Bruce Wolman writes: When Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington last month, Israeli media reported he was quite shocked at the reception he received in his closed-door meetings with Congress. It appeared the Obama administration had lined up fellow Democrats to…
When I was in Gaza, an Arab-American in one of our delegations told me that the Jewish identity piece of the puzzle was a “sideshow.” I agreed with him at the time. The scale of the suffering and destruction, perpetrated…
Last Saturday, John Mearsheimer spoke to the Islamic Association of Greater Detroit. Mearsheimer tends to be pessimistic, but at the end of his speech he urged Muslims to work with enlightened Jews to put pressure on Israel and bring abut…
As I reported last month, speakers at AIPAC described Ahmadinejad as the “gift that keeps on giving.” Now AIPAC is pushing a bill in the House for Iran sanctions that the Obama administration doesn’t want, as it seeks to turn…
Grant Smith of IRMEP reports: Steven J. Rosen’s defamation suit against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) had its first appearance at 9:30 AM on June 5 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Rosen and fellow…
It’s funny that Obama had to travel all the way to Cairo for MSNBC to start talking about what’s going on in Washington, DC. Keith Olbermann had Lawrence Wilkerson, State Department chief of staff under Colin Powell, on his show…
Myself I was impressed by Obama’s offering himself to the Muslim world as a leader, the supple use of the Koran and of Islamic teaching, the embrace of his own Muslim background, and the willingness to dive into women’s freedom….
I’m in Cairo, about to walk across town to see my president address the Muslim world. I know there’s a lot of cynicism and hopelessness about this speech. Not here. I think my president knows exactly what’s going on. Mr….
What would you do if you got this email? you’ve really got to read what Jeffrey Goldberg just said to a Jewish television audience. Something is breaking, cracking, tearing. I have never experienced anything like this moment! Pretty exciting, huh?…