Lately I’ve become a big fan of a journalist who works on Daily Kos called “Rbguy.” He writes a diary tracking what Congress is doing on the Middle East. Rbguy interests me because when I’m at dinner parties with other…
Andrew Sullivan has posted again in favor of Chas Freeman, with a great headline, “Another Anti-Semite for Freeman,” linking a Joe Klein column in favor of Freeman. This is big. Tonight the tom-toms in the jungle are muted. Marty Peretz,…
Jeffrey Blankfort and Jack Ross have responded to Michael Walzer’s piece in Dissent calling for the defeat of the colonization movement in the West Bank in order to save the two-state solution. Blankfort: I have a different take on Walzer….
A good rock has been turned over in the Chas Freeman controversy. On Foreign Policy’s website, one of Freeman’s defenders, Stephen Walt, cracked about one of Freeman’s pursuers, Jeffrey Goldberg, that his idea of public service was moving to Israel…
National Review editor Rich Lowry joins Freeman-bashing: It’s not pro-democracy protesters but Israel that is the most intense object of Freeman’s ire. He blames the Jewish state for the deadly hatred directed at it, and at us. He thinks we…
When we talk about the Israel lobby, we have to talk about the emotional energy that binds it. We must talk about the fact that Americans for Peace Now, a good organization with fair ideas about Israel/Palestine, has remained on…
Steve Walt, who is giving lectures on the Israel lobby, here describes a McCarthyite smear campaign against longtime public servant Chas Freeman, the new head of the National Intelligence Council, and singles out: Jonathan Chait, Michael Goldfarb of Weekly Standard,…
From the obit of Sir Michael Quinlan, 78, a national-security expert, in the Telegraph: Although his discretion never deserted him, Quinlan was a man of strong moral views, and in retirement he was much in demand both as a writer…
An amazing youtube of an American officer berating a group of Iraqi policemen, apparently last month, calling them “women” for the fact that they won’t take on the Mahdi militia. All his rage must be translated into Arabic by a…