Obama has said that his role model is Abe Lincoln. Good. In the weeks after the 1860 presidential election, which Lincoln won with only 40 percent of the vote, on a platform against the extension of slavery, politicians worked to…
The Union for Reform Judaism, fresh from its support for the Iraq war, is now cheering the Gaza slaughter as a proportional response to rocket fire from the blockaded territory, and celebrating the Bush administration for its support. Rabbi Eric…
It’s no fun to be marginalized. Let me tell you. The same week that American Enterprise Institute began purging the neoconservatives, and a few weeks after the plug was pulled on the New York Sun, the Forward allows the neocons…
Yesterday I heard Robert Siegel of NPR doing two Christmas stories. One was about NORAD tracking Santa’s movements, as it does every year. And in another story he signed off by saying, “Happy Christmas.” Siegel is of my generation: a…
Last week at the National Press Club, Paul Krugman said what he’s said before, but even more pithily: To be taken seriously on foreign policy in Washington, you have to have been wrong about Iraq. Or words close to that….
I had a New York night. Don’t have them often these days, now that I’m living in the woods and feel the economy like a great stony hand on my shoulder. But: I went to a party in Brooklyn and…
Leon Hadar clarifies his position for me, which I seem to have misrepresented somewhat: I’m all for Obama getting involved and trying to impose a solution. In 1992 I published a article in Foreign Policy magazine, America And Israel: Reforming…
New book by Times reporter Pat Tyler says George Tenet raged against the necon Jews while bathing in Prince Bandar’s pool. Interesting that Tenet wrote a whole book about Iraq and left Jews out of it. Will this finally give…
Bernard Madoff, the alleged fraudster and $50 billion Ponzi man, got tons of money from Jewish establishment figures. He was on the board of Yeshiva U. And one of his victims was a Jewish-oriented foundation, called the Lappin Foundation, which…