A friend who disagrees with me on Israel/Palestine sent me an email the other day inviting me to Rosh Hashanah services. Her headline was cute: “tribal rites.” Then her signoff was, “Come in, the water’s fine.” I like her though…
Need to get all these big names right: The Olin Institute at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Middle East Studies at Harvard have announced a symposium next week called “After Bush: America’s Agenda in the Middle East” “This…
As any reader of this blog knows, I count Jewish noses. Hey, it’s a living. And I sure have noticed a lot of my landsmen on TV the last couple days doctoring the sick economy. On Charlie Rose, Hank Greenberg…
In Islamabad, David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party in Britain, promised that he’s no neoconservative. “We should accept that we cannot impose democracy at the barrel of a gun; that we cannot drop democracy from 10,000 feet -…
Haaretz has an article calling Tzipi Livni, who looks to be the next Prime Minister, Israel’s Obama. Not just one article I see, but two. Memo to Israel: Blacks were enslaved in the U.S. The Constitution counted them at 3/5ths…
The latest National Interest has a fine exchange between Stephen Walt and Joshua Muravchik on realists versus neocons. Muravchik’s claims for neoconservatism lie in the past. He says that America’s post-WW2 foreign policy was neocon–building interventionist alliances around the globe…
So say three profs and two rabbis at UCLA. I’d like to know where it is a presence in American life right now. But the ADL features cops outside a synagogue in Kristallnacht-like tones in its High Holidays announcement. Because…
John O’Keeffe thanks me for telling how I hurt Brian Urquhart in order to serve Marty Peretz’s magazine’s anti-U.N. agenda and my own career some years ago. O’Keeffe actually read the original story, and he remembers Urquhart’s heroism in World…
One of my masked correspondents, “Mark” (who provided me with all the thinking a few weeks back when we unmasked the religious columnist “Shushon” as the highflown double of a vengeful neocon operating under another pseudonym) has been thinking about…