I got upset the other day when the Washington Post identified one of McCain’s American Jewish “leaders” as Shlomo Riskin of the Israeli town of Efrat. Efrat is a colonial settlement in the occupied West Bank, in violation of international…
I am thankful for all the comments on the Ace Greenberg “Jewish geography” post of yesterday. One thing I’d say to Richard Witty is that he lives in the sticks; and I am talking about an establishment network. These guys…
Everyone is talking about Jim Lobe’s post on a recent report justifying war on Iran, crafted by Michael Rubin of AEI and Michael Makovsky (who Lobe says worked for Doug Feith to manipulate the intelligence on Iraq and had emigrated…
Earlier today I said that Marty Peretz abandoned the New Left after the October ’73 war between Israel and Egypt and Syria. Wrong. Scott McConnell–who announced today that he will endorse Obama, points out: “Peretz’s disaffection from the left came…
Yesterday I saw Alan “Ace” Greenberg, the trader who built Bear Stearns, on Charlie Rose. Greenberg is 81 and a tough guy, he has the square head and unblinking eyes of a warrior in a Kurosawa movie. (And of course…
in this stirring endorsement of John McCain in today’s Washington Post. Why do I think that Israel’s protection is central, intellectually, to his crazed belief that “We [the U.S.] have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism”? As Israel is central…
Here is a piece of forcible innocence by leftwinger Stephen Zunes. He is staggered that the Republican Jewish Coalition ads attacking Obama have had an effect, that Obama has stepped away from his statement that Palestinians suffer the most and…
Just caught part of a forum between Shrum and Frum (Bob and David) on C-Span, at Georgetown University. Shrum’s a genius, but he’s not my subject. I study Frum carefully as I prepare my novel inspired by Bruno Malinowski: The…
Daniel Pipes is some kind of visiting fellow at Stanford U’s Hoover Institution. Here he argues that Barack Obama was raised Muslim and has ties to extremist Islamists (in which category Pipes seems to includ CAIR of all places) and…