A friend passed along this semi-desperate-sounding email from JINSA, the neocon thinktank that gave us the Iraq war (according to Colin Powell). He wondered whether it means JINSA is in trouble: The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is…
The Times of London is reporting that the west and Israel are moving toward a deal in which Israel makes concessions on the alleged peace process and is given the green light to attack Iran within a year. “Urgent!!!” writes…
Excellent reporting in the New York Jewish Week on a “divorce” in the birthright program that provides free trips to Israel for American Jews, 26 and under. Gone is Shlomo “Momo” Lifshitz, the largest Israeli provider of the trips, through…
From The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, June 16, 1895: I was indifferent to my Jewishness; let us say that it was beneath the level of my awareness. But just as anti-Semitism forces the half-hearted, cowardly, and self-seeking Jews into…
Steve Walt eulogizes McNamara. This one’s hard to excerpt: Unlike the American soldiers who fought in Indochina, or the millions of Indochinese who died there, McNamara did not suffer significant hardship as a result of his decisions. He lived a…
I keep meaning to do a post on Robert McNamara’s very long persecuted old age and what that example holds for the neoconservatives, who if Richard Perle keeps his lipids down in the south of France, and Elliott Abrams gets…
I did a post yesterday, in the moment, foolishly giving Obama a break, prospectively, if Israel is to bomb Iran. Two of my intellectual betters demurred. Jack Ross: I’m closer to Antony Loewenstein than to you on this one. If…
How has the internet liberated journalists? Tom Ricks works at the Washington Post. He also has perches at Foreign Policy and some thinktank. Here a genius post at Foreign Policy about the Post op-ed page titled, Stop the Insanity! In…
The best line in Nathan Guttman’s piece in the Forward about the Justice Department’s effort to prove that a pro-Israel spy ring was operating inside the Pentagon, AIPAC and the Israeli Embassy came from Steve Rosen, the former AIPAC lobbyist…