Excellent report in the Forward by Anthony Weiss showing that Yemen’s 300 Jews, whose transfer to Israel from the Arab nation has become a cause celebre among western Jewish/Zionist groups in the wake of the murder of one of the…
Amazing how the Gaza slaughter continues to reverberate–as the deaths of children should. Pat Oliphant did a stunning cartoon of a jackbooted headless Israeli pushing a star of David over the little people of Gaza. “I paused when I saw…
Last night President Obama admitted that it wasn’t going to be easy to work with the new Israeli government. Today they showed why. Ha’aretz is reporting the Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman have cut a “secret deal” to build 3,000…
Tonight the 92d Street Y held a panel on “Why Zionism has become a dirty word,” with four Zionists on stage and some non-Zionists demonstrating out in Lexington Avenue. The hall was less than half full, and the panel itself…
Stephen Collinson from Agence France-Presse identifies the Israeli government as the greatest obstacle to peace between Israel and the Palestinians and President Obama doesn’t really disagree. From last night’s press conference: PRESIDENT OBAMA: Okay. Stephen Collinson, AFP. QUESTION: Mr. President,…
Jeff Blankfort writes: I haven’t had time to read the J Street poll carefully, but I am stunned by this question if Goldfarb properly quoted it in the Weekly Standard: “More than that, a majority of respondents (53 percent) disagreed…
Tom Ricks post today at Foreign Policy: The more I read Haaretz, the more worried I get: Israel Defense Forces soldiers did not consider medical teams as entitled to receive the special protection granted to them within the framework of…
My friend Peter Voskamp sent me this thought experiment: I was reading something today about the Russian incursion into Georgia last August and it got me to thinking: remember the almost universal outrage aimed at those murderous Russians, blamed for…
From Foreign Policy: “As Secretary Clinton remarked last week, President Bashir and the government in Khartoum will be held responsible for each death that occurs in those camps caused by their expulsion of the aid workers,” Wood said. That was…