I gather that the New York Times has run two Op-Eds about Gaza: by Benny Morris and David Grossman. Both Israelis. Why not Americans? Why not the Jews who are leaving the Israel church over this? Why not Andy Whitmore…
I was in Israel during the Lebanon war and met a guy a lot like me at a bus stop. A smart outsider type, too skinny, he had a beard, intelligent eyes, and wore purple crocs on his feet, under…
Nattering neocons. Commentary is saying that J Street is an anti-Israel organization! Well I love Jeremy Ben-Ami for his courage (even though J Street is backsliding somewhat, inevitably) and Jeremy, we’ve got your back! Who are we? Progressives, realists, the…
Glenn Greenwald has a brilliant piece of analysis of the Rasmussen poll of American attitudes re Gaza. Greenwald points out that while Americans are generally split on sympathy for Israel or Palestine, Democratic voters are lopsidedly critical of Israel over…
A lot of new people are coming to this blog– and to leftwing and Arabist sites–because of Gaza. These new readers are outraged by the slaughter and don’t trust the conventional guides. This influx represents a great opportunity for my…
On New Year’s I kept wondering if I’d made a mistake posting about Meet the Press, the fact that four of six participants are Jewish this Sunday, in a discussion of foreign policy. Was I imposing a quota on foreign-policy…
Here’s Adam Horowitz on Huffpo, leaping off from the fact that a Connecticut rabbi wants to excommunicate Bernie Madoff for his damage to the Jews. Ok. But where’s the soul searching over Gaza? The occupation? The neocons?
Last night on Hardball, Pat Buchanan said that from a foreign-policy standpoint, the presidential election was about whether the neoconservatives were right or not, in their response to 9/11, two wars and an unending war on terror. The country said…
Just got up, just heard Steve Inskeep of Morning Edition on NPR angrily asking the Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor (whom Horowitz dispatched on this site last night) what the goals were, when it was going to be over, aren’t you…