I continue to applaud the New Yorker’s knocking off Sheldon Adelson last week, but with one hand. It has the feeling of special pleading to me. In fact, it even created an undercurrent of sympathy in me for its villain,…
Abe Foxman of the ADL has responded to Joe Klein’s blog where he said that Jewish neoconservatives had divided loyalties in supporting the Iraq war: It is inappropriate to identify a group that clearly has Jews and non-Jews within its…
I’ve finally read Connie Bruck’s profile of the self-proclaimed richest Jew in the world, Sheldon Adelson, in The New Yorker and I’m a little dismayed. I think it’s great the magazine ran the story, and great that it spoke so…
J Street, the leftish Jewish lobby, is having an effect. Here is a piece urging Obama to make common cause with the “other Jewish lobby”– not the Likudnik-neocon lobby, AIPAC. Here is J Street’s great ad in the New York…
I have some limited sympathy for Doug Feith as a guy who’s been abruptly marginalized; it’s hard to imagine a more precipitous farewell. It reminds me of seeing former Cheney aide David Wurmser speaking at a New York law firm…
The Washington Independent runs a story by James Risen of the New York Times that makes a half-hearted effort to rehabilitate Douglas Feith. Feith says the piece was killed by the Times.The Washington Independent calls the story “The Return of…
The Joe Klein dual-loyalty assertion is being debated everywhere, including here by Shmuel Rosner, who goes thru some formalities about being an Israeli so he can’t comment then promptly tosses that aside to speak as a member of the Jewish…
Responding to my post of yesterday, my friend Nim Chimpsky, a primate, pointed out to me that Joe Klein was brave before about the make-Israel-safe logic in the minds of the Iraq war planners. Klein wrote this piece in February…
Iraq was a preemptive war. But that language has been discredited, so the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a station of the Israel lobby, has put out a paper all-but-calling for military strikes against Iran, which it describes as…