I guess it should maybe come as no surprise, but criticism of President Obama’s Middle East policy has come from an unlikely source – one of his special envoys tasked with carrying it out. Ha’aretz is reporting that in his…
One of the most impressive moments of the AIPAC conference was when they brought out 193 university student council presidents onto the stage. It seemed like a brilliant strategy to me; each of those presidents represented a relationship that AIPAC…
I walked around Cairo yesterday jetlagged and overwhelmed by cultural difference. The plane takes nearly twice as long to get here as it does to England. We’re hundreds of miles east of Istanbul, and it sure feels like the orient….
David Sanger had a piece in the Times yesterday that was more Iran-fear-mongering. Iran test-fired a sophisticated missile on Wednesday.
David Sanger had a piece in the Times yesterday that was more Iran-fear-mongering. Iran test-fired a sophisticated missile on Wednesday that was capable of striking Israel and parts of Western Europe, adding to concerns that Iran’s weapons-development program is fast…
Scott McConnell, noting the Jane Harman news, points out that this is a wrinkle in the last neocon push: I assume that powerful Congressmen and women have a pretty good sense of political realities, so I took it as a…
NIAC is reporting that Rep. Jane Harman has retracted and apologized for her comments advocating that Iran be divided up by ethnicity. Harman claims she her comments were “taken out of context.” Judge for yourself (begin around 1:25): Seems pretty…
I have a hobbyhorse I haven’t mounted: the failure of The New Yorker magazine, which helped shape liberal blue-state opposition to the Vietnam War, to say one word about Gaza. Yes, editor David Remnick said something about the onslaught in…
Important piece, picked up by Dan Luban, in which Keith Weissman– formerly of the AIPAC two, indicted under the Espionage statute for allegedly passing secrets to Israel, an indictment now dropped–states that Iran will likely get nukes regardless and it…