Scott McConnell comments on Bush’s promise of giving-up golf while the war’s on: There’s also a more complicated sociological point to be made here: that the WASP establishment which ran the country’s foreign policy rather decently in the years after…
Last week I blogged about Commentary’s piece denying the Nakba, which was underwritten by the chairman of the New-York Historical Society– a landmark of Nakba denial, published in what was once a glory of Jewish intellectual tradition: Commentary, the magazine…
Tonight I watched one of Keith Olbermann’s trademark rants against George Bush. It went on for 15 minutes of vituperative outrage, generally surrounding Bush’s politico interview, and his decision to give up golf while the Iraq War was going on……
Here’s Bush’s guest list at the 60th birthday party in Israel. I’m still learning my way around the politics of the Israel question, but here are my scores in the free-skating competition: Sheldon Adelson, the biggest Republican donor, a Netanyahu…
A friend is disturbed by Marty Peretz’s renewed endorsement of Obama–“What Obama Said to Me About Israel”, and by Obama’s obeisance to Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, who my friend points out served in the Israeli army in the 80s…
How many years will it be till neoconservative Commentary Magazine apologizes for its Nakba denial? 5, 10, 50? Well, I’m setting the egg-timer. Because the National Post of Canada, a neocon hive–owned by rightwing Jews, long guarantor of a platform…
I just watched the great Lincoln Chafee, formerly a Rhode Island senator, now the author of Against the Tide, on C-Span talking about the war and politics at the Watson Institute last month. He made a few great points. The…
Here’s an eye-opener. My latest Commentary, for May, has as its top story not a celebration of Israel’s birth, but a denial of the Nakba: “1948, Israel, and the Palestinians–The True Story,” by Efraim Karsh, who has something of a…
David Remnick has a pretty-damn-good piece in the New Yorker on Benny Morris’s new book, concluding, “Next month, the Israelis mark the sixtieth anniversary of their independence, the Palestinians the sixtieth anniversary of al-nakba, the catastrophe.” So Nakba recognition has…