In 1991 President George H.W. Bush tried to stop Israeli settlements by linking American loan guarantees to the Jewish state with a freeze on the settlements. Pro-Israel groups in this country went haywire, and Bush backed down, and famously complained…
Today Israeli P.M. Olmert said that the “outpost” settlements in the West Bank are a “disgrace.” This after our president, George Bush, said the other day that these settlements “ought to go.” It shows 1, how powerful America is. If…
To his and the paper’s credit, the Public Editor of the Times today attacks the decision to hire Bill Kristol as a columnist. Clark Hoyt says Kristol shouldn’t have gotten the job because he once called for the Times to…
I didn’t think the crying was faked. If it was, she wouldn’t have stumbled and made that strange comment: “You know, I have so many opportunities from this country, I just don’t want to see us fall backwards.” It was…
George Bush’s gentle criticism of the Israelis over the settlements today brings closer the moment when a national news show does a report on the Israel lobby and interviews John Mearsheimer and Dan Fleshler and Michael Lerner about what effect…
A few weeks back M.J. Rosenberg of IPF said there’s a “seismic shift” going on in the Jewish community in the U.S. Basically: the conservative Jewish organizations that dominate the lobby are coming out for a two-state solution at last,…
In the Chicago Tribune, Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, who calls on American Jews to support the peace process, says that Israel is Jews’ “spiritual home.” Our community has always stood with Israel, our spiritual home. We’ve prayed for peace, for…
In the Chicago Tribune, a Brit Tzedek rabbi, Arnold Jacob Wolf, says that the American Jewish community’s failure to speak up for the peace process now is “shocking.” Wolf says that yes, American Jews have been skeptical of the peace…
It seems like most people aren’t buying Roger Clemens’s defense of steroid charges. Here’s why I doubt him: He’s always been an asshole. That’s made him a great pitcher, though also a sonofabitch (Piazza’s broken bat incident in W.S. with…