Roger Cohen has a brilliant column in today’s Times in which he repeats his epiphany of the last 2 months: his utter shame over Gaza. Then he moves to pure realism: about Israel’s threat to its neighbors and the importance…
Chas Freeman’s appointment is important in sociological terms. Freeman is the latest heir to a realist tradition in foreign policy that–while Jews have been adherents of it–has a gentile cast because it is associated with opposition to the recognition of…
Howard Halle in Time Out New York on Palestinian-American Emily Jacir’s very political show at the Guggenheim: Jacir’s tendentiousness is hardly a career impediment in an art world where any expression of identity appended by the word politics is applauded…
David Bromwich comments on Michael Walzer’s piece in Dissent on the two-state solution: What must be done on both sides has been clear for a long time. Many Israeli commentators–among them Uri Avnery–have been saying it. Palestinians (both Fatah and…
Andrew Sullivan has posted again in favor of Chas Freeman, with a great headline, “Another Anti-Semite for Freeman,” linking a Joe Klein column in favor of Freeman. This is big. Tonight the tom-toms in the jungle are muted. Marty Peretz,…
From the Ha’aretz article “World takes dim view of Lieberman in FM post”: “The ‘Lieberman question’ continually arises in State Department briefings for journalists and in other forums. And opinion columns in the American press have presented Lieberman in an…
Jeffrey Blankfort and Jack Ross have responded to Michael Walzer’s piece in Dissent calling for the defeat of the colonization movement in the West Bank in order to save the two-state solution. Blankfort: I have a different take on Walzer….
Here’s Charles Freeman, a foreign policy guy himself, defending his father Chas Freeman, Obama’s pick to head the National Intelligence Council, from the attacks of the Israel-firsters, in a guest appearance at the Washington Note. Notable for a few points:…
This is huge. Beth Elohim is the biggest Reform temple in Brooklyn. I’ve seen Combatants for Peace at Beth Elohim, and I’ve heard the rabbi talk about Darfur. Well Rashid Khalidi is speaking there next month– “one of the world’s…