A couple thoughts on today’s news, the Justice Department’s move to drop its case against two former Israel lobbyists on espionage-related charges. –It’s common in the press to argue that the indicted lobbyists Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, then of…
Bruce Wolman writes: Last week I asked the question, “Who is the bigger obtstacle to peace, Netanyahu or Ahmadinejad?” Aluf Benn of Ha’aretz goes a long way towards answering the question this morning: “Is Netanyahu bringing Israel closer to a…
A real divide inside the pro-Israel organizations, a fight for the soul of the Jewish leadership. Just a few days in advance of the AIPAC policy conference, “J Street” is sending a shot across AIPAC’s bow by launching a public…
Bernard-Henri Levy on Huffington Post: For the honor and the salvation of those still in Rwanda and Darfur, in solidarity with the homosexuals hanged in Tehran or imprisoned in Cuba, for the love of newlyweds burned alive in Afghanistan or…
Yesterday Marty Peretz at the New Republic offered his readers a scoop regarding Roger Cohen’s NYT column (which gives Peretz high blood pressure). Headlined “The New York Times Downgrades Roger Cohen,” the report was surmise: “[T]he troubled Times no longer…
Norman H. Olsen, a former senior United States Foreign Service officer who served in the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, writing in the Christian Science Monitor:[Netanyahu’s] policies may be misguided, but his intellectual honesty may prove salutary. The Israeli right…
Jeff Blankfort writes: This column in the Washington Post seems to be the most convincing piece yet that Israel will attack Iran on its schedule unless Obama publicly says he has told Israel not to. Should Israel launch an attack…
Jeff Blankfort writes: This column in the Washington Post seems to be the most convincing piece yet that Israel will attack Iran on its schedule unless Obama publicly says he has told Israel not to. Should Israel launch an attack…
A friend picked up my earlier post questioning a Persian translation by Michael Rubin and offered character notes for the novelist who finally puts the neocons in a story: He has the conscience of a propagandist. Though his scholarly writings…