John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt write: We think that the discussion on your blog about the recent poll commissioned by the Israel Project misses a critical issue. The fact that 57 percent of the respondents “support” or “strongly support” Israel,…
My friend Dave came over last night and we watched some of the Sunday night football game and I opened a pomegranate. I ate my half carefully, but neither of us had a plate. My wife came out from her…
In my unending lovefest for Obama, I missed this beautifully-righteous letter to Obama from Ralph Nader, on the eve of the election, saying Obama is in the pocket of Israel-lobby hardliners when it comes to prospects for a two-state solution….
Anna Baltzer, a Jewish anti-Zionist from California who works tirelessly on The Issue, is about to go back to Palestine. Lately she has (published this letter in the Washington Times and) sent out an email to her friends describing her…
How long can Americans deny international consensus? A human rights group founded by Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, with the likes of Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter, lately visited Jordan, Israel, and Palestine, with sadly predictable consequences: President…
Obama was spectacular on “60 Minutes” last night, spectacular. I watched with my jaw open. Anyone who doubted this man’s abilities I want to laugh at today. The command of facts and ideas, the sense of priority, the cool executive…
From Adalah-NY’s statement about tonight’s fundraiser in NY for the Hebron Fund, which supports colonialists in the West Bank: Kathleen Duffy, a spokesperson for Marriott in New York City,…did not respond directly to questions about seeming violations of the Marriott’s…
On reflection, I find it lamentable that the LA Times piece by Avraham Burg, which I welcomed last night, and still do, is the Exalted Burg way up there circling on his thermals. It is all about the Shoah in…
Jeff Blankfort responds to the Israel Project’s poll of Americans’ love for Israel: Polls taken in the US are generally designed to test the public to judge to what extent they have imbibed the propaganda dished out by the mainstream…