a startling piece of reporting by Charles Levinson in the Wall Street Journal–a hideous bookend to Max Blumenthal’s bravura reporting for alternet. How long a chapter is this in the history of my tribe? When do we get to turn…
What Bernie Madoff has done for the financial reservoirs of the Modern Orthodox community of Manhattan, the Israel-defenders are doing to genuine concerns about antisemitism, watering them down hopelessly. A friend writes: I’m struck by how younger bloggers like Matt…
The AP reports that Obama ate dinner Tuesday night, and surely nodded his head alot, at George Will’s house. Who was there? David Brooks, William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer. Two fullblown neocons, one merely neoconnish, all tragically wrong on Iraq, all…
Osama bin Laden’s threatening statement yesterday only reinforces the awareness we all have that an aching grievance undealt-with invites extremist response. Tim McVeigh was executed, yes, but even the federal government understood that he acted in part because of a…
This made my day: the 10 Jews who chained themselves across the driveway of the Israeli consulate in L.A. as 50 others demonstrated. This is huge. We’re with you brothers and sisters, here on the east coast–like a tree that…
Here is a really smart piece by Trita Parsi on Huffpo saying that notwithstanding the neocons’ (they won’t go away) claims, Iran has limited connections to Hamas (as opposed to Hezbollah) and that it has all but washed its hands…
One of my Muslim friends writes: Remember when I was telling you about ‘moderate’ and ‘liberal’ Muslim reformers? Well the suspicion is that they’re lionized for their views about Israel. Here’s one that liberals and Zionists love: Irshad Manji, published…
Proof of Walt and Mearsheimer’s idea has come with Congress’s overwhelming vote for Israel at a time when the world is condemning Gaza and the Democratic grassroots are horrified. It’s about elite control of foreign policy. The great Rami Khouri…
David Frum’s guide on how to Watch the Gaza War. All the cool Israeli propaganda videos showing Arab contempt for civilians.