The crisis of Zionism in the United States–and I think actually the end of Zionism as an invigorating ideology for the next generation of Jews–arises from two big factors: 1, Israel is practicing apartheid in the West Bank, as is…
Today on Fresh Air, Terry Gross asked former CIA officer Robert Baer to tell her some good news, and he said, Olmert said it this week; the key to peace in the Middle East is to give up the West…
Ralph Seliger says he and I are near the end of our dialogue. Here’s his latest. I have no response for now. Maybe later. But I like to give opponents the last word here anyway. Ralph: Since you were curious…
Ralph Seliger is responding to me, then I respond to him. It’s a conversation about Jewish identity and Israel. Seliger: You don’t just have a “problem with identity politics”; you also have a problem with your identity, and this is…
Chris Matthews inched up to the line on the neoconservatives tonight in a conversation with Pat Buchanan about the briefing of Sarah Palin. Don’t you think, Matthews said, that McCain’s foreign policy guru Randy Scheunemann is scripting her on this…
Well the NY Sun is no more. Today’s its last issue. Seth Lipsky announced that he could not find another partner, for that fearsome front line of Steinhardt, Hertog, Kovner, and Tisch. Israel is everything to Steinhardt and Hertog. “I…
Ralph Seliger and Steve F. respond to me re the right of return. Seliger first: It’s simple history that Israel overran its borders in 1948, because the tides of war permitted it to. The Palestinian and external Arab forces made…
Nir Rosen has an amazing report in The National from a Sunni town in Lebanon where gunmen block the Beirut-Damascus road and send suicide bombers to blow up Shiites in Iraq: After the war in Iraq – which empowered Shiite…
I keep missing a big campaign story that is on my beat: the efforts by a shadowy network that has Jerusalem connections to distribute DVDs of the movie “Obsession,” which portrays Islam as the fount of jihad, to voters in…