Syria Comment has as usual a clear eye on matters Middle East. Joshua Landis says the Israeli attacks on Lebanon are an effort to cut Lebanon off from Syria so that Hizbullah will be isolated and unable to resupply itself….
George Ajjan has an amusing item on Why Iran’s President Ahmadinejad never wears a tie. Ajjan heard this from an unnamed Iranian friend: Shortly after the revolution…the tie itself began being associated with “Western imperialism”, especially after Ayatollah Khomeini branded…
Two newly-published reports suggest that the first President Bush, George H.W. Bush, lost his bid for a second term in the 1992 general election because of the Israel lobby. First there’s yesterday’s Washington Post Magazine piece on the lobby. It…
The Washington Post today today has the courage to run a cover article in its magazine with the question, “Does the Israel Lobby Have Too Much Power?” Hats off to the Post! It has done what real journalists should have…
Wall Yes, he’s my friend, but he’s good, out there, bleak but grasping at hope, and his show, at the ADD Gallery in Hudson, N.Y., has been extended through the end of the month.
A year ago neocons Richard Perle and Michael Rubin and the former Israeli Ambassador Dore Gold and an Israeli general had a panel at the American Enterprise Institute, and released an elaborate booklet with colored charts inside, putting forward the…
When I went to Syria in January (to visit my wife’s cousin who teaches in Damascus), I signed a visa application on which I had to check a box saying that I had never been to “Occupied Palestine.” I’d never…
The Independent publishes newly-discovered evidence that a Polish barber named Kosminski was the serial murderer who killed 5 prostitutes in London in 1888, and says he was never questioned because he was insane. The story turns on a renovated police…
Jason Horowitz’s fine piece on the Lieberman-Lamont race in this week’s Observer contains a stretcher, or 2, from N.Y. Congressman Anthony Weiner: ‘[T]he Palestinian position seems to be perfect for the Internet world of pithy back-and-forth and 30-second You Tube…