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….
Yesterday I saw Alan “Ace” Greenberg, the trader who built Bear Stearns, on Charlie Rose. Greenberg is 81 and a tough guy, he has the square head and unblinking eyes of a warrior in a Kurosawa movie. (And of course…
On Saturday night I had a new friend to dinner, a Russian Jew who lives in the city who I met a few months ago thru this blog. He grew up in Siberia, spent a year or two in St….
Former Air Force captain John Mearsheimer is tough. The co-author of The Israel Lobby could give a s–t that he gets disinvited from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and gets disbarred from his former haunt, the New York Times,…
Last night’s baseball celebration by the amazing Tampa Bay [Devil] Rays provided a moment of recognition for American Jews as powerful as the Sandy Koufax moments of 40 years ago. At midnight, on the podium accepting the American League championship…