Doing my part to feed the pro-Obama gossip mills: I was at a party last night where a friend who follows these things said that she has not yet seen McCain give a speech without Cindy there. Why do you…
Rightwinger Shaul Mofaz was defeated by centrist Tzipi Livni for the leadership of the Kadima party in Israel. As you know. The great Uri Avnery: On the advice of his right-wing American political strategist, Stanley Greenberg, Mofaz emphasized the word…
Here is amazing footage of a religious settler attack on a Palestinian village–following a stabbing of a settler kid by the Palestinians. Cycle of violence. Of course the Israelis have confiscated Palestinian land and water, so yes I guess I…
Interesting that Obama praised Olmert fulsomely yesterday: “I wish Prime Minister Olmert well and have told him how much I admire his pursuit of peace and his staunch defense of Israel’s security,” Obama said. While Olmert slinks around like a…
I had two reasons to go to Yale Thursday night to hear the group If Americans Knew. 1, The pro-Palestinian organization had been disinvited by the Greenwich Public Library under pressure from the lobby earlier this year– before a protest…
One of the most important political posts I’ve seen in a while was done by Richard Silverstein out of Washington State yesterday. He went to a fundraiser for a congressional candidate for Washington’s 8th district, and did so because J…
I spoke to my friend James North today on the phone and he made the following points about the financial crisis that I think are worth hearing. I’m paraphrasing, except where I quote: There’s a famous joke that leftwing economists…
Last year Saif Ammous and Richard Witty had a dialogue about Zionism in this comment section. Now Ammous and Seliger are having a dialogue about the right of return, in posts, this being the last, from Ammous, yesterday. I’ll keep…