Holdout neocon Barry Rubin, at a Harvard website: this is not an issue of Gaza or of Israel alone. The great issue of our era, of our remaining lifetimes, is the battle between radical Islamismâwhether using the tactic of terrorism…
Israeli tanks have reportedly entered Gaza. Where are all the liberal internationalists? Another thing: They always lectured us about the need to support moderates over extremists in democratic societies. Where is the moderation in Israel?
between this latest suicide bombing in Pakistan–further destabilizing that country and terrifying my reform-minded Islamic friends– and the slaughter in Gaza?
Richard Witty, who has a sneaker for Chabad (so do I; I had fun in the Chabad House in suburban Philly), sends me this Haaretz column by the usually reliable Bradley Burston in which he is shocked by the Mumbai…
A lot of the stuff I write for this blog is critical or angry or mocking, reflecting my angst over the state of the Jews and my anger at the neocons for pushing the Iraq War. Today I’m sitting down…
Pete Seeger says that political change happens in the capillaries. That’s where all the movement goes on. And I like to say that our kids will lead us. They’re smarter than we are. (And that Americans must lead the Middle…
The other night in Brooklyn, on the Anti-Occupation tour that will soon come to your little town, there was a great dialogue in the Methodist church in Park Slope over the Jewish idea of chosenness. I reported some of this…
The Connecticut senator has now put his name on the next version of Obsession, the video that says Islamists are in your town and about to burn down your church. “It’s definitely here,” Lieberman says. I wish I had made…
The highly-evolved Financial Times calls Damascus the “Prague’ of the Arab world–cheap, with a beautiful old city, it has become the cool place for internationals to study Arabic. I’d add these elements: Arab hospitality and the incredible Roman ruins, everywhere….