Jewish Israeli political parties, including the “centrist” Kadima party, are working to get the Palestinian political party Balad disqualified from the upcoming Israeli elections. Feeding off the current 90% approval for the Gaza war among Israelis, MK Avigdor Lieberman, the…
In the Christian Science Monitor, longtime State Department staffer Norman Olsen urges Obama to signal a shift in course and not name the “traditional” (i.e. peace-processor/Israel’s lawyer) Dennis Ross, and to “empower the envoy to engage with all parties to…
I’m no longer much of a demo kind of guy but I went to the pro-Palestinian demonstration in Times Square today to express my solidarity with the battered people of Gaza. On the way there I saw a billboard with…
Rage against Israel and rising support for Islamists in Egypt was page 1 in today’s Times. Incredibly, Commentary Magazine promptly poohpoohed the story out of its insistence that the Gaza operation, like the Iraq one before it, is just peachy-keen….
I was just at dinner bragging to my wife about my day and telling her about my “I’m not a post-Zionist, I’m an anti-Zionist,” declaration. My wife said, “Be a post-Zionist! It means that old construct is worn out and…
Earlier today I posted that amazing North Carolina retired Marine’s Gaza analysis in the Times. One thing it says to me is that there is a potential Red-state/Blue-state alliance over Middle East policy: limpwristed blue-state idealists like myself who are…
A great Israeli, former IAF captain Yonotan Shapira, interviewed on BBC: “If Obama will go into the White House and continue to act like a slave and not like a leader, I don’t see any change coming. If he continues…
An astonishing comment to the New York Times. I republish it in full because it is so much better than anything I can say, because it is reflective of American opinion/expertise post-Iraq, and because it puts to utter shame our…
Adam Horowitz writes: The Rasmussen poll said that Democrats by 55 to 31 were opposed to Israel’s assault on Gaza last week, numbers that have surely grown. The following numbers on the Solidarity with Israel bill that passed the House…