Adam Shatz in LRB on the neocon strategy to preserve Jerusalem by flooding swing states with the anti-Islam film, Obsession: [Film producer] The Clarion Fund is a front for neoconservative and Israeli pressure groups. It has an office, or at…
Today on Fresh Air, Terry Gross asked former CIA officer Robert Baer to tell her some good news, and he said, Olmert said it this week; the key to peace in the Middle East is to give up the West…
Addendum to the post two down: Lawrence of Cyberia, who I’d imagined played by Peter O’Toole in the big movie about the leftwing blogosphere, turns out to be a girl. I used the wrong pronoun. Should have said, “She.” Lawrence…
Ralph Seliger says he and I are near the end of our dialogue. Here’s his latest. I have no response for now. Maybe later. But I like to give opponents the last word here anyway. Ralph: Since you were curious…
Lawrence of Cyberia, whom I’ve added today to my blogroll, has the cleverest About Me page I’ve ever read. Well he’s a Brit. They’re cleverer than us. But Lawrence has kicked around the Middle East and now is in Washington….
Amazing that Time Magazine has been able to preserve a little of its tradition of non-Zionism into the Era of Goosestepping Journalism re Israel. Here is Time’s Scott McLeod quoting a passage from the Olmert tapes that I hadn’t registered:…
revive the 2-state solution? Because this election is going to be a convulsive event. I don’t think Americans even understand how socially/culturally catalytic this will be. I don’t. Can’t wait to find out.
One great thing about this blog is that in addition to meeting Arabists and Arabs on the pretext, It’s My Job, I have gotten the social comfort-food of meeting a lot of Jews who feel just the way I do:…
Ralph Seliger is responding to me, then I respond to him. It’s a conversation about Jewish identity and Israel. Seliger: You don’t just have a “problem with identity politics”; you also have a problem with your identity, and this is…