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….
suggesting that 40 years from now we could have a Muslim president, writes a non-Muslim friend who is voting for Obama with regrets because he threw Khalidi under the bus.
Some days I wake up and realize: We are about to win. Jewishness is about to stop being selfish. Suddenly all the parochial voices are going to feel very ancient and young people will reject their counsel. This attack by…
“I hope that in the next century we will come to terms with our abysmal ignorance of the Muslim world. Muslims aren’t a bunch of wackos and nuts. They are decent, brilliant, talented people with a great civilization and traditions…
Yesterday I teed off on a New Yorker profile of Hank Greenberg that I felt had provided cover to Greenberg’s Israel-centered views of the Middle East. I don’t keep up on the New Yorker, but a friend sent along the…
Here is a very beautiful headline in the Brown Daily Herald. The event was David Horowitz saying that the Palestinians were completely wrong, with no justice on their side at all, and Jimmy Carter is a Jew-hater, and Zionism is…
I’m always the last to know. Today I got an email from Saudi Arabia about Colin Powell’s beautiful statement last Sunday on Meet the Press about Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, the 20-year-old soldier, who was Muslim, killed in Iraq. Because…
Ralph Seliger writes: If my feelings about Iraq were so centered on Israel, wouldn’t I have continued to support the invasion even after the UN Security Council had voted against it? To me, the nightmare scenario is defining the Israeli-Arab…