The National has a highly favorable review of a Palestinian road movie that includes a Bonnie and Clyde romance of illicit return by refugees to a village in Israel– Emad and Soraya decide to visit the ruins of Dawayima, Emad’s…
The AP says that Iraq and China have inked a $3 billion oil deal that had been negotiated five years ago then set aside right after the American invasion. If my wife is right, and this is all Cheney cares…
Leila Abu-Saba knows Max Rodenbeck and describes him as an Arabist. Rodenbeck is the writer for the Economist whom the Times assigned on Sunday to machicolate Ken Pollack (the sage to whom the Times had formerly turned to, in 2002-2003,…
The New Jersey Jewish Standard has a review by Abraham Foxman of former Indiana congressman John Hostettler’s book Nothing for the Nation, which blames Israel firsters for pushing the Iraq war. Foxman ends his piece: Hostettler has settled upon the…
More to say on the responses to my post, The Anti-Semites Are on My Side on These Issues, and how much should I care? First, Richard Witty never asked me to ban any commenters. What he did was suggest that…
An important signpost: The Associated Press has referred to the neocon cell, the Project for the New American Century, and Bill Kristol et al’s dreams of reforming the Middle East in a piece on McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann….
A continuing series on How to Think About Darfur, by James North I first looked into the definition of genocide in the early 1980s, when I was writing Freedom Rising, my book about southern Africa. One chapter described the apartheid…
Lee Whitnum is a 48-year-old computer science teacher in Stamford, CT, who last night lost the Democratic primary in Connecticut’s 4th District to establishment candidate Jim Himes, who now will take on Republican congressman Chris Shays. The race was interesting…
An investigation has revealed that David Frum, author of An End to Evil but not of the Axis of Evil, has an interior decorator. “Julie.” Julie Chalabi? Julie Jabotinsky? Julie Netanyahu? Watch this space.