There’s a fascinating dialogue about Obama’s Middle East collapse, here on Flickr between two photographers–AnomalousNYC, who I think is sorry, is not Arab, and Sky Redoubt. Says Anomalous: Part of Obama’s perplexing obeisance [to the Israel lobby] could have something…
Last November,Yivo, the Jewish institute in New York, staged a panel on Walt and Mearsheimer’s book, The Israel Lobby, titled “A Critical Response.” I bought a ticket. But I was ill that day, and couldn’t make it. Later, two partisans…
Three weeks ago I did a post about the writer “Spengler,” showing how he used two bylines. Under the byline “Shushon” he was dispensing Christian Zionism at the snooty religious journal First Things, saying that Jews are divinely ordained to…
Some day the left will have to answer for the fact that it harbored the neocons for years after the Iraq war proved to be a disaster. I believe this is in some measure a Jewish problem. Even leftleaning Jews…
I can’t say enough about Aaron David Miller’s richly-detailed book The Much Too Promised Land. It puts flesh on the sometimes-skeletal understanding in Walt and Mearsheimer’s book. Anyway, last night I read that George Bush’s historic June 24, 2002 speech…
Jonathan Gray has responded to my post that mentioned him and says I’ve misrepresented his views, and suggests that I made a racist comment, to boot. He writes: As for your desire to have me attack Sam [Freedman] about the…
One of the pleasures of watching Scott McClellan is his sheer ordinariness. In the era of West Wing, the meritocracy, and the “overclass” (my new favorite expression, thank you Samuel Freedman), McClellan is an ordinary Joe. He’s pudgy and not…
In a comment on this site the other day, journalist David Samuels took a neat swipe at me. He said the figure on 1.1 million Jews killed in the destruction of the second temple period comes from the Roman historian…
Scott McClellan is a good man, is all I have to say. He’s a whistleblower of a sort, he’s put country ahead of party and chain-of-command. He even describes how Bush was converted to the neocon delusion, that peace in…