Is this fair? Some in Congress want to hold up Gaza aid till Israeli soldier-prisoner Gilad Shalit is released. Writes a friend: These members of Congress are openly backing collective punishment against a devastated community living under occupation and siege….
I only have one foot on the ground (that’s the definition of this blog, Rabbi Hillel meets the luftmensch and goes for a ride) but I can’t think of a more hopeful piece to read tonight than rbguy’s wonderful reporting…
Jim Lobe has a devastatingly-smart analysis of the new State Department, including the bad news that Dennis Ross seems to have legs, on the 7th floor, guiding Iran policy, and that Hillary is reading neocon thinktank papers. Ideas, ideas, ideas–the…
A few months back, my friend Mark and I exposed the pseudonymous conservative columnist Spengler as the nom-de-plume of a LaRouchie-cum-neocon musician/trader named David P. Goldman. We decided to unmask him because author investigations are fun, and also because Spengler…
Helena Cobban has published an amazing report on an interview she did with smiling senior Likud security-affairs specialist Efraim Inbar, who surely has Netanyahu’s ear. Somewhat shocking. A lot of racism dignified as the “Zionist ethos.” Incredible arrogance, which I…
Today Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director of J Street, has an article in the Huffington Post that could have been ripped from the pages of Mondoweiss. In his post “Avigdor Lieberman’s Makeover Won’t Work” Ben-Ami addresses the wedge that Avigdor Lieberman…
Everyone who comes to this site should be aware that right now the point of the lance is Times columnist Roger Cohen, who, “shamed” by Gaza, has done the best work on Israel/Palestine at the Times (I know, not a…
When we talk about the Israel lobby, we have to talk about the emotional energy that binds it. We must talk about the fact that Americans for Peace Now, a good organization with fair ideas about Israel/Palestine, has remained on…
Dennis Ross is a diplomat pretty high in the State Department under Hillary Clinton. He was lately appointed a special adviser on the Persian Gulf/Iran. Till lately, Ross was chairman of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, an Israeli thinktank….