A couple of readers have pointed out that the IDF has suspended the soldiers who exposed their buttocks to Palestinian shepherds outside of Hebron. Good for the Israelis. Though I wonder how many other incidents of this character take place…
One of my themes on this blog is that our policymaking in the Mideast will stay broken until Jews have the courage to openly describe and, if they need to, challenge the construction of Jewish identity. The problem with the…
Here is a cool memorandum written by Richard Nixon in ’69, to his Secy of State William Rogers and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. It was sent along to me by scholar Roland Popp, who dug it up in the…
A smart reader from Virginia has pointed out that my “shock” yesterday over the statement in a Condi Rice biography that the war was “promoted” to help Israel is callow. Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay writes: I agree that the war was not…
Here is Michael Lerner, on why Obama’s Israel straddle is going to give him a political hernia: In recent days, we at Tikkun magazine have had hundreds of emails from young Jews distraught at the television images of tens of…
Speaking of how our Israel policy is made, here is an excerpt from an interview by an Israeli TV reporter of Sec’y of State Condoleezza Rice two weeks ago. What is remarkable in this interview is that Gil Tamary, the…
A friend just got the latest YIVO bulletin, which is not available at the Yiddish institute’s website, and reports the following: It includes a full page diatribe against Walt-Mearsheimer that concludes that W and M “presented a one-sided version of…
Is there an Israel lobby? Barry Lando, a former producer for “60 Minutes,” writes: A few years back I did a report on AIPAC for “60 Minutes” with Mike Wallace. One after another, all the congressional offices I contacted confirmed…
From what I saw and read of the Dems’ debate last night, Israel/Palestine was not mentioned. The blackout continues. Indeed, the only reference I’ve seen in presidential politics to what I consider the most important issue the country faces was…