Ilene Cohen writes: Richard Falk in this interview is, as always, unflappable and indefatigable. He is challenged by the BBC interviewer that the Israelis “dismiss” him because he is “biased,” and following the interview, an Israeli spokesperson is quoted as…
Mohammad of Vancouver responds to Obama’s Nowruz greetings to the Iranian people and leaders, on the occasion of the Zoroastrian new year: Obama is setting himself up for a difficult task, and his new year message is not going to…
MJ Rosenberg has a genius post about Israeli President Shimon Peres sending his New Year’s greeting to Iran right on the heels of Obama’s greeting to Iran. I hear that the White House is furious. Today’s Times reports that when…
A day after The Times underplayed Obama’s video outreach to the Iranians, the newspaper of record gets the significance of his Nowruz (Zoroastrian new year) statement. Huge. Death knell to the neocons. Obama concluded the statement, “Thank you, and Eid-eh…
The latest piece to echo this conventional wisdom is in the Washington Post. I like this conventional wisdom. Netanyahu still doesn’t seem to get it. They’re prevaricating about settlements, and insisting on the Permanent War theory of the Islamic world….
As any regular visitor to this site knows, I have conflicted feelings about my relationship to the Jewish community. Though I am always proudly Jewish, I announce that I am assimilating, anti-Zionist, non-Zionist, realist, leftist. I have a love-hate thing…
Brilliant piece by Roger Cohen in today’s Times saying, Goddamnit, the Iranians are a lot like us, let’s start talking to them. In a word: heretical. A few comments ahead of the excerpt, then more comment below. First, Cohen’s view…
Roger Cohen has a brilliant column in today’s Times in which he repeats his epiphany of the last 2 months: his utter shame over Gaza. Then he moves to pure realism: about Israel’s threat to its neighbors and the importance…
Writes a friend: “Cognitive dissonance” isn’t the same for the Israel loyalists as it is for most other Americans. They see Israel as part of America, and America as a member of Israel’s family. Nothing anyone does for Israel while…