A friend has passed along Norman Pearlstine’s piece in WSJ urging Michael Mukasey to drop the AIPAC case. Pearlstine argues that the lobbyists were performing routine business: there have been few prosecutions of government leakers for espionage in recent decades…
The endorsement by Pat Robertson of pro-abortion candidate Rudy Giuliani this week is widely seen as a sign that the evangelical Christian vote, which has scared the bejesus out of a lot of people in blue states for the last…
When I visited Bethlehem a year back, I got the view north back to Jerusalem–beyond the all-but-encircling concrete barrier–of a sugarloaf of a hill with a gleaming settlement on it. Har Homa was built in the late ’90s, and its…
One of my mentors in Israel/Palestine issues is Boston-area activist Hilda Silverman. She is at once very Jewish (which gives me great comfort) and very concerned with Palestinian human rights. The other day she sent out the following note to…
Last Sunday I went to the CAMERA conference on “Jewish defamers of Israel” and it took me a day or two to recognize what the news was: a speech in which CAMERA president Andrea Levin said that the pro-Israel lobbying…
Here is a wonderful blog item by Scott MacLeod of Time Magazine, about Condoleezza Rice’s testimony before the House yesterday. The perspicacious MacLeod notes Condi’s words doubting the two-state solution. Our concern is growing that without a serious political prospect…
Yesterday CAMERA (the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) held a conference on fighting “Jewish defamers of Israel.” A couple hundred people in the basement of the Park Avenue Synagogue– that beacon to assimilationist German Jews. I…
I went to a party last night in the city and met an Israeli. Handsome, tall, a chest as broad as a desk. We talked about movement between the U.S. and Israel, and I asked him about the Israeli reputation…
One of Israel’s most fascinating functions for American Jewry is, It is our id. Here we have responsibility, logic, power, and indirection. There they have brawn, testosterone, impulse, straightforwardness. When I was young, women used to say that over in…