“Seven” is the pseudonym we gave to a Palestinian-American youth whose politics were formed when she was 7 and saw her grandfather punched by an Israeli soldier as her father and brother looked on helplessly. One of the most important…
Yesterday Marty Peretz at the New Republic offered his readers a scoop regarding Roger Cohen’s NYT column (which gives Peretz high blood pressure). Headlined “The New York Times Downgrades Roger Cohen,” the report was surmise: “[T]he troubled Times no longer…
Norman H. Olsen, a former senior United States Foreign Service officer who served in the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, writing in the Christian Science Monitor:[Netanyahu’s] policies may be misguided, but his intellectual honesty may prove salutary. The Israeli right…
Why are newspapers dying? One reason: because original thinkers are coming out of the academy and sharing their learned ideas on-line, and their journalism is better than the journalists’. Steve Walt today says that Netanyahu’s expansionist policy is national suicide….
Sometimes I wonder what it’s like to be David Frum and Bill Kristol. You held the table for so long. You intoned about religious values and the murderous Arabs and people listened to you. You thought you’d won. But you…
Some news: I think there’s a new non-Zionist liberal consensus, brought on by Gaza and Lieberman, lapping at Congress and the White House too. The not-in-my-name ranks are growing in Jewish life. Here is Dana Goldstein at the American Prospect…
Yesterday I posted my view that while the Michael Walzer/Avishai Margalit piece on Gaza in the New York Review of Books ends nobly–with the principle that an army must treat others’ civilians as it would treat its own–the piece is…
I keep waiting for a liberal Jewish congressman to join the new multicultural consensus post-Gaza (epitomized by Reps. Baird/Edwards/Ellison). Could it be Adam Schiff of Burbank? He was for recognizing the Armenian genocide. Nope. Susie Kneedler writes: Distressing news about…
Writing on Time.com, Tim McKirk has a touching story about three Palestinian sisters – Jinan age 6, Dania age 4 and Noor age 2 – taking a trip to visit their father in an Israeli prison. Their father, Ali, has…