Israel’s political crisis involves the central fact that it is not really a democracy, inasmuch as 4 million Arabs in historical Palestine represent the great challenge to the state’s leadership, and yet none of them really gets to vote. Yitzhak…
Sad as it is, the timing of Obama’s grandmother’s demise could not be better for the candidate. The lonely walk down the Honolulu street to visit her last week, captured by invasive photographers, and now the death, which he did…
We’re all going to be talking about the Obama effect. It’s happenin. Soon we’re all gonna be talkin like Reverend Wright. Here’s Christopher Hitchens defending Khalidi, and riffing on a divided Jerusalem, occupation, the right o’ return, radical settlers, and…
A good thing, as Martha Stewart would say, that the dialogue over the Jewish role in the Iraq war is being debated at last in some precincts of the Jewish community. In his ongoing dialogue with Joe Klein, Jeffrey Goldberg…
Forboding music and a lot of nuke talk: Just caught neocon Frank Gaffney inveighing that a President Obama would adopt military policies inviting “disastrous” attacks. We’re the sole superpower cause we decided to be, he says. “When we see candidates…
Headlines like that one used to be antisemitic. Fox seems to be using it as a selling point. Here’s the Fox story’s lead: As Barack Obama continues to absorb accusations that he is not committed to maintaining America’s staunch support…
Politico on Obama’s team. Leans toward Richardson at State, Hagel at Defense, Zinni as NSC, and keeps Samantha Power in the mix and nixes Susan Rice as NSC. Only alarm bell is Jane Harman as head of CIA, but seems…
There are going to be 1 million people in Grant Park in Chicago tomorrow night. (If Obama loses, imagine what they’ll do to the city, then imagine what people will do to New York.) On MSNBC, Chuck Todd was saying…
More slime from the Republican Jewish Coalition. Here’s an RJC flyer saying Obama’s friends and advisers are “pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, even Hostile to America.” Here’s an image of the Western Wall the RJC is using to stir Jewish voters, saying Obama…