There is a piece in yesterday’s Times that perfectly demonstrates why I believe that it is Essential that the Jewish family divide at last, openly, over Israel. Here it is, by Edward Rothstein. It is all about an exhibit at…
Note to journalists. You will not see a better headline than the headline on Steve Walt’s latest post at Foreign Policy: “Richard Perle is a liar”. Is there a more electrifying phrase in the English language? Walt delivers: The bottom…
Glenn Greenwald’s enthusiastic demolition of Jeffrey Goldberg for hurling antisemitism charges at anyone he disagrees with is surely one of the best blogposts I’ve ever read, and a reason that the blogosphere is replacing the MSM. Writing/discourse doesn’t get better…
Waching C-Span just now, I caught some of Richard Perle’s denial of neoconservatism’s influence in an event at the Nixon Center yesterday and had a few impressions. Perle said that the reason for the Iraq war was the Bush administration’s…
Dana Milbank reports that Richard Perle is denying that he is a neocon and that neocons had any influence. Perle states, to guffaws and rage, that the power of neoconservatism is a conspiracy theory believed by 50 million people. (Q:…
In his interview with the Jerusalem Post, former Bush aide Elliott Abrams says that former Israeli P.M. Ariel Sharon decided to withdraw from Gaza in 2005 for political/tactical reasons: to take people’s attention away from the Geneva Accord, which would…
On Lincoln’s birthday I am going to talk till I am blue in the face about politics, his political genius in assembling a diverse coalition that renewed the American belief that All men are created equal. The vital personal element…
Ray Close, a former CIA analyst, wrote the following letter to a foreign-policy list maintained by a Princeton scholar yesterday. Close gave me permission to publish [emphases mine]: For a large number of sophisticated Israelis, particularly those who feel the…
The Times did this piece last week on the mysterious recision of Gen. Anthony Zinni’s presumptive appointment to be Ambassador to Iraq. No substantive theory is offered by the Times of why Zinni, a great man, was denied this opportunity….