The latest New York Review of Books contains an ad for a book from Macmillan that says, “The politics of Israeli governments in recent years and a drift to neo-conservatism among segments of Diaspora Jewry have substantially polarized the Jewish…
“There is a need-to-know culture, and it’s like extraneous organisms are rejected,” Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat who served eight years on the House of Representatives intelligence panel, said of the intelligence agencies. –From a story last fall on…
The headline of this story in today’s Virginian-Pilot is “Big money arrives in Virginia politics” and mentions two Hollywood guys: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is employing his professional skills to bankroll his campaign. He has imported more than $525,000…
A friend offered this bagatelle: Thought experiment on Jane Harman: if her name were Chang Ha Lee, and the country for which she allegedly ran interference as a de facto agent were China, would the reaction be: (a) harsher, (b)…
A friend offered this bagatelle: Thought experiment on Jane Harman: if her name were Chang Ha Lee, and the country for which she allegedly ran interference as a de facto agent were China, would the reaction be: (a) harsher, (b)…
Daniel Schorr is a commentator on NPR’s Saturday morning radio show. He has esteem in the liberal community. Per his autobiography, his mother was devoted to the Zionist cause, and that familial bias shows through in his work. This morning,…
This will be a short post because it is now such a familiar trope in our political life. I’d bore myself if I went through the details, which of course are always vague, to try and discover why Senator Kirsten…
Note the sudden withdrawal of the offer to General Anthony Zinni to be ambassador to Iraq. CNN’s political ticker says the withdrawal is a mystery. Well, Zinni has called for a more evenhanded American policy in Israel/Palestine, and suggested that…
Note the sudden withdrawal of the offer to General Anthony Zinni to be ambassador to Iraq. CNN’s political ticker says the withdrawal is a mystery. Well, Zinni has called for a more evenhanded American policy in Israel/Palestine, and suggested that…