Jeff Blankfort writes: At Huffpo, Stephen Zunes provides an excellent breakdown of the restrictions placed on the Palestinians by Congress in the new budget but remains in stolid denial that it is the result of the pressure of the lobby….
A week or so back I wrote that in my 50s I am past caring whether someone calls me a self-hating Jew, and a friend asked me to explain this attitude. When you get to be in your 50s you…
Pushback on Gaza. From the Washington Institute for Near East Policy: So far, there have been only a few cases of alleged serious misconduct involving the “cold-blooded” killing of civilians, and these are in dispute. Ethan Bronner does the heavy…
Jeffrey Goldberg has a very interesting dialogue here with his friend Ari Roth of Theater J in Washington in which he scolds Roth for his plans to mount a production of “Seven Jewish Children,” by Caryl Churchill. The Goldberg-Roth dialogue…
Playwright David Zellnik went to the New York Theatre Workshop last night for the second of three nights of readings of Caryl Churchill’s short, Gaza-inspired play, Seven Jewish Children. His report: So last night was pretty thrilling. From what I…
Yesterday there were two posts on the recent report “A Last Chance For A Two-State Israel-Palestine Agreement: A Bipartisan Statement on U.S. Middle East Peacemaking”(pdf). Both Roger Cohen and Andrew Sullivan made reference to it, and it is reportedly on…
Every day now I dip into Kafka, because he was so intelligently engaged with the Jewish question in Europe at a time when Zionism enthralled Jews, because it seemed to be the answer. Kafka was both a Zionist and not…
My new theme is that there is a tremendous amount of rage against Israel that is at last boiling to the surface post-Gaza, especially amid the air of righteous impunity the Israelis have adopted toward the atrocity claims. Latest piece…
Marty Peretz is embracing Netanyahu, saying he wants peace without “illusions.” Oh, and George Mitchell is “silly.” So spake the lobby. How interesting that TNR contributor Michael Walzer, who to his great credit has called for heavy pressure on Israel…