A couple days ago a friend of mine said “The cat is out of the bag” re Israel/Palestine. (Thus the clever headline). He referred specifically to the fact that Rahm Emanuel’s dual loyalty issue was getting attention around the world….
Here’s the photo I referred to earlier. Gosh. AP. By Pablo Martinez Monsivais. I’m not cynical about Obama. Sometimes this stuff is real, the change stuff. Wonder how many people who voted for the war in Iraq would do this…
My friend John O’Keeffe says a foto on the front page of the Irish Times and USA Today this morning showed Obama embracing an American veteran with artificial legs. I cannot find it, but O’Keeffe wonders whether this gesture does…
Here is a great piece on the Iraqi Jews, by Adam Shatz in LRB. There are only a dozen Jews left in Baghdad today, there were 125,000 in 1948, including famous families like the Sassoons. The plight of the Iraqi…
Everyone who reads this blog knows what a blurb is, right? It’s an endorsement on the back jacket of a book. J.J. Goldberg, editorial director of the Forward, and a kind and thoughtful guy, blurbs Avraham Burg’s important new book,…
The other day I complained that Obama’s election-night speech didn’t show any of the personal authenticity of his first book, Dreams From My Father, and a friend sent me this link to Kansas City writer Jack Cashill’s theory, now wild…
I’m sure he’s a nice guy, but as I have said before, California lefty Stephen Zunes has made idiotic statements about the Israel lobby and the Iraq war. Here is the smoking gun of idiocy. In lamenting the Rahm Emanuel…
Peter Voskamp, editor of the Block Island Times, took me to meet Walt and Mearsheimer in R.I. back when we were lads, 2 years ago. What larks! Here’s Voskamp riffing on the Emanuel appointment and his faith in Obama: I…
a friend tells me that this New Yorker profile of Tom Friedman gives him a pass on his Iraq War error by not quoting from any of his drum-banging columns back then. I’d have hoped that the author would have…