Veteran’s Day: And the Jewish National Fund is calling for American Jews to buy $5000 plaques on Ammunition Hill, a battlefield memorial site in Jerusalem, to honor Jewish veterans of armies in other countries. Michael Desch picked up this “one…
Some stories out of Israel suggest a real weakening of the civil spirit. When Israeli president Shimon Peres visited the Hebrew University library in Jerusalem November 1, Ali Baher, an Arab student leader at the school, refused to shake hands…
Here is a great piece on the Iraqi Jews, by Adam Shatz in LRB. There are only a dozen Jews left in Baghdad today, there were 125,000 in 1948, including famous families like the Sassoons. The plight of the Iraqi…
The Connecticut senator has now put his name on the next version of Obsession, the video that says Islamists are in your town and about to burn down your church. “It’s definitely here,” Lieberman says. I wish I had made…
I admit that I teared up seeing Obama get out of the limo and walk up to the south door of the White House. When I regained my composure I noticed Obama disappearing into the White House with Bush and…
Richard Witty made me defensive some time ago by his accusation that I’m a polemicist. Still don’t know if the shoe fits. I suppose he was talking about my argumentative streak. Though I’ve pointed out that polemics is merely a…
Jeff Blankfort writes: I don’t know if you’ve seen Jeffrey Goldberg’s take on Emanuel [adulatory] but it is pure BS and Goldberg is disingenuous when he writes that Emanuel was not in the Israeli Army– Rahm did not, despite the…
12-year-old Palestinian beaten and imprisoned with adults, for what–for protesting the confiscatory separation wall… Muhammad Khawajah tells the great B’tselem: Last Thursday [11 September], around 3:00 A.M., I woke up from my mother’s shouts. She was shouting, “Get up! Get…
Again I’d state that I don’t know whether the Rahm pick is a great disaster or a possible opening. This stuff is complex. I believe Obama is a great leader/player, capable of being sphinxlike even to the lobby. You sense…