Only in the Jerusalem Post: An Irish Nobel Prize winner who ran the blockade to visit Gaza has called upon the UN to “suspend or revoke Israel’s membership.” [Mairead] Maguire says Israel should be punished for ignoring a series of…
Jacob Heilbrunn, neocon spotter, has a fine piece in Huffington Post pointing out that the neocons, deprived of a host by McCain’s demise, are, surprise, relaunching as Hillary Clintonites. Obama? No problem. The Weekly Standard has apparently been adoring Hillary….
Dubai said it was barring Lev Leviev, the diamonds-and-settlements czar, from opening jewelry stores there because of his construction of illegal Israeli colonies. Now it looks like Dubai is opening a back door to Leviev after all. the New York-based…
Last night Chris Matthews, a political genius, said that Hillary Clinton was crazy not to try her damnedest to be Obama’s Sec’y of State because she would be dealing with tremendous historical challenges in the Middle East: the end of…
The Washington Post editorializes that likely-AG-designate Eric Holder had a spotless record as a prosecutor until one dark dread night in 2001, when he signed off on the Marc Rich pardon. His sole blot. The Post sucks its thumb: why…
I still have faith in Obama and the Middle East. But nobody can be sure and I keep an open mind. Here is Philip Giraldi at antiwar.com saying that Rahm Emanuel is AIPAC’s man in the White House and pointing…
Last week I had a great post written by Anne Silver titled, It is an awful and uncomfortable situation to encounter Jews who are progressive on every issue but Palestine. I thought Anne had put her finger on something we’ve…
The news is filled with speculation about whether Obama’s mainstream Cabinet choices are going to alienate his leftwing base. The commentators aren’t sure how to phrase this. Contessa Brewer on MSNBC used the words far left and liberal, as I…
Jack Ross writes: Seliger makes a number of serious distortions, I salute Dan Sisken for finding the goods to back up my contention that he is at odds with Meretz itself. And while I’m certainly not surrendering to despair on…