The Forward says Carter has a new book on Middle East peace coming out in January. Good timing, bro. Politico has a forum quoting Steve Walt. And I hear TPM has something coming up with John Mearsheimer. The third rail…
Adam Horowitz writes: I’ve noticed that the Times chooses to refer to the settlement in Hebron as the “House of Peace” while Ha’aretz refers to it as the “House of Contention”. Ha’aretz says: “The area surrounding what has been dubbed…
Marty Peretz turns 70 today and says: Samantha Power said some erroneous things about Israel and then they talked. He explained the national romantic struggle of the Jewish people to her in Irish terms. Guess what: She “truly truly loves”…
Novelist couple Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have written a letter for Peace Now urging American Jews to get behind the two-state solution. It begins with language I find offputting: Israel is a flower — perhaps the greatest — of…
A couple years ago Scott McConnell at the American Conservative told me how impressed he was by Chuck Hagel, that he mixed fine insight with a flat manner. More recently, David Bromwich told me of how he had sat up…
Photo by Mark Peterson, who says: “these pix (including the one yesterday of George Bush) were taken in the summer of 2000 when bush named cheney his running mate…they are not photoshop …the color comes from the room lite and…
Dear reader: This link will take you to a page at the Council on Foreign Relations. I believe it is the Council on Foreign Relations of the United States of America. But I might be wrong. On the lower right,…
James North points me to this photograph at the top of the front page of the Times today, from Hebron, and says: “I insist that this is unconscious bias. Why is this on the front page? You would have sympathy…
Adam Horowitz writes: Did you see this obituary in the Times today for Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, at the ripe old age of 98? What a life–which in an interesting way mirrors the trajectory of part of the Jewish community in…