This morning C-Span rebroadcast a panel on religion organized by the neoconservative Hudson Institute a month ago. Paul Marshall, a Hudson fellow, explained that Ahmed Chalabi had regained status in Iraq– notwithstanding his collaborationist past with Perle and Feith– not…
Mazin Qumsiyeh writes in an email: Associated Press Story: “The two men selected to serve as Hillary Clinton’s deputy secretaries of state, Jacob Lew and James Steinberg, also filed financial disclosure forms. Lew, a former Clinton administration official who recently…
Yakov offers this open letter to Abe Foxman: Abe, It’s time to go. I have been following your updates on the A.D.L. page very closely and I am frightened for you. I’m concerned that you have been too busy doing…
An open letter to Mark Green from Phil Weiss: Dear Mark, You were always an inspiration to me as a young leftie. I loved the fact that you got your start with Nader. I had good friends who worked for…
Jonathan Chait writes in the New Republic: Israel’s supporters do have a distressing tendency to define their position in maximalist terms. Witness the absurd controversy that surrounded Barack Obama’s banal observation last year that “nobody has suffered more than the…
AC writes: New [Al-Jazeera English] video just in from Gaz — Afghanistan. Afghan villagers are shown in anguish over the killings of relatives by U.S. forces. One government employee who lost five of his family members in the strike is…
I don’t always write in joy, but today I’m writing in joy. Below are two very important emails from Arab correspondents, half a world away from one another, but offering the same important message: Modern communications are building bridges between…
Mohammad of Vancouver is angered by Obama’s decision to continue missile strikes at remote villages in Waziristan section of Pakistan: Sorry to let everyone know, I am breaking my silence on Obama. I’m losing some of my hope on Obama….
Ezra Klein says it’s not dangerous to one’s career to criticize Israel, and cites the case of Stephen Walt, who got a big book contract and now a blog at Foreign Policy. Klein is simply wrong. First of all, Walt,…