Here’s the Democratic side of the Obama and the Jews argument: an official Obama video about his love for my people. The good news is that it features an Obama endorsement from David Goodman, the brother of civil rights martyr…
I remain baffled why the mainstream media isn’t doing stories about the war for the Jews between McCain and Obama, because the rhetoric is so extreme on the Republican side. The latest Republican Jewish Coalition ad presents Israel and the…
Yesterday I teed off on a New Yorker profile of Hank Greenberg that I felt had provided cover to Greenberg’s Israel-centered views of the Middle East. I don’t keep up on the New Yorker, but a friend sent along the…
My old fur-palmed friend Nim Chimpsky says I’m taking shots for quoting Israel Shahak. (I’m lousy with comments; I hide under my desk, also I’m unpaid). Here’s an excerpt from Christopher Hitchens’s eloquent if also slightly bloviatory obit in 2001:…
Jerome Slater writes: John Mearsheimer is absolutely right that there is not a chance for a “one state solution.” Despite the rhetoric, the Israelis, by nearly 100%, will never accept it; the Palestinians also won’t accept it; and even if…
Here’s the triangulation I’ve been talking about. Today Jeffrey Goldberg has a piece attacking the Aish HaTorah sponsored “Obsession” DVD, which the Clarion Fund is distributing to swing states, as a hate video. And the Council on American-Islamic Relations is…
My friend Christopher Varley of Toronto writes: A friend has said to me, “I keep seeing/hearing reports that now that Tzipi Livni can’t get the ultra-orthodox into a coalition, Netanyahu is the favourite to win the election she will be…
The Times reports that an email is circulating among Jewish voters in Pennsylvania equating a vote for Obama with a vote for Hitler. Because of Ahmadinejad, presumably. That is the same link that emigre to Israel Gil Ronen has made,…
Here is Ira Glunts, a former IDF soldier, challenging Obama adviser and “soft neocon” Dennis Ross at Colgate University last week or so about Israel attacking Iran. “At 53:10 Ross says something like Israel is going to do what Israel…