More important to be able to do “parlor meetings” with major donors
Here is a nice piece in Haaretz showing how the Shalem Center, a thinktank whose pigeons are now reroosting in the Netanyahu administration, including Michael Oren and Ron Dermer, was heavily funded by neoconservatives so as to keep bad ideas…
One lesson of Jeffrey Goldberg’s continued platform in the New York Times to preach to Americans about Amalek and the Holocaust on the eve of Netanyahu’s visit is that there is a war inside the Times between progressives/realists and neoconservatives/liberal…
As I mentioned the other day, David Rose in Vanity Fair has a good piece saying that neocons in high U.S. government positions prevented American overtures to the Sunni insurgents in 2004, nearly three years before such connections helped end…
Wait till progressive Democrats feast on him in the 2010 primary. Who wants this guy? The newly-minted Democratic Senator is speaking at a conference on “radical Islam” organized by the Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes’s group, which has continually stereotyped…
Leon Hadar in Foreign Affairs: The George W. Bush administration saw its foray into Iraq as a substitute for a diplomatic strategy to bring about Israeli-Palestinian peace. But the notion that the road to Jerusalem led through Baghdad — that…
Leon Hadar in Foreign Affairs: The George W. Bush administration saw its foray into Iraq as a substitute for a diplomatic strategy to bring about Israeli-Palestinian peace. But the notion that the road to Jerusalem led through Baghdad — that…
The Washington Post is reporting that a recent letter to Obama on the peace process (saying we’re on Israel’s side and Palestinians have to build institutions to allow a “viable” state), signed by congressional leaders Steny Hoyer and Eric Cantor,…