Jeff Blankfort points out that my pickup on “Obama’s Iran braintrust” last night was wrong. Oh my. Shouldn’t blog late at night when I should be having connubial bliss. Then he joins in the conversation with Jack Ross on whether…
Rejoice. We always knew this is what the election was about. There are very hopeful signs in this list of Obama experts giving him advice re Iran. Says Muhammad Idrees Ahmad: It is quite significant that among the experts is…
Gideon Levy in Haaretz can talk baldly about the great religious issue of this campaign, whether Obama is for Israel or not. Here we can only talk about the Christian right. Levy urges Obama to talk to Iran and Hamas…
Jack Ross continues to be optimistic re Obama and Middle East policy. At some point all this is imponderable, but for now– The bottom line is that Obama is not going to do anything that would jeopardize rapproachment with Iran,…
Shmuel Rosner. What is there to say about this? That people of limited imagination, brutalized by unending war, with war as their only option, having urged the Iraq adventure on us, and rationalizing their own religious state with its obnoxious…
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…