God bless Barack Obama, at today’s hearing he called for regional talks to try and stabilize Iraq and get us and our children out of there. Talk to Iran! Drudge is running it as his main headline (to this Breitbart…
I generally keep my crushes off this blog but every man has his limits. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic congresswoman from Ft. Lauderdale, FL, is sexy. Sometimes I just gaze at her on CSPAN. She has an elegant horsey face–my…
The other day I quoted two Israelis saying that Americans don’t understand the normalness of Israel. It is a heroic place to American Jews, most of whom have never been there and have a fantasy of a heroic valiant place,…
During the event I attended Saturday at the Arab arts center in New York, Eitan Bronstein, the visiting Israeli activist, made a crucial point regarding the American conversation about Israel/Palestine. He and his tour had been in Chicago when he…
Yesterday I attended a touring presentation, sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, of an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian speaking on the Nakba and the Right of Return. About 30 people came to an Arab group’s space near Wall…
Here is scholar Jerome Slater’s take on the Times coverage of the southern Israeli town of Sderot: “Yesterday’s New York Times carried a frontpage story, meant to be heartwarming, about how Israelis and other Jews are rallying around the residents…
Daniel Kurtzer is a big deal. He’s an Obama surrogate and a former ambassador to Egypt and Israel under Clinton and Bush II. His new book, written with Scott Lasensky of the U.S. Institute for Peace, is called Negotiating Arab-Israeli…
Jacob Heilbrunn’s book on neocons teased the public with boldfaced back-cover suggestions of a neocon cabal and then Heilbrunn soberly denied he meant any such thing when he was at forums. I feel I’ve been taken in by the same…
My wife threw out my April Commentary–too long in the bathroom, I think–and so I can’t quote from R.R. Reno’s wonderful piece about working on oil-drilling crews in Wyoming (it’s only abstracted here). A nice contribution to the literature of…