Michael Walzer is a hugely-influential voice in the Jewish community. He can bring a lot of the New Republic crowd and the liberal interventionists and even leftleaning intellectuals along with him wherever he goes. Well, here is an important new…
Last night I talked to a housewife from St. Louis (at a non-Jewish family gathering) who said she was very uncomfortable about the fact that the world is now having to spend billions to rebuild Gaza– makes her wonder why…
Israeli home demolitions in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan have finally been getting increased attention in the US press. The map to the right (click to enlarge), from the Foundation for Middle East Peace, shows the strategic importance of the…
The FY2009 omnibus appropriations bill hasn’t gotten too much attention on this site. Until now. This is because Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) is attempting to tie passage of this essential bill to a congressional endorsement of anti-Palestinian bigotry. The wonderful…
My wife and I drove to Philadelphia yesterday afternoon from New York. We were a half hour along when I said, Damn. I had forgotten a biography of Noam Chomsky I’d meant to grab and bring along. Oh, well the…
A good rock has been turned over in the Chas Freeman controversy. On Foreign Policy’s website, one of Freeman’s defenders, Stephen Walt, cracked about one of Freeman’s pursuers, Jeffrey Goldberg, that his idea of public service was moving to Israel…
The liberal end of the Israel lobby was on fine display yesterday when the Israel Policy Forum hosted Israeli Minister Isaac Herzog to discuss “Gaza Challenges: Overseeing humanitarian assistance to Gaza.” Herzog is from the Labor party and serves as…
Another blow to the 2-state solution: it empowers Netanyahu and his anything-goes chorus. A major embarrassment to Obama. Freeman left the State Department years ago for the private sector and was convinced to take this job. The reason they wanted…
National Review editor Rich Lowry joins Freeman-bashing: It’s not pro-democracy protesters but Israel that is the most intense object of Freeman’s ire. He blames the Jewish state for the deadly hatred directed at it, and at us. He thinks we…