Eight groups across the religious/ethnic spectrum have called on the Marriott Marquis Hotel to cancel a fundraiser set for tomorrow night by the Hebron Fund, which gives money to the illegal colonies in Hebron. Protests are planned if the fundraiser…
This poll of Americans by The Israel Project was embargoed till 3:30 PM Jerusalem time today, which of course sets my dual-loyalty hairs on end. But having looked over the poll, the actual questions, it’s hard to quarrel with the…
This is from the Times of London. Obama is endorsing the Geneva initiative of 2002, privately. So Dan Kurtzer may be the real wheel in the swiss watch we call Obama’s brain. Obama is getting Peres on board. And presumably…
We were supposed to get hard frost here by late October. We still haven’t gotten a hard frost. It’s been raining here for days. That should have been some snow in there, the taste of winter. Some of this is…
A friend gave me the documentary, Man From Plains, about Jimmy Carter’s 2006 book tour for Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. It came out a year ago. My wife and I watched it the other night. I would urge the good…
The Obama effect. A friend just got back from Europe. Last year she felt like a pariah. Porters in Paris refused to pick up her daughter’s bags. At a ski lodge in Switzerland people screamed “Bush” at her over dinner….
Steve Walt has good faith about Obama’s foreign policy. (Having lately seen evidence of his clairvoyance,) I asked him where he thinks we’re headed, and he offered these comments by email: I’m trying to keep an open mind on where…
Readers of this blog must be aware by now–I am, anyway– that I have only a rudimentary understanding of religion, and the difference between religion and ideology. Here is Jack Ross, who goes “to a nice little lefty shul in…
This is my new theme. The center of apartheid is here, where Americans persist in denial enforced by the Israel lobby. While everywhere else, even in Israel, there is some awareness. The Independent in London has seen a shocking new…