One of the amazing things about the invasion of Iraq is that not only was it charted by neoconservatives, many of them Zionists who sought to secure Israel, but that unconsciously or not, these folks inhaled the Israeli view of…
The furor over British plans to rent embassy space in Tel Aviv from settlements-builder Lev Leviev is building. This piece in the Independent happily treats settlers as pariahs, citing the Unicef decision to take no contributions from Leviev. Even the…
Last night I watched the Orioles-Yankees game and got a kick out of listening to Yankee announcer Ken Singleton, who will always be #29 for me, the jersey he wore for the Orioles when I was a kid in Baltimore….
The Forward’s Marissa Brostoff has a good piece on the Lehman family, celebrated in Stephen Birmingham’s book Our Crowd, which is frittering away for all the usual Tolstoyan reasons. But obviously assimilation is playing its part: “We had everybody at…
Ralph Seliger and Saif Ammous have been arguing over Ammous’s assertion that Americans wouldn’t respond well if a rich Christian came over here and started to turn us into a Christian country with different sets of rights based on religion……
Below are a string of amazing and taboo ideas I have plucked from a paper by Israeli Ofra Yeshua-Lyth, formerly a journalist, that attacks Zionist “dogma” on demographic issues and the Jewish state, and that was presented at this summer’s…
My friend Steve F. has challenged me re Arab intolerance: The chief of Saudi Arabia’s highest tribunal has issued an edict that television station owners should be killed over “immoral” programming. In the article is also a rather humorous statement…
Notice that Desmond Tutu is saying that the west is salving its Holocaust guilt by enabling Israel in anything it chooses to do. This is wonderful and helpful, and echoes what Mike Desch has said in his landmark paper on…
I like the headlines in the National out of Abu Dhabi. Today one headline is “Double Down,” a double entendre of Lehman and Merrill going down, 7 years after the Twin Towers went down. You can do that kind of…