Yesterday demonstrated the political limitation of Jewish communal organizations for me. At some point you are doing a potato sack race–or whatever you call that race where your leg is tied to someone else– with a neocon. That’s how it…
Yesterday Lilly Rivlin of Meretz USA invoked Amos Oz and Ariel Sharon as peaceable figures (oh well), but also said the names Brzezinski and Scowcroft not with anger but with respect, in the Jewish house. She said we are facing…
Today’s conference at New York’s Central Synagogue on Jews uniting against the war—six years after it matters—was remarkable for two things: the soulsearching over the Israel/Palestine issue, which represents real progress after years of denial that the occupation had anything…
A conference in New York today putatively aimed at reviving Jewish opposition to the Iraq war–six years after the barn door opened, and all the horses went down the hill with fiery nostrils–was actually devoted to soulsearching over the Jewish…
Brilliant piece by Gideon Levy–only in Haaretz–saying that the peace camp in Israel has been feckless from the start, and all are implicated in the settlers’ movement. So much for the accidental empire claims of conscience. And when Levy says…
Here is a story about 15 settlers attacking three Palestinian shepherds and injuring two donkeys, killing one of them, near At-Tuwani in the South Hebron hills. I can’t watch the video, can you? This is simply disgusting, and the fact…
A smart friend says that his main hope is that Obama is assembling a center-right foreign policy team in order to give himself cover to conduct a center-left foreign policy. Well let’s hope. But why does he need cover? Didn’t…
This Op-Ed in the Times, bless its heart, says that Eric Holder, the likely AG nominee, should be closely scrutinized by the Congress because when he was at Justice in 2001 he completely overrode the views of the U.S. Attorney…
This piece in a British student publication suggests that mostly Anglo-Arab students attacked the Israeli president during a speech, one calling him a “war criminal,” another speaking on behalf of thousands of Palestinian farmers whose land has been stolen to…