This blog comes out of alienation from my own tribe. I was staggered in midlife to find that the people I’d grown up believing were the best/enlightened were as power-hungry and materialistic as anyone else in the U.S. and indifferent…
in that last post with the suggestion that that AIPAC friend of Larry Summers is under some journalistic obligation to declare her religion, Jewish. Yes, too far, bad boy. But I think part of the problem here is that Jewish…
Huffington Post gives a platform to Beth Dozoretz, a member of the AIPAC executive committee who has Israeli gov’t connections and helped deliver the Marc Rich pardon back when, to say the country needs Larry Summers as Obama’s next Treasury…
interview of McCain campaign mouthpiece Michael Goldfarb by Rick Sanchez of CNN in which Goldfarb states that Rashid Khalidi is “anti-semitic” and Sanchez mildly defends Kahlidi. At least Sanchez pounds Goldfarb when he says “we all know” of another person…
A smear on a good man–Khalidi–in the desperate last days of a presidential race is one of those thrilling political events that is supposed to produce spine-tingling rhetoric. Obama didn’t deliver, of course, because he’s tight with the Is lob….
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…
Last night I watched Andrew Bacevich on C-Span’s About Books program. (Some of it anyway; I surf.) The most interesting point he made is that the U.S. has to give up its sense of its own exceptionalism. We should be…
I am thankful for all the comments on the Ace Greenberg “Jewish geography” post of yesterday. One thing I’d say to Richard Witty is that he lives in the sticks; and I am talking about an establishment network. These guys…
The Law of Return’s loaded. The West Bank is full of guys from Brooklyn, or Minnesota, who need to live out their ethnocentric or racialist ideas on a biblical canvas. And the zeal of the converted tilts the entire state….