In the Times the other day, the main critic of the peace talks between Israel and Syria was Dore Gold, the rightwing former ambassador under Netanyahu who emigrated to Israel from the U.S. and doesn’t seem to believe in territorial…
Paul Berman says something smart in this generally-obnoxious feed from a Nextbook festival on Jewish power (!)–written up by in the NY Sun by Adam Kirsch– to which of course no critics of Jewish power, even Jewish critics, were invited….
In an effort to distance himself from his new company, the realists who, like him, oppose the Israel lobby, Jeffrey Goldberg has repeated his ugly claim that Walt and Mearsheimer are antisemites. One reason they’re antisemites, he says, is in…
Now that Jeffrey Goldberg has moved to their position, he finds it necessary to smear Walt and Mearsheimer, lately calling them “vile” so as to preserve his own good standing in the neoconlib Jewish world. This is tactical and offensive….
Jeffrey Goldberg’s anti-Israel-lobby piece on last Sunday’s NYT Op-Ed page continues to resonate. So as to understand it better, I watched Goldberg’s starkly-different performance just six months back, on a panel attacking Walt and Mearsheimer at Yivo, the center of…
Commentary and I agree for once. Jeffrey Goldberg has embraced Walt and Mearsheimer. After trashing the brave authors last year, says Commentary, Goldberg concedes most of their substantive case. Hooray. Earlier today I said Goldberg showed real courage, and spent…
Jeffrey Goldberg’s piece yesterday in the Times is very important. Goldberg is someone many Jews look to for guidance, and his piece is the green flag to the American Jewish community to have open war over Israel and the lobby….
Tom Friedman has a good piece about the peace process and Israel today, or a halfway digestible one anyway. It is influenced by the goodnatured Aaron David Miller. But Friedman persists in offering the lone-gunman theory of Iraq: The rise…
Yesterday I saw the neoconservative Robert Kagan on Charlie Rose. It was an astonishing performance, as it suggested the psychic torment that those who pushed the Iraq war are evidently now undergoing and suppressing at the same time. Kagan’s message…