Scott McConnell reports from Washington: It’s belatedly dawning on me that next week’s Obama-Netanyahu meeting will be the kick-off for a Super Bowl of Super Bowls of diplomatic maneuvering, as two nominal allies seek to mobilize elements in the other’s…
Scott McConnell reports from Washington: It’s belatedly dawning on me that next week’s Obama-Netanyahu meeting will be the kick-off for a Super Bowl of Super Bowls of diplomatic maneuvering, as two nominal allies seek to mobilize elements in the other’s…
A lot of people have sent me the Sir Max Hastings piece from the Guardian, a veteran journalist’s lecture about falling out of love with an Israel that loves violence. (I posted about it the other day; I see that…
Uri Avnery, at his best, says that Shimon Peres trivialized the Holocaust by saying Iran is the equivalent of Nazi Germany and that the Netanyahu government doesn’t believe that Iran is an existential threat. President Barack Obama is now saying…
Why is all the good mainstream journalism about Israel appearing in England and Israel? Here is Max Hastings, former editor of the Telegraph, giving an inspired lecture on how Israel, which he frequently visited and long admired, has so celebrated…
Haaretz says that Obama doesn’t clear stuff with Israel before going public, and Israel is upset. Grow up, son. Newsweek says the same. Train wreck ahead. Obama isn’t taking Netanyahu’s cue on Iran or on the Palestinian state. Oh my,…
Haaretz says that Obama doesn’t clear stuff with Israel before going public, and Israel is upset. Grow up, son. Newsweek says the same. Train wreck ahead. Obama isn’t taking Netanyahu’s cue on Iran or on the Palestinian state. Oh my,…
More signs of change in the American Jewish community. A leader of the peace bloc in the pro-Israel community comes down on one of its former heroes, Shimon Peres, after Peres reportedly told Joe Biden that he wasn’t going to…
More signs of change in the American Jewish community. A leader of the peace bloc in the pro-Israel community comes down on one of its former heroes, Shimon Peres, after Peres reportedly told Joe Biden that he wasn’t going to…