Jerome Slater writes: A few weeks ago Richard Silverstein queried a number of people, including me, on what we knew about future Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren. Bernard Avishai wrote that he sort of liked him, he was…
Jerome Slater writes: A few weeks ago Richard Silverstein queried a number of people, including me, on what we knew about future Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren. Bernard Avishai wrote that he sort of liked him, he was…
The Koffler center of the arts in Toronto is affiliated with the UJA Federation, one of the leading Jewish organizations. It is dedicated to arts with a Jewish angle. The latest shocker-nonshocker: Reena Katz is a Jewish artist who was…
More on Robert Dreyfuss’s piece on Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton. Earlier we focused on the Dayton’s “sell-by date” for the two-state solution. The question we ignored is what does Dayton know about peace in Israel/Palestine in the first place? Dreyfuss…
I’m sorry if that is old news. My sister explained it to me yesterday. Transparency is a value borne by the new media. People want to know where you’re coming from and how you reached your conclusions. Transparency is the…
I jumped on Michael Oren’s remarkable piece in Commentary about the threats to the Zionist ideal. So does Akiva Eldar, in Haaretz: Particularly interesting is the solution to the existential demographic problem that ambassador-to-be Oren proposes– unilateral withdrawal from the…
Alan Sabrosky, who states that he is a Marine veteran and graduate of the Army War College, at information clearinghouse: At present, a large majority of Americans support Israel, having been fed a steady diet for decades of Israeli “victimisation”…
Alan Sabrosky, who states that he is a Marine veteran and graduate of the Army War College, at information clearinghouse: At present, a large majority of Americans support Israel, having been fed a steady diet for decades of Israeli “victimisation”…
Scott McConnell reports from Washington: It’s belatedly dawning on me that next week’s Obama-Netanyahu meeting will be the kick-off for a Super Bowl of Super Bowls of diplomatic maneuvering, as two nominal allies seek to mobilize elements in the other’s…