I’m hopeful about President Obama’s Middle East policy. Yesterday he even referred obliquely to Palestinian suffering. Call me naive, but I think he has the unique ability to triangulate the pro-Israel crowd with the pro-Palestinian crowd, and end that bloody…
[The second in a series of postings by James North, who has been exploring the issues surrounding the save Darfur campaign] My guides to Darfur are the opposite of instant experts. Julie Flint has been covering the Sudan since 1992,…
Rabbi Michael Lerner went to a conference on “dialogue” in Saudi Arabia and was impressed by the humanity of the Saudis. He has filed this long report on a dinner table conversation he had with several members of Saudi King…
Today I’ve got a guest blogger who I’m hoping will make more appearances in the days and years (touch wood) to come, the author and traveler James North (that’s his pen-name; I’ve known him for more than 30 years as…
I’m late for the neocon bus! Last week the Washington Post ran an Op-Ed by a Harvard Law student calling for an investigation of the National Endowment for the Humanities for its funding of Arabic instruction materials. The student, who…
John McCain has campaigned with a Rev. Rod Parsley, who has called Islam a–well, take it from Rod: America was founded in part with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed. And I believe September 11, 2001, was a…
You cannot honestly describe the formation of Middle East policy without acknowledging that Jews are principals in the establishment, and Jewish wealth is a significant factor in public life.
Tonight I caught C-Span’s Book TV, Philip Shenon of the New York Times talking about his 9/11 Commission book to Michael Duffy of Time Mag. Shenon’s argument is that there was massive bungling in the intelligence agencies that resulted in…
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,…