Jack Ross, first on Obama’s game, then on the Nakba: It’s important to cut through the smoke and mirrors of biblical references – which is not to say that Netanyahu’s “Amalek” mindset isn’t real and threatening. But the sense of…
Jack Ross, first on Obama’s game, then on the Nakba: It’s important to cut through the smoke and mirrors of biblical references – which is not to say that Netanyahu’s “Amalek” mindset isn’t real and threatening. But the sense of…
Were you disturbed by the news that Donald Rumsfeld used biblical quotations in headlines of war reports to President Bush so as to command the commander-in-chief’s shallow attention? It’s so easy to bash Bush. Zionists do this stuff too. The…
Were you disturbed by the news that Donald Rumsfeld used biblical quotations in headlines of war reports to President Bush so as to command the commander-in-chief’s shallow attention? It’s so easy to bash Bush. Zionists do this stuff too. The…
We’re only hours from the Obama-Netanyahu meeting and the advice is coming fast and furious. The New York Times is all over the place today with commentary from Ali Abunimah, Chas Freeman, Daniel Levy and Jeffrey Goldberg. The discourse is…
Daniel Pipes tempers his usual fevers– “How deep runs Obama’s antipathy toward the Jewish state?” he asks, in a column that paints the Democratic left as “anti-Zionist” (I wish)– with an awakening or two: Democrats cooled[toward Israel] in the post-Cold…
Daniel Pipes tempers his usual fevers– “How deep runs Obama’s antipathy toward the Jewish state?” he asks, in a column that paints the Democratic left as “anti-Zionist” (I wish)– with an awakening or two: Democrats cooled[toward Israel] in the post-Cold…
One lesson of Jeffrey Goldberg’s continued platform in the New York Times to preach to Americans about Amalek and the Holocaust on the eve of Netanyahu’s visit is that there is a war inside the Times between progressives/realists and neoconservatives/liberal…
A smart friend points out that Roger Cohen described Jeffrey Goldberg as Netanyahu’s stenographer (days after I, less memorably, called him Netanyahu’s amanuensis; shows you shouldn’t use pretentious words), and then continues with this analysis of Goldberg on the Times…