Politico on Obama’s team. Leans toward Richardson at State, Hagel at Defense, Zinni as NSC, and keeps Samantha Power in the mix and nixes Susan Rice as NSC. Only alarm bell is Jane Harman as head of CIA, but seems…
Jack Ross had a more hopeful, and I am hoping, canny response to my post last night about Obama getting in bed with the Israel lobby in 2003: When I first read that bit about Obama speaking to Arab students…
Ralph Nader has taken up the USS Liberty cause, challenging John McCain over the 1967 attack/accident on Israel’s part that killed 34 American sailors. I never look into this myself. Because I know what I’d think–Nader says it’s a coverup,…
Here is how Obama threw Khalidi under the bus, per the JPost: Asked by a member of the Jewish community about the relationship during a campaign stop in Florida, Obama responded, “To pluck out one person who I know and…
Everyone is talking about Jim Lobe’s post on a recent report justifying war on Iran, crafted by Michael Rubin of AEI and Michael Makovsky (who Lobe says worked for Doug Feith to manipulate the intelligence on Iraq and had emigrated…
Jack Ross on my view that Colin Powell is deep down inside an Arabist: Though I haven’t checked the Commentary blog yet, I too have been surprised to see that the Republican attacks on Powell have not been neocon red…
Last night I mentioned an election report from Florida where a guy named Bob Kunst railed about Obama’s position on dividing Jerusalem and asked, Where are Jews on this? Jack Ross reports: Kunst is a real piece of work, take…
Alfred Lilienthal, a leading anti-Zionist writer, died last week. Here’s his obit from the Washington Post: Author, and Middle East expert, Alfred M. Lilienthal, Age 94, died peacefully Monday, October 6, at his home in Washington, DC. Born in New…
Jack Ross is taking me to task over my enthusiasm for the new group International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network: This is just a silly anarchist undertaking, not a Leninist one as I possibly feared but mired in a lot of peculiar…