There’s an old Jewish joke: Get two Jews together, you have three opinions. Well Dershowitz says that if you get 6 million Jews in America, they must have one opinion. On Israel, that is. In the JPost, Dershowitz offers a…
Jeffrey Goldberg, writing on his blog last November, when Rahm Emanuel was appointed: “Rahm, precisely because he’s a lover of Israel, will not have much patience with Israeli excuse-making. So when the next prime minister tells President Obama that as…
Any doubt that Israel under Netanyahu is off the rails? From Haaretz: Netanyahu appears to be suffering from confusion and paranoia. He is convinced that the media are after him, that his aides are leaking information against him and that…
A year or two after he was censored by a Washington-area bookstore (later uncensored) for supporting one state, Saree Makdisi is on Huffington Post today saying that the two-state solution, which he does not rule out as a goal, has…
Isabel Kershner, writing from Lod, Israel: Lod’s 75,000 residents are mostly Jewish, with Arabs making up a quarter or more of the population. Previously an Arab city known as Lydda, it was conquered by Israeli forces in July 1948. Most…
From JPost, at the bottom of an article on an emerging deal between US and Israel on settlements (I have great moles): Channel 2 reported Wednesday night that the prime minister had told his father, 100-year-old historian Benzion Netanyahu, that…
A Catholic friend send me this, from the forthcoming Times Magazine: JUSTICE GINSBURG: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.]…
I’m about to do a dialogue with David Zellnik, the playwright, about our favorite character, Theodor Herzl. I read Herzl night and day. I adore him and identify with him. He was grand, ambitious, literary and honest with his readers….
Today marks the five-year anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion which found Israel’s Separation Wall in the West Bank to be “contrary to international law.” Although the Court called for Israel to cease construction, dismantle the parts…