Memo to the Republican Jewish Coalition: In Karen DeYoung’s bio, Soldier, Colin Powell said that Truman’s Sec’y of State George Marshall–a former Army chief of staff–was his “revered” role model, especially in his principled opposition to Truman’s ’48 decision to…
Another example of the ways that Israel-first talk is politely bleeped out of the American conversation. Joe Klein has a tearjerking column about his late friend David Ifshin, “McCain’s Radical Pal,” who as an anti-Vietnam radical gave a speech in…
I can’t really complain about working for nothing when my farflung fossickers are doing all my work for me, can I? The latest feed from Jeff Blankfort, in California. The Washington Post reports on John McCain talking with Jewish American…
Jack Ross writes, re Marty Peretz and Obama: I think you’re way off, if in fact that’s your implication, that Peretz is going to be in the same camp as Jeffrey Goldberg or even Olmert. He, like many Jewish “liberals”,…
MJ Rosenberg, who’s a lot closer to the ground than I am, says that this may be the year that everything has changed. My hopeful reading, anyway. AIPAC “claptrap” is at an ebb, McCain and Obama are both for the…
This article in the Jewish Journal underlines my point of yesterday: worried Jews, paranoid Jews, are sticking with McCain. So Obama might win with only 60 percent of the Jewish vote, and these will be the “more enlightened” (I put…
The Republican Jewish Coalition has an ad saying that Obama has waffled on a divided Jerusalem. First he’s for an undivided Jerusalem, then he’s for a divided one. Jerusalem must remain undivided! says the RJC. I hope the RJC manages…
One big question about the Jesse Jackson/Zionists/Obama story in the NY Post is, How did Amir Taheri get the quotes? Jeff Blankfort has a scenario: The Republican Jewish Coalition issued a press release about Jackson’s quotes as soon as the…
A former instructor at the Army Intelligence School, Howard Lurie writes in my old paper, the Philadelphia Daily News, about the likelihood of an Israeli attack on Iran before November 4, and offers some interesting game theory: Given his views…