The inimitable Morton Klein, in a piece published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency: “Mitchell demands that Israel not allow even “natural growth” within the Jewish communities in the West Bank. This was not part of any agreement ever signed by…
A fine column by Eric Alterman in the Nation, echoing David Grossman’s outrage over Gaza (see bottom of excerpt) and saying that the New York Times refused to run intact Bill Moyers’s letter defending himself on Gaza after he was…
The only problem with people who make aliyah is that they don’t just stay there. They come back here to fill our airwaves. Here is Caroline Glick, a columnist at the Jerusalem Post who says she is also “the senior…
This morning C-Span rebroadcast a panel on religion organized by the neoconservative Hudson Institute a month ago. Paul Marshall, a Hudson fellow, explained that Ahmed Chalabi had regained status in Iraq– notwithstanding his collaborationist past with Perle and Feith– not…
Notwithstanding his record on the neverending “peace process” (12 years, during which colonization of the West Bank marched on), Dennis Ross is said to be on the inside track to become envoy on the Iran portfolio under Obama. Well, two…
Here’s a report that Dennis Ross’s candidacy to be Iranian envoy could be torpedoed by his heading the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute and not registering as an agent of a foreign government. The source is IRMEP, the investigative org…
I saw an old friend last night. We had drinks in Grand Central. He’s Jewish too, and he and I completely disagree about Israel but we’ve learned to tiptoe around all that. He’s a very fair minded, intelligent man. But…
Jonathan Chait writes in the New Republic: Israel’s supporters do have a distressing tendency to define their position in maximalist terms. Witness the absurd controversy that surrounded Barack Obama’s banal observation last year that “nobody has suffered more than the…
Why Dennis Ross, of course. John Tirman’s bon mot on Alternet. Never forget, there was method in Ross’s madness. He was fathered by AIPAC. And lo, the settlements piled up.