From the Jerusalem Post: While refusing to go into detail about the military option to foil Iran’s nuclear program, Peres did say that Israel couldn’t carry out any strike against the Islamic republic without America. “We certainly cannot go it…
Here’s further evidence that Obama will be hawkish on Iran (and pushy about Israeli intransigence on the two-state solution). A piece in the Nation by Robert Dreyfuss on Dennis Ross’s power over Iran policy at the State Department. (This really…
Amir Oren in Haaretz says that Obama has accepted Israel’s view of the global danger of a nuclear Iran and may countenance an Israeli attack– and meanwhile won’t take any bull on settlements. Bruce Wolman writes: Wishful thinking by Oren,…
Here’s a wonderful event. Wayne Gilchrest, former congressman from Maryland, holds forth two days ago, at a forum on Capitol Hill, about the Israel lobby’s role in blocking a “more objective” policy in the Middle East. Watch this video and…
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…