Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution was a big promoter of the Iraq War (Glenn Greenwald has machicolated him definitively). And today he was on NPR talking about ideology. Reporter Scott Horsley, noting that McCain calls himself an idealist realist,…
Drudge is reporting that Obama’s sunrise visit to the Western Wall set off a mob scene and cries of Jerusalem is not for sale. You’d think this would be an opportunity for journalism and open discussion of American policy. Wrong….
The new alternative Jewish lobby is proving its worth. Yesterday J Street released a detailed survey of American Jewish political opinion. J Street interprets this data in a favorable way to its own efforts, saying that overwhelmingly Jews vote Democratic,…
On reflection I have to say that while I was cheering him on, Michael Scheuer went a little overboard yesterday in his indictment of the neocons on antiwar.com: Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Norman Podhoretz, Victor Davis Hanson, the Rev. Franklin Graham,…
I’m late for the neocon bus! Last week the Washington Post ran an Op-Ed by a Harvard Law student calling for an investigation of the National Endowment for the Humanities for its funding of Arabic instruction materials. The student, who…
David Bloom of Adalah New York writes me apropos of my post on the Israeli settler who wrote to Haaretz about the rights of Palestinians: “… That settler has deluded himself into thinking that he can live in Gush Etzion…
The effect of Joe Klein’s comment re dual loyalty has been incredible. He’s broken the seal. Here is Michael Scheuer writing on antiwar.com that for the neocons and Liebermans, it’s Israel first last and always, and it’s time for the…
The Wall Street Journal piece on Sheldon Adelson is just OK. It says he’s the cash cow for the Republican Party and says he’s religious on Israel in a neoconservative kinda way. The piece doesn’t move the ball down the…
The Indianapolis Star reports that former congressman John Hostettler, a Republican representing southern Indiana, has self-published a book that puts the decision to invade Iraq on George Bush with a revenge motive, and neocons with a pro-Israel agenda. The excerpt…