Yes, I’ve misrepresented a headline, but here’s the actual one: “Israel fears Obama may make peace with Iran.” Wait: Maybe in it’s in our interest to end 30 years of saber-rattling with a regional power? And maybe, as Trita Parsi…
Avraham Burg’s Holocaust book has broken as news in England, in the Independent: Benjamin Netanyahu, a front-runner for the Israeli premiership, has been severely criticised by a former Speaker of the Knesset and head of the Jewish Agency for comparing…
Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council says in the Guardian says that an Iranian bomb, and more bombs in the Middle East, is a horrifying prospect. Put all international energy into allowing enrichment, thereby allowing Iranian scientific prestige….
Here’s an august professor of Jewish civilization, Jacques Berlinerblau, who was on tv moderating Bob Shrum and David Frum last week and today is about to conduct a forum on “the Jewish vote,” who has noticed that Jews are getting…
Here’s the Democratic side of the Obama and the Jews argument: an official Obama video about his love for my people. The good news is that it features an Obama endorsement from David Goodman, the brother of civil rights martyr…
My friend Christopher Varley of Toronto writes: A friend has said to me, “I keep seeing/hearing reports that now that Tzipi Livni can’t get the ultra-orthodox into a coalition, Netanyahu is the favourite to win the election she will be…
The Times reports that an email is circulating among Jewish voters in Pennsylvania equating a vote for Obama with a vote for Hitler. Because of Ahmadinejad, presumably. That is the same link that emigre to Israel Gil Ronen has made,…
Here is Ira Glunts, a former IDF soldier, challenging Obama adviser and “soft neocon” Dennis Ross at Colgate University last week or so about Israel attacking Iran. “At 53:10 Ross says something like Israel is going to do what Israel…
The BBC says that the reported American raid into Syria that killed eight people, and which the Syrians are enraged about, may have a political root. With the Bush administration on the way out, this US military incursion may represent…