Today on NPR’s morning show, Daniel Schorr had more to say about the miracle on the Hudson than he did about Gaza, and not much about Gaza at all. So Schorr is mute before the horror while his contemporary Bill…
Now that Israel’s former close friend Turkey’s P.M. has condemned the Gaza slaughter–“perpetrating inhuman actions which would bring [Israel] to self-destruction”–Daniel Pipes is shocked to discover that he is an Islamist. Just watch, soon Pipes will finally discover the Armenian…
An amazing piece by Robert Novak in the Washington Post 2 years ago nearly, saying that Hamas would not controvert the Palestinian Authority’s acceptance of the state of Israel, but that the Bush Administration turns a deaf ear, including Novak’s…
Here neocon Ed Lasky, who deems Iraq a smashing success from his armchair, laments a report that Samantha Power escorted Obama to a recent realist-dominated dinner, a sign of her evident continuing influence, hosannah. Supporters of the American- Israel alliance…
The core condition of Zionism is the understanding that Jews are unsafe in western societies. Theodor Herzl invented Zionism two centuries ago for this good reason, and that belief underlies Prisoners, by Jeffrey Goldberg, about his decision to move from…
The AP reports that Obama ate dinner Tuesday night, and surely nodded his head alot, at George Will’s house. Who was there? David Brooks, William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer. Two fullblown neocons, one merely neoconnish, all tragically wrong on Iraq, all…
David Frum’s guide on how to Watch the Gaza War. All the cool Israeli propaganda videos showing Arab contempt for civilians.
Robert Naiman on Huffpo takes my line, that Dennis Ross was basically Israel’s lawyer for 10 years in the White House thru Republican and Democratic presidencies and the “messy and difficult” business of peace-processing while the colonies grew on “Palestinian…
David Frum and I agree at last: The Democrats–the people, not the politicians– are against the Gaza slaughter. They weren’t crazy about Iraq either. Apres vous le deluge.