Martin Sieff in the Daily Beast calls Rahm Emanuel a “quasi-neocon-hawk” and points out that his middle name is Israel. This is why I pushed for a low Jewish vote for Obama. He got 78 percent. He didn’t get the…
I’ve had very mixed feelings about Samantha Power, or Sampo as you call her, for all the reasons you alluded to on your blog though there are certainly worse people she could have nice things to say about then Richard…
of soldiers mocking a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner and making him say stuff, to laughter. Added today on youtube. Seems abusive. Can someone translate? Update: Steve R informs below that the soldiers are getting the Arab to ask them in Hebrew…
in that last post with the suggestion that that AIPAC friend of Larry Summers is under some journalistic obligation to declare her religion, Jewish. Yes, too far, bad boy. But I think part of the problem here is that Jewish…
Huffington Post gives a platform to Beth Dozoretz, a member of the AIPAC executive committee who has Israeli gov’t connections and helped deliver the Marc Rich pardon back when, to say the country needs Larry Summers as Obama’s next Treasury…
Another county heard from. Rahm Emanuel’s father, who was in the terrorist organization the Irgun, talking to the Israeli press: In an interview with Ma’ariv, Emanuel’s father, Dr. Benjamin Emanuel, said he was convinced that his son’s appointment would be…
I guess I’m gossiping today. Then I take heart and remember what Mike Kinsley once said, that to be a good journalist you have to be part-gossip. And my wife says gossip is the yellow-brick-road of curiosity about, ultimately, the…
Peter Voskamp, editor of the Block Island Times, took me to meet Walt and Mearsheimer in R.I. back when we were lads, 2 years ago. What larks! Here’s Voskamp riffing on the Emanuel appointment and his faith in Obama: I…