On his book tour, Alan Greenspan has been talking about the dangers of capitalism. Sounding the socialist, he sees a moral problem with the rising gap between rich and poor. The unprivileged will begin to question the rightness of capitalism…
My friend Dan Fleshler, who opposed the Iraq war, exonerates Jewish neocons of the charge of dual loyalty (to the U.S. and Israel) in a post on Huffpo. Interesting, but I think his argument is weak. First off, Fleshler says…
John Judis of the New Republic begins this very thoughtful article about Jim Moran in an angry way, by saying that the congressman’s statement that we wouldn’t be invading Iraq were it not for the Jewish community’s support was “false…
This weekend the Times did a piece on Freedom’s Watch, the new pro-war advocacy group. Once again it left out the Jewish angle, that the leaders of the group are rightwing Jews (one of whom has given $60 million to…
One of the interesting things about Walt & Mearsheimer’s book is their reliance on the left. Their citations overflow with lib-lefters, from Counterpunch to the Nation to J.J. Goldberg to Michael Massing. Leftwing rabbi Michael Lerner has embraced W&M. But…
Give the devil his due, the true star of the Philadelphia synagogue event I went to a week ago was Daniel Pipes. Pipes was the most physically impressive of the speakers, at about 6-6 it would seem, and true to…
I had an emotionally-turbulent night at the neocon panel at Beth Hillel Wednesday. I was there with my liberal parents, with whom I have some disagreement over Middle East issues, and before the event, Chabad Rabbi Shraga Sherman, who wrapped…
Alissa Rubin of the Times had a fabulous piece of reporting from Baghdad yesterday that included the following: “The withdrawal of the occupation forces is a must because they have caused the destruction of Iraq, they committed massacres against the…
What a pity that politico, in covering Obama’s campaign, tries to shame him for having Zbig Brzezinski as a foreign policy adviser when Brzezinski has “controversial” “baggage”– he endorsed Walt and Mearsheimer’s groundbreaking book on the Israel lobby. Reporter Ben…