Some days I wake up and realize: We are about to win. Jewishness is about to stop being selfish. Suddenly all the parochial voices are going to feel very ancient and young people will reject their counsel. This attack by…
to canvas together. It should not have been a big thing, but the beauty of the image did not escape me. “Instead of walking the tree-lined streets near our home, my wife and I were instructed to canvass a housing…
The National has a great piece of reporting from Israel, pithily titled, Young Israelis Resent Occupation. Yesss!! And here is an important statement from Avraham Burg in his new book which I will be booming on this site for a…
My post about Ted Koppel on Charlie Rose going on about the heroic civil rights movement while there’s a civil rights movement unfolding right in front of us in Israel/Palestine moved a friend who worked in Gaza to say, “Do…
Robert Fisk in the Independent credits the Israeli archives for disclosing the secrets that gave way to the revisionist New History, and says that Arab governments being closed, the other side must rely on oral testimony. Fisk ennobles the new…
Jack Ross had a more hopeful, and I am hoping, canny response to my post last night about Obama getting in bed with the Israel lobby in 2003: When I first read that bit about Obama speaking to Arab students…
As Tuesday approaches like the galloping troika, a friend pointed me to two pieces that reveal the evolution of Obama’s thinking re Israel/Palestine. I’m gaga for Obama; but I revisit these pieces tonight just to remind myself and readers of…
The New York Review of Books recently published George Soros’s testimony to the Senate about oil prices. I’m going to excerpt a bunch of it below. His analysis is important to me for the following reason. Soros is in essence…
I wonder if the Rahm Emanuel story was not leaked to make Jewish voters feel more gemutlich (that’s kin, in German/Yiddish, I believe) about Obama. Emanuel’s father was apparently in the Irgun, the Zionist movement that used terrorist methods to…