The ADL is justy condemning the Arab media for its many “Holocaust” references in describing the Israeli attacks on Gaza. True, and regrettable. The ADL destroys any moral authority it might have, though, when it fails to mention, let alone…
Whatever you think of his conservative politics (and I don’t like ’em), John Sununu, Bush 41’s chief of staff and the former gov of New Hampshire, is a brilliant guy. Sununu is a nuclear engineer, a self-made man, and one…
Aaron David Miller was a negotiator for Bill Clinton at Camp David. Now he’s coming out with a book on the peace process called The Much Too Promised Land. The website suggests that the book will contain an open discussion…
Today I took part in a conference call with an Israeli lion, David Kimche, the former Mossad boss and Defence Ministry official. The call was organized by the Israel Policy Forum, which is pushing for a 2-state solution now. Kimche…
Only in Haaretz. Shmuel Rosner has a good piece on a Jewish gathering in Ohio at which two congressmen, Obama surrogate Adam Schiff (California) and Hillary surrogate Andrew Anthony Weiner (from what Rabbi Ellen Lippmann calls “the holy city of…
I don’t usually read “Who is a Jew?” articles that quote Israeli rabbis. They are always filled with How-many-angels-can-dance on the head of a pin arguments utterly devoid of spiritual meaning. And as far as I’m concerned, a foreign country…
In the Guardian, an Israeli minister warns that Palestinians may face a “holocaust” because of the rockets falling on Ashkelon and Sderot. Oh my god. Meantime, on Andrew Sullivan’s blog, there is this horrifying photo from Gaza of a Palestinian…
I finally caught Tim Russert’s question in the Cleveland debate Tuesday night about whether Obama would reject Louis Farrakhan’s support, a man who once called Judaism “a gutter religion.” Russert’s follow up was, ” What do you do to assure…
Obama’s meeting with 100 Cleveland Jews is taking on the same kind of resonance as Kennedy’s talk about the Pope to the Protestant ministers in Houston in 1960. Except Obama came to kiss a ring, not unkiss it! Now the…