With the proviso that my Farsi is rusty (and my humor is Borscht belt) and I’ve never liked the Iranian President’s Holocaust denial, this is a reader’s response to my “wiped off the map” reference earlier today. My reader links…
David Bromwich writes: One inference is plain from the contrary emphases of Netanyahu and Obama at their news conference. The coming six months will see a continued aggressive insistence by Israel’s most uncritical American supporters, tuned to a single theme:…
NPR did a story yesterday morning on the Netanyahu/Obama meeting (notice the four comments are all incredibly hostile to Netanyahu). The host, I believe Renee Montagne, introduced the piece by speaking of recent events, including Israel’s “striking targets” in Gaza…
NPR did a story yesterday morning on the Netanyahu/Obama meeting (notice the four comments are all incredibly hostile to Netanyahu). The host, I believe Renee Montagne, introduced the piece by speaking of recent events, including Israel’s “striking targets” in Gaza…
On Monday night, following the Obama-Netanyahu meeting, Charlie Rose had an interesting half hour with Rashid Khalidi, Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal, and Lally Weymouth of Newsweek (and Jim Hoagland in Washington, reporting). The best part of the…
On Tuesday, Benjamin Netanuyahu left his ambiguous meeting with President Obama behind him for greener pastures – the US Congress. There has already been speculation that Netanyahu is planning on using the Congress to block any challenge from the Obama…
Haaretz says that Netanyahu is walking away from his visit with Obama saying he got a win: On Iran, a senior Israeli official said the premier was also pleased with the outcome of the visit: Obama set a deadline -…