Note the sudden withdrawal of the offer to General Anthony Zinni to be ambassador to Iraq. CNN’s political ticker says the withdrawal is a mystery. Well, Zinni has called for a more evenhanded American policy in Israel/Palestine, and suggested that…
Note the sudden withdrawal of the offer to General Anthony Zinni to be ambassador to Iraq. CNN’s political ticker says the withdrawal is a mystery. Well, Zinni has called for a more evenhanded American policy in Israel/Palestine, and suggested that…
Young Daniel Luban is a fine writer. Here he is on Iran, on Jim Lobe’s blog: I do not personally know whether [Roger] Cohen considers Israel and the U.S. to be an “existential threat” to Iran, but I would certainly…
In Nov. 2006, Time Magazine referred to Harman’s blowing off a US intel briefing to go hear a Saban Center briefing instead: “When the Saban Center talks, I listen,” Harman said at a Saban Center briefing in February on U.S….
In Nov. 2006, Time Magazine referred to Harman’s blowing off a US intel briefing to go hear a Saban Center briefing instead: “When the Saban Center talks, I listen,” Harman said at a Saban Center briefing in February on U.S….
The other day my eyes were opened when I read that David Brooks, the influential New York Times columnist who fiercely supported the Iraq war, has been to Israel 12 times because, he says, he was raised with “gooey-eyed” feelings…
JTA says that the CQ story on the taping of Congresswoman Jane Harman’s phone call with an “Israeli agent” back in ’06, in which she allegedly offered to do her part to end the Justice Department’s espionage case against former…
Typically, because I saw so much wisdom in it, I pushed Bruce Wolman to publish the short note he sent me yesterday, It’s gotten a lot of comment, as you can see. Wolman is a more considered writer than I…
I’m harping on David Brooks’s column about his twelfth trip to Israel because Brooks is such an important voice. A wonderful writer, a wonderful presence on television. Very sharp and reasonable about Obama. But completely opaque about his religious investment,…