Steve F persists that America loves Israel’s vibe: I was thinking about Obama and it dawned on me that the next four years could be tougher on you and yours than the last eight!! At least during the Bush years…
Ali Abunimah in the Washington Times. Let’s say that again, Ali Abunimah in the Washington Times. This is great news. Oh, great alienated Paleo, welcome into your bosom the alienated Palestineo, and the alienated lefty-Jewo like me. This is the…
A friend just sent me this piece by S.R. Sidarth, the student who set off the “Macaca” flap 2 years ago in Virginia, destroying George Allen’s campaign for Senate against Jim Webb, whom Sidarth was supporting. You remember that this…
I love a high-class soap. Well today I feel like Alistair Cooke on Masterpiece Theater, speaking in his plummy voice: “Our last episode ended with Rahm Emanuel’s father Benjamin, who served in the Irgun, a terrorist organization, saying that Rahm…
The other day I noted that Grant Smith, a smart guy, likened Rahm Emanuel’s appointment in Obama’s White House to the appointment of Myer Feldman in the JFK White House. Basically Feldman was the price of Kennedy’s dependence on the…
I’ve been waiting for this. I have always said that J Street’s role is to lobby the lobby. They’ve made nice to AIPAC. But a split seems to be occurring all the same. Haaretz again (they don’t write about this…
This piece is in Haaretz says Obama is the “first Jewish president.” Alan Solow: “He has always had a deep understanding of Israel’s need for security. I went with him to Israel for a week in January 2006, and when…
I need to report on last night’s tour of Brooklyn by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. First at an Arab-American church, then at a Park Slope church. 20 people in the first event, 100 at the second….
A couple days ago a friend of mine said “The cat is out of the bag” re Israel/Palestine. (Thus the clever headline). He referred specifically to the fact that Rahm Emanuel’s dual loyalty issue was getting attention around the world….