I picked up my wife at the train today and hushed her as she got into the car. “I have to hear this.” David Makovsky, who wears two hats– Israeli lobbyist at WINEP, and improbable spokesman for the Arab world–…
Tema Okun writes: I am a Jew. I am a religious Jew. I am an anti-Zionist Jew. I realize that to make this last claim is to risk that you will stop reading, as often any claim of anti-Zionism brings…
Hannah Mermelstein writes: “The war is with the Arabs.” I saw this sign as I was entering Nablus last week, again on my way to Ramallah, and again near Bethlehem. The phrase is printed in Hebrew, presumably by Israeli settlers,…
A friend passed along this semi-desperate-sounding email from JINSA, the neocon thinktank that gave us the Iraq war (according to Colin Powell). He wondered whether it means JINSA is in trouble: The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is…
Seham writes: So far this is turning into the year that American Jews made hajj to Palestine, whether to break the siege on Gaza or to participate in and document the resistance to Israel’s land grab in the West Bank….
Antony Loewenstein writes from East Jerusalem: “Signs of Hope Emerge in the West Bank” was a headline in the New York Times on 16 July. On the same day, the London Guardian headlined a similar story, “Allure of normal life…
A report in Haaretz on a Cabinet meeting yesterday at which Netanyahu rebuked Shin Bet security service head Yuval Diskin when he started talking about the peace process and Hamas’s shifting public stance. The piece hints at a closeted Netanyahu,…
Here’s David Makovsky at Huffpo on the greatest threat to the west. He and I actually concur on the physical threat. But then Makovsky, whom we exposed yesterday for his pretensions to interpreting the Palestinian mind, gets into his ugga-bugga…
Netanyahu’s talking points to cover the settlements going up in East Jerusalem sound like he’s been talking to the Israel Project and Frank Luntz about how to market biblical expansionism to an American audience: Netanyahu told ministers at the weekly…