Jack Ross, who is writing a book about anti-Zionist rabbis, writes re the post on Rabbi Eric Yoffie’s religious nationalism: While I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment you express, I feel that once again you miss an important point. That…
Jack Ross writes: In this past decade, my politics evolved from committed Green, which had so much invested in the narrative of the founding of the Republican Party on the slavery question, to jaded classical liberal, with at least a…
Jack Ross: It looks like we’re going to have the best that could have been hoped for, a unity government of the four large parties led by Livni. Last night I was resigned to such led by Netanyahu; either way…
Jack Ross writes: Leaving all moral and ethical considerations aside, what Herzl proposed in 1897, that all of the world’s then-20 million Jews settle in a historic Palestine then populated by 1 million Arabs, while practically absurd, was theoretically viable,…
This morning C-Span rebroadcast a panel on religion organized by the neoconservative Hudson Institute a month ago. Paul Marshall, a Hudson fellow, explained that Ahmed Chalabi had regained status in Iraq– notwithstanding his collaborationist past with Perle and Feith– not…
Yesterday Susie Kneedler took a swipe at David Ignatius of the Washington Post. Jack Ross defends him: He supported Iraq like the whole Washington establishment (publicly at least, it may have been a transparent facade like with Chris Matthews but…
A couple weeks back Phil Weiss did a post imagining what he would have done in other circumstances. Jack Ross offers his list: Born c. 1860 in Germany – I would have been a proud assimilated German citizen of Jewish…
Jack Ross writes: Last night my friend Richard and I watched my DVD of Arguing The World, which I had not watched in almost two years. It has been on the basis of my knowledge of neoconservatism, which I was…
Jack Ross writes: I have my drawn out theoretical explanations for why America and Israel became as inextricably linked as they did, but Glenn Greenwald has illuminated a very simple shorthand – what has bound America and Israel together is…