Say it again: Gaza has struck a blow to the Israel lobby. Here (thanks to Eva Smagacz) is a long column by Jerusalem Post editor David Horovitz that teems with anxiety about the delegitimization of Israel in the eyes of…
Bruce Wolman writes: Did you notice how the Washington Institute for Near East Policy reduces the entire discussion of Gaza atrocities to the debate on the Israeli side? “So far, there have been only a few cases of alleged serious…
An important debate took place on Wednesday: What to do if Iran gets nukes? at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Two neoconservatives, Elliott Abrams and Joshua Muravchik, were pitted against the newly-realist Martin Indyk…
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…