The conversation is obviously changing in the U.S. But I missed this one. It happened at Buchenwald a month ago, Brokaw asked Obama the question. My assiduous coreligionists at CAMERA got it. They’re now trying to give Brokaw a spanking,…
The best line in Nathan Guttman’s piece in the Forward about the Justice Department’s effort to prove that a pro-Israel spy ring was operating inside the Pentagon, AIPAC and the Israeli Embassy came from Steve Rosen, the former AIPAC lobbyist…
Jeff Blankfort writes: I can only shake my head. I never trusted Obama, but this report in Time reveals just one more example how BO has stiffed the American people on behalf of his friends/big donors from Goldman-Sachs and Citigroup….
Ynet meets Dr. Eran Lerman, who took office Thursday as deputy chief of Israel’s National Security Council. For the last nine years, Dr. Lerman has served as the director of the American Jewish Committee’s Middle East office. The AJC is…
Robert Dreyfuss in the Nation, from Tehran: And then there was the Obama factor. Countless Iranians watched his June 4 Cairo speech, and its transcript was parsed word by word. By offering to respect Iran rather than locating it in…
It’s taken me a while to unpack my trip to Gaza last month. Part of this is technical (I only just learned to upload videos to Youtube) but mostly it is emotional. I have a lot to sort out. Today…
Rob Browne writes: Here is an Agence France Presse article about groups in the settler movement trying to increase tourism to the settlements. The logic is, visitors will form such a strong attachement to these settlers and their settlements that…
The latest Commentary has a great piece by Joseph Epstein about a guy I’d never heard of, Isaac Rosenfeld, a critic/writer in the New York Intellectual set who was supposed to be Saul Bellow’s peer as a talent and who…
Last night I did a post stealing Antony Loewenstein’s view (and Mohammad of Vancouver’s) that it is naive to believe that the U.S. had no hand in the Tehran uprising, especially given the use that neocons are now making of…
From a Harvard alumni mailing seeking “demographic” information for survey: Which income range most clearly represents the total annual income of your household? ___$0-$49,999 ___$50,000-$99,999 ___$100,000-$249,999 ___$250,000-$499,999 ___$500,000-$749,999 ____$750,000-$999,9999 ___$1,000,000-$2,499,999 ____$2,500,000-$4,999,999 ___$5,000,000+ Which range most clearly represents the total net…