Last night I went to hear Rashid Khalidi speak at the Brooklyn Reform synagogue, Beth Elohim. A gorgeous temple, and before giving Khalidi the microphone at the altar, Rabbi Andy Bachman went down the list of groups that had sponsored…
Here’s another great shot by Sameh Habeeb from his show at the Dadabase Gallery in Vancouver of photos from Gaza, called Victim’s Victims. Habeeb worked for Iranian television during the onslaught, so I am going to assume that this journalist…
“For me, the wonder was modern Israel, the greatest wonders being Jews with guns, and not just .22s, but Uzis and M-16s and bigger guns than these, grenade-spitting guns, great barking machine guns. On a bus tour across the Galilee,…
From Haaretz’s shrewd Amir Oren, who of course brings in the American elections (i.e., the power of Jews in the American political process): Make no mistake about the Obama administration, when it comes to Iran: Its policy differs from that…
Bruce Wolman writes: Incoming Israeli P.M. Bibi Netanyahu tells Jeffrey Goldberg: “Iran is a composite leadership, but in that composite leadership there are elements of wide-eyed fanaticism that do not exist right now in any other would-be nuclear power in…
From the JTA report on the Zionist Organization of America’s lunch on Capitol Hill last week. Best moments belong to Shelley Berkley. Emphasis mine: Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) joked that she always brings [ZOA President] Mort Klein her ZOA membership…
The Guardian on all the heat that Roger Cohen is getting for being open-minded about Iran: Cohen said he was stunned by the vehemence of the response, an impression exacerbated when he visited exiled Iranian Jews in California and was…
Yesterday I noted that, dispelling the usual hypocrisy that surrounds the discussion, Martin Indyk spoke openly of Israel’s nuclear weapons when taking a realist view of Iran’s nuclear program. Here is Stephen Zunes, in an interview with Kourosh Ziabari of…
Yesterday I caught part of PBS travel guru Rick Steves’s wonderful trip to Iran on television. His whole message was great, till he spoke of “family values” in Iran. That’s why people support the Islamic republic, he said, they have…