From Phil Weiss: Last night I posted a comment by my new friend Mohammad on Gaza in which he called it “genocide.” I felt somewhat uncomfortable with the word, but I am trying to get this blog open to Muslim/Arab…
Whatever Barack Obama is or isn’t, a mystery we will get to unfold for many years, we know who George Bush is: a tragic figure. Look at him now. He’s crumpled, thin, gray, and angry. I remember him eight years…
Here is a really smart piece by Trita Parsi on Huffpo saying that notwithstanding the neocons’ (they won’t go away) claims, Iran has limited connections to Hamas (as opposed to Hezbollah) and that it has all but washed its hands…
Watching Hill on the Hill, I’m impressed. She’s signalling a brave new mood, and sounding some of the right notes. The usual defense of Israel’s right to defend itself, but no red meat for the carnivores. Talks about “smart power.”…
At 41, Mohammad has led a varied life. He moved to Canada from Iran in 1988, 3 months before the Iran-Iraq war ended, having completed his military service. Now an artist-cum-curator of contemporary art, he reads Philosophy and Iranian studies….
NY Times reports: President George W. Bush rejected a plea from Israel last year to help it raid Iran’s main nuclear complex… Israel’s request was for specialized bunker-busting bombs that it wanted for an attack that tentatively involved flying over…
Steve Walt’s new blog points out that Rick Warren is not just scary about gays, but about Ahmadinejad: Appearing on Fox News on December 3, Warren openly endorsed host Sean Hannity’s declaration that “we need to take him [Iranian President…
More fuel for my belief that the power of the lobby has peaked: Trita Parsi, realist, writing about why Obama doesn’t need more sanctions against Iran, he already has the tools to do this diplomatically… The neoconservatives really are passing…
I can’t be alone in saying that the Brad Sherman moment with the auto executives the other day, in which he asked who had flown commercial to D.C. and then who was prepared to sell his plane and fly back…