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…
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s new Washington blog is called “Capital J”. “Inside the Beltway with Ron Kampeas & Eric Fingerhut.” I wonder if they would have come up with that name if not for J Street. I bet not. That…
I veer here between celebrating the sea-change in the American political discourse and saying that the Israel lobby runs Washington. Today’s a good day. Here is my abundant evidence of the sea-change: –Obama’s Chas Freeman pick for National Intelligence Council;…
Steve Walt, who is giving lectures on the Israel lobby, here describes a McCarthyite smear campaign against longtime public servant Chas Freeman, the new head of the National Intelligence Council, and singles out: Jonathan Chait, Michael Goldfarb of Weekly Standard,…
An amazing youtube of an American officer berating a group of Iraqi policemen, apparently last month, calling them “women” for the fact that they won’t take on the Mahdi militia. All his rage must be translated into Arabic by a…
I just got my March issue of Commentary. It’s not online yet. It includes a long article by Yiddishist Ruth Wisse called “Now, About That ‘Proportionality'” which of course says that Israel was right to destroy Gaza. There is something…
The battle is joined. The other side is gearing up. Here is a fabulous post by MJ Rosenberg saying that the Weekly Standard and other usual suspects want to hold McCarthy-like hearings about Chas Freeman. Meantime, something I somewhat-apprehended last…
Here’s why I believe in the Israel lobby theory of American Middle East policy. Here is Anne Bayefsky in Forbes the other day urging the Obama administration not to “sacrifice” Israel to the U.N.’s Durban conference. (Advice taken.) Bayefsky is…