I fear that I’m losing my ability to socialize. I’ve never been a very good socializer, but now in my 50s I’ve become more impatient in social situations, and as the conversation wanders here and there superficially, my mind disappears…
Glenn Greenwald’s enthusiastic demolition of Jeffrey Goldberg for hurling antisemitism charges at anyone he disagrees with is surely one of the best blogposts I’ve ever read, and a reason that the blogosphere is replacing the MSM. Writing/discourse doesn’t get better…
Waching C-Span just now, I caught some of Richard Perle’s denial of neoconservatism’s influence in an event at the Nixon Center yesterday and had a few impressions. Perle said that the reason for the Iraq war was the Bush administration’s…
We’ve been tracking how the elevation of Avigdor Lieberman could damage US-Israeli relations. But there are also questions about whether the rightward turn of the Israeli elections will further the alienation between American and Israeli Jews. Friction has always existed…
A couple weeks back I noted that both NY Times correspondents in the Jerusalem bureau are married to Israelis. And one of the spouses, Hirsch Goodman, has been engaged in what appears to be lobbying for the two-state solution. Years…
AC writes: Amira Hass has an article on the front page of today’s Haaretz.com that documents the Israeli army’s use of Palestinians as unwilling “human shields” in raids inside the Occupied Territories. Israel is the prime employer of Palestinians as…
‘They [team Obama] might as well have appointed Bandar”–anonymous Israel lobbyist on the choice of Ambassador Chas Freeman to be National Intelligence Council boss, according to Ben Smith on politico. The commenters are crazed over this.
A Canadian activist says that the University of Toronto is trying to squelch the divestment movement there by denying pro-Palestinian groups a room to meet in. The president, provost and vice provost of the school are suddenly involved in the…
Throw a bone, a big one, to the Israel lobby. It looks like Dennis Ross is going to be handling the Iran portfolio under Hillary Clinton. This picture is his other portfolio: it shows Ross presenting the report of the…