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…
Jim Lobe has a devastatingly-smart analysis of the new State Department, including the bad news that Dennis Ross seems to have legs, on the 7th floor, guiding Iran policy, and that Hillary is reading neocon thinktank papers. Ideas, ideas, ideas–the…
A sharp friend makes an interesting observation about Roger Cohen’s important op-ed about Iran that appeared in the New York Times on March 1: It goes very far in challenging the MSM and high establishment gospel that Iran is an…
Everyone who comes to this site should be aware that right now the point of the lance is Times columnist Roger Cohen, who, “shamed” by Gaza, has done the best work on Israel/Palestine at the Times (I know, not a…
Dennis Ross is a diplomat pretty high in the State Department under Hillary Clinton. He was lately appointed a special adviser on the Persian Gulf/Iran. Till lately, Ross was chairman of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, an Israeli thinktank….
Mohammad of Vancouver writes: It was first reported on Iran’s Press TV that Iran has asked Interpol to investigate the role of high Israeli officials in the war crimes committed against Gaza. After that, the news that the International Criminal…
We reported here on Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb’s trip to Iran. Roger Cohen reported on his trip to Iran. And now from AFP: Top US film actress Annette Bening, in Iran as part of a Hollywood delegation, said on Sunday she…