Jack Ross continues to be optimistic re Obama and Middle East policy. At some point all this is imponderable, but for now– The bottom line is that Obama is not going to do anything that would jeopardize rapproachment with Iran,…
Shmuel Rosner. What is there to say about this? That people of limited imagination, brutalized by unending war, with war as their only option, having urged the Iraq adventure on us, and rationalizing their own religious state with its obnoxious…
a friend tells me that this New Yorker profile of Tom Friedman gives him a pass on his Iraq War error by not quoting from any of his drum-banging columns back then. I’d have hoped that the author would have…
Yesterday Jeff Blankfort and Jack Ross had a dialogue here about the unending question: what Barack Opaque Obama means for Middle East policy. Blankfort has responded: I appreciate Jack Ross’s contributions to your blog as well as his optimism, but…
The guy I quoted on Arabists last night is Mitchell Bard. I gather he used to write for Near East Report, a publication of the AIPAC establishment. Grant Smith, author of the great America’s Defense Line, supplied this cartoon that…
Mitchell Bard, former AIPAC op, in his latest communique from the center of the earth (or Chevy Chase, MD, the quaking magmatic kishkes of the lobby): [With Obama’s victory] State Department Arabists see a chance to be unchained after eight…
Edna Canetti of MachsomWatch, the great group of women resisters, writes from her heart to Obama: “Do me a favour, come and change my life personally. Come to Israel, grab its stupid leadership by the throat and take its foot…
Ron Francis of the Somerville, MA, divestment project sent out the following email describing a ballot initiative on Israel/Palestine in Somerville and Cambridge. It urges equal rights for Palestinians in Israel. Cambridge passed it by 73 percent. It interests me…
The Jerusalem Post says the election might bring a record number of Jews to Washington. I wonder how much of the power structure, as we used to call it so quaintly, is Jewish. I know, another canard. Good lead: “Forget…