A smart reader from Virginia has pointed out that my “shock” yesterday over the statement in a Condi Rice biography that the war was “promoted” to help Israel is callow. Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay writes: I agree that the war was not…
Are you as bowled over as I am by the hiphop and Hollywood mashup (I hope I’m using that word right) of an Obama speech with a song called “Yes We Can”? Obama feels truly oceanic to me. Something is…
Here is Michael Lerner, on why Obama’s Israel straddle is going to give him a political hernia: In recent days, we at Tikkun magazine have had hundreds of emails from young Jews distraught at the television images of tens of…
Dan Fleshler exults that the great Rob Malley is an adviser to Obama. Martin Peretz says, with relief, that he is not: There are all kinds of spooky rumors that a man named Robert Malley is one of Obama’s advisers,…
Speaking of Condi Rice, I am reading the superb new biography, The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy, by Glenn Kessler, a diplomatic correspondent for the Washington Post. On page 242, in describing Rice’s shifting rationales…
Speaking of how our Israel policy is made, here is an excerpt from an interview by an Israeli TV reporter of Sec’y of State Condoleezza Rice two weeks ago. What is remarkable in this interview is that Gil Tamary, the…
A friend just got the latest YIVO bulletin, which is not available at the Yiddish institute’s website, and reports the following: It includes a full page diatribe against Walt-Mearsheimer that concludes that W and M “presented a one-sided version of…
Is there an Israel lobby? Barry Lando, a former producer for “60 Minutes,” writes: A few years back I did a report on AIPAC for “60 Minutes” with Mike Wallace. One after another, all the congressional offices I contacted confirmed…
From what I saw and read of the Dems’ debate last night, Israel/Palestine was not mentioned. The blackout continues. Indeed, the only reference I’ve seen in presidential politics to what I consider the most important issue the country faces was…