From Israeli reservist and mouthpiece Michael Oren’s article in the New Republic this week: Irrespective of Israel’s goals, my unit’s job will be to afford the IDF the requisite time to achieve them by fostering a sympathetic press and, through…
Dan Drezner is the worst of the fresh-faces-for-a-fresh zeitgeist Foreign Policy bloggers. I believe he supported the Iraq war, and is an apologist for the Bush Administration. But he’s on the wagon when it comes to the good demon alcohol…
Andrew Sullivan has a great post on Arabs as human beings, the implicit target of which is actually Jewish ethnocentrism/neoconservatism. He is now justly angry at the McCain campaign for this ideological/religious/ethnic cargo. Again I ask: Where was the discussion…
Jack Ross writes: I must heartily second your appeal to Dan Radosh to write the article you describe! Some time back I became Facebook friends with Dan and wrote in the box for how we knew each other “I met…
Here’s yet another attack on J Street, somewhat crudely written, from communist-cum-neoconservative war horse Ron Radosh of Pajamas Media. He denies that there was a blockade of Gaza and says that Jews here must figure out what to do by…
Further evidence that the Israel lobby is on the defensive. AIPAC’s memo to me tonight on the ground invasion includes these points: –“There is no ‘occupation,’ only a radical Islamist enclave run by a genocidal terrorist group that acts to…
I think our side needs to be logical and factual and unrelenting. Note the weird defensive hysteria in the way that neocon Barry Rubin says the world has turned against Israel over this, and compares Hamas to Nazis… Even the…
Holdout neocon Barry Rubin, at a Harvard website: this is not an issue of Gaza or of Israel alone. The great issue of our era, of our remaining lifetimes, is the battle between radical Islamismâwhether using the tactic of terrorism…
I always blast Brit Tzedek on this site. Today Brit Tzedek sent me a transcript of a telephone press conference with a Washington rabbi/expert visiting Jerusalem, and I admit that just a day or two after my New Year’s resolution…