Two years ago the state of Israel began selling a national bank, Leumi, to private investors. One of those investors was Ezra Merkin. That’s him, shaking hands with Sharon in the picture at left. That picture was in today’s Times,…
A few weeks back, Haaretz did a piece mentioning David Dudkevitch, a settler rabbi who says that Israel has stolen the state from the Jews. In 2004, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote a piece for the New Yorker called “Among the Settlers:…
I think I’ve missed the story, re Madoff. Last night Adam Horowitz wrote me, “I get your interest in the ethnocentrism angle, but I’d remind you of the dollars and cents angle – how much money has the Israel lobby…
Last spring I did a post on former Ambassador Dan Kurtzer’s book, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace, that argued that it was a coded assault on the Israel lobby–that in vague criticisms of “Jewish-American interest groups” and “absence of Arab expertise,” it…
J Street has found its issue, and maybe its voice, too. It’s calling on the Jewish leadership to come out against the Hebron settlers’ “pogroms.” Specifically, J Street wonders why Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents has said nothing….
A friend in money management wrote the following re Madoff. He asked that I keep his name off it: There have been several red flags along the way that Madoff’s investors have ignored. I want to highlight these signs that…
Madoff was treasurer of the American Jewish Congress. Amazingly: 2/3 of the organization’s endowment is said to be at risk. A deep shame. Clubbiness goeth before the fall.
Tragic. Israel has detained Richard Falk at Ben-Gurion airport, Al-Jazeera reports, and wishes to deport him. Oh–now he’s been deported. This just a week after his scathing report on the approaching famine in Gaza and the world’s silence.
I’m starting a new category: Lincoln. For two reasons. Because I’m obsessed. And because I believe that Lincoln would absolutely share my views on the Middle East and the American interest. I’ll get to that later. For now, here is…