Congressmen Brian Baird and Keith Ellison have published a beautiful piece on American policy in Israel/Palestine in the Seattle Times. Excerpts below. A few comments first. –It is significant to me that Baird and Ellison are non-Jews, writing in a…
People seem to be leaving out the plainest part of the Jane Harman scandal, which is actually the worst part of it: the importance of big money to the Israel lobby. Leave aside the legal issues–whether or not Harman cut…
From Cohen’s new article “Clinton’s Mideast Pirouette:” I hear that Clinton was shocked by what she saw on her visit last month to the West Bank. This is not surprising. The transition from Israel’s first-world hustle-bustle to the donkeys, carts…
A smart friend writes: Does some significant part of the attraction to torture among American policy and intelligence elites emanate from a wised-up/tough/glamorous idea of torture whose source is Israel? A current blog by Martin Peretz speaks of torture as…
A smart friend writes: Does some significant part of the attraction to torture among American policy and intelligence elites emanate from a wised-up/tough/glamorous idea of torture whose source is Israel? A current blog by Martin Peretz speaks of torture as…
A friend picked up my earlier post questioning a Persian translation by Michael Rubin and offered character notes for the novelist who finally puts the neocons in a story: He has the conscience of a propagandist. Though his scholarly writings…
A friend picked up my earlier post questioning a Persian translation by Michael Rubin and offered character notes for the novelist who finally puts the neocons in a story: He has the conscience of a propagandist. Though his scholarly writings…
Wake up call: Today the Israeli police detained five members of an Israeli feminist group that has encouraged young Israelis not to join the army. The police confiscated several of the group members’ computers. The five were released after signing…
Wake up call: Today the Israeli police detained five members of an Israeli feminist group that has encouraged young Israelis not to join the army. The police confiscated several of the group members’ computers. The five were released after signing…