The other night in Brooklyn, in a speech condemning apartheid in the West Bank, the head of the South African Council of Churches, Rev. Eddie Makue, said that things look very grim right now for Palestinians, but that “we could…
I think Alan Dershowitz is still angry at Jimmy Carter for refusing to debate him in 2006, and for referring to him as an unnamed “Harvard professor” in his speech at Brandeis in Jan. 2007. How else to explain his…
Edward Abington Jr. is a leading Arabist. A former consul general for the State Department in Washington, he once represented the Palestinian Authority in negotiations in Washington. A friend has sent along Abington’s comments on Rahm Emanuel’s likely stance re…
Haaretz has a great piece suggesting that Rahm Emanuel may actually help the U.S. interest because unlike some Jewish power-predecessors, he’s not secretly guilty about never having gone off and served in Israel and thereby doesn’t need to serve Israel…
Yes that’s a provocative headline. The latest New York Review of Books includes a wonderful interview from Yedioth Ahronoth in which Ehud Olmert says it’s time to give up the land now, and stop these idiotic generals from running our…
Obama effect. Rahm controversy spilloff. Good piece by Matt Duss raising the double standard for Israeli terrorists–Rahm’s George Washington father– and Palestinian ones in the American discourse. Do you see what’s happening? The realist wisdom gained from Iraq–that when people…
Something’s happening in our culture. The Obama moment is allowing us to talk about stuff in a new way. I don’t know what I think about Pat Buchanan’s anti-war book, but it’s interesting that Huffpo is giving Eric Margolis space…
Jeff Blankfort points out that my pickup on “Obama’s Iran braintrust” last night was wrong. Oh my. Shouldn’t blog late at night when I should be having connubial bliss. Then he joins in the conversation with Jack Ross on whether…
The neocons really are going. Charles Keating watches Washington Journal. This morning Canadian Eric Margolis, author of Amerian Raj: Liberation or Domination, was on. Charles reports that once again, Israel/Palestine and the lobby are in the center ring: Margolis said…