How has the internet liberated journalists? Tom Ricks works at the Washington Post. He also has perches at Foreign Policy and some thinktank. Here a genius post at Foreign Policy about the Post op-ed page titled, Stop the Insanity! In…
Wonderful piece of analysis of the hateful colonization program, from Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett at Foreign Policy, showing that Obama has accepted pro-Israel premises inherent in George W. Bush’s doomed roadmap project: the road map’s most significant flaw comes…
Lately we’ve been conducting an informal roundtable on the challenge, Offer readers a forward-looking solution in Israel/Palestine. The following is a response from David Zellnik, a leading young playwright, and non-Zionist Jew. Actions are more important than words, as in…
The best line in Nathan Guttman’s piece in the Forward about the Justice Department’s effort to prove that a pro-Israel spy ring was operating inside the Pentagon, AIPAC and the Israeli Embassy came from Steve Rosen, the former AIPAC lobbyist…
Hardworking Nathan Guttman gets the first interview with Hawaiian-beshirted Larry Franklin, the former Defense department analyst who was the only man to go down in the investigation of AIPAC lobbyists Rosen and Weissman: His superiors at the time were both…
Jack Ross writes: Dershowitz is still, at least half-heartedly defending Obama–Commentary’s take with a link to the column. I’m not sure quite what to make of it. On the one hand, Dershowitz takes pretty much the same position as Norman…
Surprise. Max Boot at Commentary wants Israel to bomb Iran now. So does John Bolton, speaking from the fever ward, the Washington Post op-ed page. The former ambassador says the Tehran revolt has upped the urgency for regime change. Significantly,…
Rob Browne writes: I just saw this article by Amira Hass in Haaretz on a private Israeli security firm that is running a checkpoint and is implementing more severe restrictions on food that can be brought into Israel than the…
What’s Marty Peretz’s game? Elena Bonner, widow of Andrei Sakharov, gave a speech in Norway. The New Republic picked it up, and Peretz called it “wonderful.” Bonner has a harsh streak. Here she is on the two-state solution: [C]reated next…