The other day Dan Fleshler took me to task me for my sarcastic refrain, “There is no Israel lobby.” He called it a “glib distraction.” He said everyone acknowledges there is an Israel lobby, the real question is how much…
According to the AIPAC website, tomorrow in New York, Peter Beinart, a columnist for Time and the Washington Post and a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, will be giving a “briefing” to “discuss Jewish involvement in American politics….
Here’s a news account that Obama called Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni while she was visiting the U.S. to offer his condolences on the latest Israeli victims of terror and make the right noises about a non-nuclear Iran and Israel’s…
The Washington Times today prints a letter from James J. David, a retired general in Georgia, eloquently calling for sanctions against Israel in light of the unending violence in Gaza/Jerusalem: It seems that this seesaw retaliation will never end, not…
I found David Wurmser’s speech last week frightening. He said that he was able to read “the code” on Ahmadinejad, which revealed that the Iranian president is a messianic Hitler who wants to destroy the west. Wurmser was Vice President’s…
Promoting his new book about the neverending peace process, Aaron David Miller writes in the L.A. Times today that Jimmy Carter wrote a “bad book” about Israel/Palestine, and Walt and Mearsheimer wrote a “bad book” about the Israel lobby. The…
I spent a lot of time with Zionists yesterday. I won’t say where, it’s a personal connection that I treasure. Dear old friends, a couple of whom I utterly love. They don’t even know about my blogging activities or if…
Going into the basement conference room of a law firm on 6th Avenue in New York yesterday to hear former Cheney adviser David Wurmser speak on “What’s at Stake for the West in Lebanon?” I was afraid that the subject,…
The great editor Gene Roberts used to say that big stories don’t break, they ooze. Certainly this is the case with Obama’s meeting with 100 Cleveland Jews a week back, which I believe was merely monumental. The New York Jewish…