This was inevitable. The Harvard Crimson reports on what the so-far suppressed Iranian revolt means to nuke negotiations. And of course the arrow points one way for an ideologue: History Professor Roy P. Mottahedeh, who specializes in Middle Eastern intellectual…
Got to hand it to Politico’s Josh Gerstein. He has a short piece here on Nixon-era policy struggle, unearthed in National Archives data dump, on how much pressure to put on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation pact back…
In a piece in the forthcoming New York Review of Books, David Bromwich creatively opposes the post-colonial credo of Obama in his Cairo speech to a book by Leslie Gelb of the Council of Foreign Relations, which mingles the best-and-the-brightest…
Shocker. Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports that after former AIPAC lobbyists Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman were indicted four years back under the Espionage Act (charges lately dropped), the Pentagon official who had informed on Rosen/Weissman, Larry Franklin, was approached by…
Three moods of an unidentified woman who attended Sunday’s Tel Aviv beach celebration in Central Park at the behest of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism–and who decided to confront the demonstrators. Photos by Michael Bitar. In the third photograph below,…
After yesterday’s beach party in Central Park hosted by the Israel Ministry of Tourism, who got the headline on Fox News? Fox 5 NY story was “almost entirely about the skimpily-attired protesters” (Jews sans Frontieres reports). And at Stanley Rogouski’s…
Obama’s game is to defeat the Israel lobby from within. He could not defeat the lobby from outside it; because Jews are simply too important in the American power structure. That is why he could not run against the lobby;…
Rob Browne at Dailykos has an excellent piece on the evolution of the Israeli demand for “recognition-plus”– that Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state, even before negotiations over land, refugees etc begin. This “new and nonsensical” demand (which preemptively…
Items: –Google AdSense ads disappear from this site without adequate explanation. –In a “disturbing trend,” videos critical of Israel disappear from YouTube without adequate explanation. YouTube is owned by Google. –Go back in time… Walt and Mearsheimer’s talk at the…