Here is a demonstration planned in Chicago at the AIPAC conference there on October 25-27. Stand Up to AIPAC! Election year demos in Chicago always fill me with radical nostalgia. There will be a “hotel vigil.” Ccool. The slogan is…
Everyone is talking about Jim Lobe’s post on a recent report justifying war on Iran, crafted by Michael Rubin of AEI and Michael Makovsky (who Lobe says worked for Doug Feith to manipulate the intelligence on Iraq and had emigrated…
Earlier today I said that Marty Peretz abandoned the New Left after the October ’73 war between Israel and Egypt and Syria. Wrong. Scott McConnell–who announced today that he will endorse Obama, points out: “Peretz’s disaffection from the left came…
The Law of Return’s loaded. The West Bank is full of guys from Brooklyn, or Minnesota, who need to live out their ethnocentric or racialist ideas on a biblical canvas. And the zeal of the converted tilts the entire state….
I’m always the last to know. Today I got an email from Saudi Arabia about Colin Powell’s beautiful statement last Sunday on Meet the Press about Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, the 20-year-old soldier, who was Muslim, killed in Iraq. Because…
Earlier today I wrote about Israel’s failure over several years to prevent religious nuts’ attacks on Palestinian kids going to school in the West Bank. Well, it’s starting to be a journalistic trend. Four years ago the Washington Post did…
Yesterday I saw Alan “Ace” Greenberg, the trader who built Bear Stearns, on Charlie Rose. Greenberg is 81 and a tough guy, he has the square head and unblinking eyes of a warrior in a Kurosawa movie. (And of course…
in this stirring endorsement of John McCain in today’s Washington Post. Why do I think that Israel’s protection is central, intellectually, to his crazed belief that “We [the U.S.] have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism”? As Israel is central…
The reason I devote space on this blog to Israel’s abuses of Palestinian human rights is because 2 years ago in Hebron in the house of an Arab who fears for his safety I saw a video of Palestinian girls…