Ralph Seliger and Steve F. respond to me re the right of return. Seliger first: It’s simple history that Israel overran its borders in 1948, because the tides of war permitted it to. The Palestinian and external Arab forces made…
A friend writes, “I was a bit surprised at how pro-Obama last night’s post-debate commentary was. Were they being objective, or has the media already decided that Obama is going to win and they want to be on his good…
Nir Rosen has an amazing report in The National from a Sunni town in Lebanon where gunmen block the Beirut-Damascus road and send suicide bombers to blow up Shiites in Iraq: After the war in Iraq – which empowered Shiite…
When I worked at Esquire we had a feature called Women We Love. Well, these are Israeli high school girls who are refusing to serve the occupation: Omer Goldman, Tamar Katz, Mia Tamarin. Notice in the picture above the photo…
One of the amazing things about the invasion of Iraq is that not only was it charted by neoconservatives, many of them Zionists who sought to secure Israel, but that unconsciously or not, these folks inhaled the Israeli view of…
I like the headlines in the National out of Abu Dhabi. Today one headline is “Double Down,” a double entendre of Lehman and Merrill going down, 7 years after the Twin Towers went down. You can do that kind of…
The latest National Interest has a fine exchange between Stephen Walt and Joshua Muravchik on realists versus neocons. Muravchik’s claims for neoconservatism lie in the past. He says that America’s post-WW2 foreign policy was neocon–building interventionist alliances around the globe…
Idrees Ahmad points out to me that there’s an American Enterprise Institute connection in Bob Woodward’s new book: Last night I finished Woodward’s new book, The War Within. Unlike some of his past works this one has little that is…
All I ever needed to know about torture: A friend of mine dealt marijuana in a white working-class suburb in Westchester County. A Jamaican gang moved in on their territory. One day a Jamaican came to my friend’s boss’s door…