This is from the Times of London. Obama is endorsing the Geneva initiative of 2002, privately. So Dan Kurtzer may be the real wheel in the swiss watch we call Obama’s brain. Obama is getting Peres on board. And presumably…
A friend gave me the documentary, Man From Plains, about Jimmy Carter’s 2006 book tour for Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. It came out a year ago. My wife and I watched it the other night. I would urge the good…
Steve Walt has good faith about Obama’s foreign policy. (Having lately seen evidence of his clairvoyance,) I asked him where he thinks we’re headed, and he offered these comments by email: I’m trying to keep an open mind on where…
The other night in Brooklyn, on the Anti-Occupation tour that will soon come to your little town, there was a great dialogue in the Methodist church in Park Slope over the Jewish idea of chosenness. I reported some of this…
I’ve gotten many friends thru this blog. One of them is a quiet person, as an emailer anyway, named Anne Silver. She lives in the Bay Area and always apologizes for taking my time. She is obviously kind. Her name…
Richard Cohen has a column in the Washington Post recommending several names for Obama’s cabinet; and typically–because I am a Jewish non-Zionist and Cohen is pro-Zionist (he once said that reading Walt and Mearsheimer had him singing “Hatikvah”)–I find myself…
Juan Cole says, Give Emanuel a chance, don’t judge him by his father. Fair enough. He adds sensibly: Obama and Emanuel have a choice. They can work toward Israel’s survival by making one last push for a two-state solution now….
Last night I posted a disturbing video of soldiers teasing a Palestinian in ways I couldn’t understand. Here is the Haaretz story behind it: Channel 10 on Thursday released footage taken by Israel Defense Forces soldiers of themselves humiliating a…
This blog comes out of alienation from my own tribe. I was staggered in midlife to find that the people I’d grown up believing were the best/enlightened were as power-hungry and materialistic as anyone else in the U.S. and indifferent…