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…
The New Yorker ran a short profile of Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg of AIG last week that contained a curious statement: In the current election, he’s supporting John McCain, largely because of the Arizonan’s support for the war in Iraq….
Everyone is talking about Jim Lobe’s post on a recent report justifying war on Iran, crafted by Michael Rubin of AEI and Michael Makovsky (who Lobe says worked for Doug Feith to manipulate the intelligence on Iraq and had emigrated…
A former instructor at the Army Intelligence School, Howard Lurie writes in my old paper, the Philadelphia Daily News, about the likelihood of an Israeli attack on Iran before November 4, and offers some interesting game theory: Given his views…
Today on Fresh Air, Terry Gross asked former CIA officer Robert Baer to tell her some good news, and he said, Olmert said it this week; the key to peace in the Middle East is to give up the West…
I just learned that the new Israel lobby, J Street, played a key role in dealing that astonishing defeat to AIPAC in Congress last week–in which a coalition of peace groups and religious groups spearheaded by the National Iranian American…
The UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, begins meeting in Vienna with the focus on Iran. But it has also put Israeli nukes on the agenda, at the request of Israel’s Arab neighbors. You see: Israel is not the only country…