Ira Glunts writes: President Obama’s popularity, though never high among Israelis, has tanked following the US administration’s recent confrontation with Prime Minister Netanyahu over settlement expansion. According to a recent poll sponsored by the Jerusalem Post only 6% of Israelis…
A few tentative, uninformed comments re the Tehran electoral crisis: –Some of the theorizing about a fraudulent election seems as persuasive to me as, say, the theorizing that Syria knocked off former Lebanese P.M. Rafik Hariri in 2005– and occupies…
Thank god after all the dreck written about Walt and Mearsheimer, here is the Hill’s Bridget Johnson, beginning a story about Obama’s Middle East policy in a refreshing manner, by writing about who is really going to affect it. Notice…
One of the best things John Updike ever said was at the beginning of a lecture on Melville when he said, All Melville scholars please leave the room. He was about to take his crack at an important literary question…
The lobby is splitting. J Street is taking the Obama Jews (most of ’em, I bet; but younger and poorer), and AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents are holding the Netanyahu Jews. Older, moneyed, more conservative. Malcolm Hoenlein of the…
Jeff Blankfort writes: “Being a State Department or White House press spokesperson is no easy job; and this guy at State, Ian Kelly, says he’s worried about getting fired or transfered if he says too much re Dennis Ross. A…
David Nather has a smart/dumb piece about the Israel lobby at CQ politics. Nather picked up Harry Reid’s letter to Obama distancing himself from Obama’s policy of pressuring Israel. Reid says it’s the Palestinians’ responsibility to move the peace process…
Tonight on Hardball, Chris Matthews said of Netanyahu, “Round one to Obama.” The shrewd Matthews was saying that Obama took Netanyahu to the cleaner’s when he came to D.C. last month. But also suggesting that Netanyahu regained momentum in the…
Kabobfest (from whom I’m stealing most of my material tonight) says that David Gregory revealed himself as a “shameless Zionist” on “Meet the Press Sunday,” cutting off Vice President Joe Biden in order to challenge the administration for putting all…