One of the gratifying things about being on my side of the Israel/Palestine issue–the Let Us Be Fair to Palestinians side–is the strong impression that the arrow, as they say in basketball, is going our way. Check out this recent…
The BBC says that the reported American raid into Syria that killed eight people, and which the Syrians are enraged about, may have a political root. With the Bush administration on the way out, this US military incursion may represent…
The New Yorker ran a short profile of Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg of AIG last week that contained a curious statement: In the current election, he’s supporting John McCain, largely because of the Arizonan’s support for the war in Iraq….
Tony Karon has a moving piece about Mandela, and his ability to unite blacks and Afrikaaners in a new idea of what it meant to be South African: Today Mandela is often invoked as an exemplar of non-violent change –…
A friend writes: “I saw Bill Maher’s Religulous today. Guess who gets off scot free? Yup. All the Muslim and Protestant Evangelicals are evil. The Catholics come off pretty good. The Mormons are insane. But which Jew does he ridicule:…
I got upset the other day when the Washington Post identified one of McCain’s American Jewish “leaders” as Shlomo Riskin of the Israeli town of Efrat. Efrat is a colonial settlement in the occupied West Bank, in violation of international…
I am thankful for all the comments on the Ace Greenberg “Jewish geography” post of yesterday. One thing I’d say to Richard Witty is that he lives in the sticks; and I am talking about an establishment network. These guys…
Yesterday I mentioned a Jerusalem Post editorial about settler violence, prompted by the enchanting picture below. I did not get into the full religious delusion of the editorial itself. I am going to excerpt key phrases in that editorial now,…
In my post on all the books coming out on the Israel lobby, I got author Jeff Gates’s resume wrong (Senate Finance, not House Finance) and failed to mention a few other taboo-breaking titles. There’s Avrum Burg’s Jewish-identity-and-Zionism book due…