One of my themes about Israel is that it has lost the international public relations battle–even if this is not yet news in the U.S.– for a true and simple reason: The image of Israel used to be kibbutzes, now…
I gather that NBC has after some delay posted the “Saturday Night Live” skit from the other night that savaged the banking couple, the Sandlers, and in doing so has removed the murderous words: “people who should be shot.” From…
There’s a new term of abuse I just heard in leftwing circles: “closet tribalist.” Which is to say, if history goes our way, and we really enter a postracial period, then some day 30 years from now people will denounce…
Here is Sampo–my hiphop abbreviation for Samantha Power–suggesting that we should maybe impose a solution in Israel/Palestine. She said all this six years ago, before she got took to the woodshed: Though “imposition of a solution on unwilling parties is…
Interesting JTA piece about fears that the financial meltdown will lead to attacks on Jews. It cites “Saturday Night Live”‘s attack on bankers Herbert and Marion Sandler and on George Soros. Included this: “There is definitely a fear among certain…
The reason this blog exists (I often say) is because of something one of my siblings said to me in 2003: “I demonstrated against the Vietnam war, but my Jewish newspaper says this war could be good for Israel.” This…
I’ve been getting around 21,000 page views a week. Not a lot of movement up or down over the last month, but up over 6 months. Yesterday I got a grand total of 68 cents from Adsense, the google service….
The Financial Times is a great newspaper. They have a piece on Bibi Netanyahu’s plans for a Palestinian “entity.” Netanyahu himself jumping up to the white board. Well it’s subdivided “into a collection of disconnected economic zones with dedicated business…
Only in Haaretz… A few weeks back I did a post quoting an Israeli settler writing to Haaretz and expressing solidarity with Palestinians over their oppression. “Meir of Gush Etzion.” It was a remarkable moment because it showed that you…