Lucianne Goldberg had a wonderful expression for Bill Clinton’s predicament. She said that when he said, “I did not have sex with that woman,” he drank the Strontium-90. After that it was just a question of how long it would…
Whenever I read about China’s horrifying crackdown on Tibet, I’m struck by the different ways the media report the Palestinian situation and the Tibetan one. There are several similarities between the two disfranchised peoples–60 years of statelessness, an utter imbalance…
You remember Merrill McPeak, the tall, lean retired general and military adviser for Obama who said last week that Bill Clinton was behaving like Joe McCarthy? Well in The American Spectator, McPeak is accused of a lack of political correctness…
Like other progressive Zionist groups, Brit Tzedek is utterly engaged right now out of the belief that it’s now or never for the two-state deal. If it doesn’t happen now there will be chaos and Hamas on the Palestinian side…
Last night my wife and I went to a sophisticated dinner party in the Hudson Valley. Pheasant, a lavish cheese plate with dessert. There was grace before the meal; thank god no reference to Jesus Christ. A very liberal crowd….
More on Arafat’s supposed intransigence. In summer 2001 Jerome Slater published this article in the Political Science Quarterly demonstrating that Arafat had repeatedly sought to make a peace with Israel and that the best he’d gotten was an offer at…
Yesterday the Israel Policy Forum called on Secretary Rice to “engage Hamas” so as to keep the peace process alive and protect American interests in the Middle East. The statement was evenhanded. It spoke of “deaths and suffering” on both…
Haaretz has an AP story saying that the guy who ran the prostitution ring that was former N.Y. Governor Eliot Spitzer’s downfall has an Israeli passport. Seems he’s an Israeli. U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael H. Dolinger ordered Mark Brener, 62,…
On March 8, Daniel Schorr commented on NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday” that Democrats always find a way not to get along. He then said (I was driving, not taking notes): As people used to say about Yassir Arafat, he never…