Today Americans for Peace Now released an interview with former Mossad exec Yossi Alpher where Alpher showed great respect for the Iranian revolution, comparing it to the Russian revolution, and saying that neoconservatives failed to understand its permanency and support….
Jay Rosen has picked up an interesting diagram to show how certain subjects (the Iraq war, Israel policy) are beyond debate in US politics. There are 3 spheres of the discourse: the inner sphere of consensus (Ken Pollack), surrounded by…
Andrew Sullivan is somewhat recanting his accusation of several days ago against the neocons as being Israel-centric by explaining all the good things that neocons do beside turn Arab societies into charnel houses. I sense a lot of emails. Sullivan’s…
Just now on “Meet the Press,” Tom Ricks said that what American commanders had in essence done with the surge was to buy up the Sunni insurgency, thereby achieving a military solution in Iraq (held together with baling wire). I…
Last night on NBC news, Al Roker debuted a show he is doing about black kids growing up without fathers. The big theme of the show that will air on MSNBC tomorrow night is bluntly racial: “this unsettling crisis.” It…
As many voices on this site mourn the two-state solution, I picked up Palestinian-American Ali Abunimah’s book, One Country (2006). It tells a long-ago story that seems quaint today: Drawing parallels between Israel-Palestine and apartheid South Africa makes some people…
One thing I have always enjoyed about winter-camping is that I get to hang out with the Other, in my case privileged gentiles. When I was a kid, people from that tribe ran American institutions and my family was highly…
Andrew Sullivan might have saved himself three years’ mental labor by reading Walt and Mearsheimer in March 2006. He writes: I took neoconservatism seriously for a long time, because it offered an interesting critique of what’s wrong with the Middle…
One of the goals of the Holocaust Memorial is to “enhance the nation’s moral discourse.” Well Elliott Abrams got a last minute 5-year appointment from George Bush to the council of the Memorial. Abrams pushed the Iraq war as well…