Yesterday I read Michael Tomasky’s review in New York Review of Books (no link yet) of Robert Kaiser’s book on the corruption of lobbyists. Tomasky is justly disturbed about the health-care lobby’s ability to destroy Obama’s work on health care…
Why do I depend on Steve Rosen for all my information about the Israel lobby and its discontents? Cause he’s wired, I guess. At Middle East Forum, he says General Anthony Zinni is the frontrunner. Realist. And good on The…
Jack Ross responds to the earlier post on Rabbis for Human Rights: I don’t follow them as closely as your other correspondent, though I’m proud to say that I belong to the congregation of one of their most vocal members,…
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…