Rob Browne writes: Look at this YNET article on Jerusalem police officers making East Jerusalem Palestinian kids take off their “offensive” t-shirts before going to the Temple Mount. A group of Arab summer camp children were banned from entering Temple…
Ethan Bronner has the good news from the West Bank today. Freedom of movement, signs of economic life. As’ad AbuKhalil nails it as propaganda here. (Thanks Seham) Pamela had the story for us the other day, in the proper context….
MJ Rosenberg has a fabulous post on TPM today advising Obama, whom he met with last year, not to go to the Holy Land: The one substantive suggestion arising from this screed is that Obama visit Israel. No way. I…
Ehud Olmert’s piece on the peace process in today’s Washington Post is accompanied by this cool graffiti off the Wall– and includes this telling phrase: “a complete freeze on settlement construction — impossible to completely enforce.” My policy is to…
Steve Walt says the Obama meeting with Jewish leaders proves the Israel lobby theory. I know this is obvious, but I have to quote it: First, although a few individuals in the Israel lobby continue to downplay its influence, the…
The other day I posted playwright David Zellnik’s take on Theodor Herzl. Here’s my response: Let’s start with our absolute agreement: Theodor Herzl is one of the greatest figures in Jewish history. It staggers both of us that your play…
Haaretz runs Glenn Altschuler’s fair review, in the sense of giving the author lots of space, of Marc Ellis’s new book, Judaism does not equal Israel (alongside the new Einstein book on his opposition to religious nationalism): Ellis insists that…
After Jonah Goldberg teed the story up, Michael Gerson nails it in the Washington Post today (What in hell am I doing in bed with these guys? I don’t know, I just like it, they’re not scrawny like my usual…
I’m struggling with a bad dream. It’s going to ruin my day. I have a friend who’s pretty religious. We don’t talk about Israel. We had a Walt and Mearsheimer conversation and he was enraged by them. The Iraq part…