…
Here’s a short interview with McCain on Bigthink where he says that his advocacy for the rights of the unborn transcend national borders: I think there is a line that is always drawn between people’s private lives and public policy;…
Ralph Seliger of Meretz accuses me of intolerance, proselytizing assimilation, Palin-flipflopping, and anti-Zionism here. Though Ralph has I think acknowledged that I might be helpful to progressive Zionists in terms of support for the two-state solution. Because as my Zionist…
The neocon ascension is causing soul-searching at last within the Jewish community. A year after Yivo had an event to kill the messenger (a critical response to Walt and Mearsheimer), progressive Jews are doing what we must do and having…
From Ron Kampeas’s Jewish Telegraphic Agency piece on Jewish hopes re Sarah Palin: Pulses quickened among some in the Israeli media when the McCain campaign revealed Monday that Palin’s 17-year old unmarried daughter, Bristol, is pregnant and that her fiance’s…
I need to register the fact that Rudy Giuliani in attacking Barack Obama for alleged flipflopping said that he had told “a pro-Israel group” that he was for an undivided Jerusalem and then changed his mind the next day. Fair…