Further evidence that the Israel lobby is delaminating. Larry Johnson, an ex-CIA security pro and former counter-terrorism guy at State who looks on Hamas as a terror organization (sorry, there’s no accounting for taste), says that Israel’s strategy is “bulls–t”….
The Union for Reform Judaism, fresh from its support for the Iraq war, is now cheering the Gaza slaughter as a proportional response to rocket fire from the blockaded territory, and celebrating the Bush administration for its support. Rabbi Eric…
Adam Horowitz writes: At left is a Reuters photo of a Gaza man grieving over the killing of his son. From the Times: “Dr. Muawiya Hassanein, the head of emergency services at the Gaza Ministry of Health, said at least…
It’s no fun to be marginalized. Let me tell you. The same week that American Enterprise Institute began purging the neoconservatives, and a few weeks after the plug was pulled on the New York Sun, the Forward allows the neocons…
Last week at the National Press Club, Paul Krugman said what he’s said before, but even more pithily: To be taken seriously on foreign policy in Washington, you have to have been wrong about Iraq. Or words close to that….
Liberal internationalists are now doing their utmost to distance themselves from Bush, but Wilsonian liberal internationalism is what got us into Iraq; and Hillary Clinton is the “paladin” of these liberals. That is realist Mike Desch’s argument in the latest…
in this interesting piece on the rapidly-declining number of mainstream reporters in Washington– The Bloomberg News bureau has expanded in recent years, and a few Internet sources, like Politico, are still expanding, but the number of journalists added is a…
New book by Times reporter Pat Tyler says George Tenet raged against the necon Jews while bathing in Prince Bandar’s pool. Interesting that Tenet wrote a whole book about Iraq and left Jews out of it. Will this finally give…
If you’re a blogger you get to do stuff like that: put your favorite Cream album in a headline for whatever reason–a reference to the first Jewish Prime Minister of England. Yakov writes to me this morning: “Did you happen…