Where have all the neocons gone? The realists have picked them every one. David Frum, the sloganmeister behind Axis of Evil and Victory or Holocaust, endorses (as “excellent”) a fellow neocon’s statement: the casualties are disproportionate: Hamas has arranged it…
I told you the world is changing. Yesterday it was Steve Clemons saying Gaza is Guernica. This morning this lede foto on Huffpo says: How’d you like this to happen to you? No thanks! When Feith and Frum were around,…
Below are opinions from two non-Zionist Jewish pals of mine about what Gaza means for the lobby/Obama. In this corner, wearing the white trunks, is Jack Ross, who is optimistic and who I completely agree with, and who was dubbed…
At a time when the American Jewish community is staggered and lost, and starting to question the sagacious leadership of Jeffrey Goldberg, Marty Peretz, and Michael Oren, the Times runs a horrifyingly ethnocentric piece by Israeli military historian Benny Morris,…
I notice that Ethan Bronner’s coverage of Gaza in the Times continues to be cautious. He balances attacks on Islamic University with the threats to Israelis in the Negev. The most vivid moments in this story are anti-Hamas. The execution…
The Israeli navy this morning attacked and crippled The Dignity, a Free Gaza boat on a mission of mercy to besieged Gaza, in international waters. Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is aboard (just a few years after the Israel lobby rammed…
It’s finally time to get that Twitter account. According to the JTA the Israeli Consulate will hold a public press conference via Twitter: In what may be a first for any government the world over, the Consulate General of Israel…
A Muslim friend writes from an Ivy League university: “I was chatting with a security guard at my dorm. The talk was about India/Pakistan/Afghanistan. Then he looked at me and said ‘What do we do about Israel?’ I think people…
I tell you: this is the anti-67 war. It will unrally American Jewry and make them wake up to what Zionism has built in the Middle East. Brit Tzedek has failed the test, not surprisingly: its statement on the slaughter…