Susie Kneedler writes: And David Ignatius [moderator of Peres/Erdogan debate at Davos] SUPPORTED the attack on Iraq by parroting Bush-Co, so he is not a fair arbiter: “Get Ready for the American Ninjas [what a barbarous headline, SK] Feb 25,…
[Photo from Jiser’s Flickr collection] Yesterday Adam Horowitz did a great post here about Rabbi Brant Rosen’s beautiful group, Rabbis Speak Out! condemning the Gaza massacres. Adam pointed out that Rabbi David Saperstein of the Reform Jews is not on…
I wonder how the pointlessness of the war (Times of London link to the finger-pointing beginning in Israel) fits into Michael Walzer’s just war theory? And what does its pointlessness do for advocates Tom Friedman and Jeffrey Goldberg, who trumpeted…
Here is a fabulous piece by the great Glenn Greenwald pointing out the insanity of the Israeli/neocon support for the Iraq war as a naked means of guaranteeing Israel’s security. In one horrific quote Greenwald has discovered, Shimon Peres likens…
Steve Walt is a little bit optimistic about Obama’s foreign-policy prospects. Funny money quote: Above all, the biggest mistake Obama could make would be to follow too closely in his predecessor’s footsteps, or to pay too much attention to the…
Whatever Barack Obama is or isn’t, a mystery we will get to unfold for many years, we know who George Bush is: a tragic figure. Look at him now. He’s crumpled, thin, gray, and angry. I remember him eight years…
Nope. It’s Madoff: A Jewish Reckoning. A materialist reflection on Jewish values. Marty Peretz glows that Yivo had not a dime with the conman.
The AP reports that Obama ate dinner Tuesday night, and surely nodded his head alot, at George Will’s house. Who was there? David Brooks, William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer. Two fullblown neocons, one merely neoconnish, all tragically wrong on Iraq, all…
Since the beginning of its assault, Israel has attempted to justify the destruction of Gaza by comparing the operation to the US decimation of Iraq. The opening aerial bombardment of Gaza brought comparisons to the US “shock & awe” campaign….