In case you haven’t noticed, one of my political projects here is to push the shiddach, which is Yiddish for an arranged marriage, of American realists and leftists over Palestine because it’s so potentially transformative. I began this process personally…
For The Financial Times yesterday, the likelihood that Avigdor Lieberman will become Foreign Minister was the top news story of the day. FT ran the story in the top-right hand column of the paper, ahead of the AIG story. For…
Last month I published a sharp criticism of Peace Now by Ira Glunts, arguing that they shouldn’t have embraced Rep. Gary Ackerman over his recent statement about the West Bank colonies because he’s been a kneejerk defender of Israel at…
As any regular visitor to this site knows, I have conflicted feelings about my relationship to the Jewish community. Though I am always proudly Jewish, I announce that I am assimilating, anti-Zionist, non-Zionist, realist, leftist. I have a love-hate thing…
Last week Sallai Meridor quit as Israeli ambassador to the US with some saying he saw the two countries on a “collision course” with President Obama and PM Netanyahu. Now Eli Lake reports that Netanyahu’s likely choice as national security…
Yesterday David Bromwich published a piece on Huffpo memorializing Rachel Corrie in the best way, by using her story to critique the media and the American government and ultimately to the fields of political philosophy and Jewish and American identity….
The other day on “All Things Considered,” NPR anchor Robert Siegel quoted Marty Peretz to Chas Freeman. Siegel said that Peretz said it would be crazy for Marty Peretz himself to be put in an intelligence position–he’s too in the…
Charles Lane in the Washington Post and David Rothkopf on Foreign Policy make the same angry point: the Freeman affair has devolved into a regrettable argument about whether Israel’s supporters in this country have dual loyalties. Lane wants President Obama…