I’m amazed that NPR did a story on the “Great Schlep,” Sarah Silverman’s campaign to get Jewish kids to go to Florida to push their grandparents to vote for Obama and didn’t talk about the Israel issue. I heard some…
Goosebumps material. Or goosesteps. Last night somebody sent me a scary piece against Obama in the Jerusalem Post by Orthodox rabbi Jonathan Rosenblum. I think he emigrated there from the U.S. Rosenblum is adamantly against an Obama effort to revive…
The Republican Jewish Coalition sent out an email today on Rev. Jesse Jackson’s statement of Obama’s secret views about Israel/Palestine (an interpretation I share). RJC boss Matt Brooks sees these views as a source of concern to Jewish voters: As…
Sky Redoubt sent me a couple of bits from the New Yorker worth reading. One comes from the collection last week of Norman Mailer’s correspondence touching on political issues over the years. To Diana Trilling in 1966: I don’t make…
Here is Sampo–my hiphop abbreviation for Samantha Power–suggesting that we should maybe impose a solution in Israel/Palestine. She said all this six years ago, before she got took to the woodshed: Though “imposition of a solution on unwilling parties is…
The reason this blog exists (I often say) is because of something one of my siblings said to me in 2003: “I demonstrated against the Vietnam war, but my Jewish newspaper says this war could be good for Israel.” This…
The Financial Times is a great newspaper. They have a piece on Bibi Netanyahu’s plans for a Palestinian “entity.” Netanyahu himself jumping up to the white board. Well it’s subdivided “into a collection of disconnected economic zones with dedicated business…
Ralph Seliger writes: Since my innocently neglecting to respond to a question of yours has been used against Meretz USA, let me say that insofar as I can recall, the discussion that we had about Iraq was not for or…
This is weird. Last week American Thinker, one of countless neocon websites that are underfoot these days, ran a piece by Ed Lasky titled, “How Allies of George Soros Helped Bring Down Wachovia Bank,” and blamed Wachovia’s troubles on a…