Jack Ross writes: Seliger makes a number of serious distortions, I salute Dan Sisken for finding the goods to back up my contention that he is at odds with Meretz itself. And while I’m certainly not surrendering to despair on…
Readers of this blog must be aware by now–I am, anyway– that I have only a rudimentary understanding of religion, and the difference between religion and ideology. Here is Jack Ross, who goes “to a nice little lefty shul in…
Jeff Blankfort points out that my pickup on “Obama’s Iran braintrust” last night was wrong. Oh my. Shouldn’t blog late at night when I should be having connubial bliss. Then he joins in the conversation with Jack Ross on whether…
Jack Ross on the debate over chosenness and Israel: I’m crazy to be taking time to do this while I’m spending my last night in the house where I grew up, but here goes. The discussion goes to the very…
Again I’d state that I don’t know whether the Rahm pick is a great disaster or a possible opening. This stuff is complex. I believe Obama is a great leader/player, capable of being sphinxlike even to the lobby. You sense…
I’ve had very mixed feelings about Samantha Power, or Sampo as you call her, for all the reasons you alluded to on your blog though there are certainly worse people she could have nice things to say about then Richard…
Yesterday Jeff Blankfort and Jack Ross had a dialogue here about the unending question: what Barack Opaque Obama means for Middle East policy. Blankfort has responded: I appreciate Jack Ross’s contributions to your blog as well as his optimism, but…
Jack Ross writes from Brooklyn: I spent election night at my regular club, a folk oriented place in Red Hook, owned by a couple who knew Barack and Michelle in Chicago (the lady of the couple worked for the organization…
Amazing piece by the great Uri Avnery at antiwar.com, praying that Obama will ignore the Israel lobby and turn to the peace camp in Israel. 3 shattering excerpts, all emphases mine: Obama, on his part, has gone out of his…