Every week or so in Haaretz, Shmuel Rosner rates American presidential candidates on Who is best for Israel? Giuliani is usually first, what with all the neocons in his braintrust, and Hillary is not that far behind. Ron Paul is…
When Condoleezza Rice met last September with Jewish leaders at the home of the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Haaretz editor David Landau told her that Israel was a “failed state” politically that needed to be “raped” by the United States….
A couple weeks back I came out for a two-state solution–the “peace process”–and Saif Ammous, who generally endorses stuff I write, scoffed at me. I have to post our dialogue on the question. Will get to it soon. In the…
It seems that American Jews have become the go-to-guys for politicians taking on–or playing up–the threat of radical Islam. Ten days ago the Times Magazine published a fine piece of reporting from Kenya about Joseph Lekuton, an M.P. from a…
Author Jennifer Anne Moses was Shmuel Rosner’s guest at Ha’aretz earlier this week. She is a religious Jew living in Louisiana and points out, very sensibly, that when someone says “Jesus loves you” at the grocery store, you don’t have…
Jerome Slater, author of an important paper on the American press’s failures to tell us just how bad life is in Palestine (in stark comparison to the Israeli press’s achievement in the same area), has offered me another critique of…
Celebrity has its uses. Two Palestinian villages have now called on Susan Sarandon to repudiate diamond-magnate Lev Leviev. So the settlements issue is creeping into the American debate. And today already the Israeli/Palestinian talks have broken down over the expansion…
Who would have ever guessed that New York protests of the Israeli settlements would command media attention? Well it’s happening. Susan Sarandon’s “representative” has told the New York Post that the star has no “ties” to Leviev, the Russian-Israeli jeweler…
At the risk of sacrilege, I left the latest Commentary, with Hillel Halkin’s piece on the “achievement” of the settlements, in the bathroom, anticipating that during the holiday festivities I might have a few quiet moments to share with it….