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Here’s an update on Tristan Anderson’s condition. He’s unconscious following surgery in a good Israeli hospital, and will be kept unconscious for days to aid healing. His family’s getting a lot of support, and is headed over there. On Monday…

Charles Lane in the Washington Post and David Rothkopf on Foreign Policy make the same angry point: the Freeman affair has devolved into a regrettable argument about whether Israel’s supporters in this country have dual loyalties. Lane wants President Obama…

Last night I had a dream where I was on a subway platform with a lot of other people in a private party and one group of us suddenly announced themselves as Zionists. They wore blue and white hats or…

Those Israeli journalists are tops. That’s Uri Avnery’s headline for his piece on the Freeman affair. “The portrayal of the power of the lobby by Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, has been fully vindicated.”

Obama, talk to Hamas, says this group of 10 muckety-mucks including Brent Scowcroft, Zbig Brzezinski, Paul A. Volcker, Ted Sorensen, and the great Henry Siegman. Two former senators, both Republicans: Chuck Hagel, Nancy Kassebaum Baker. Nebraska and Kansas–so much for…