Susie Kneedler writes: Keith Olbermann and Newsweek’s Richard Wolffe seem to have discovered that they can (barely) discuss Israel through a left-wing lens by (rightly) linking Cheney to Netanyahu and then discussing Obama’s efforts to broker Israeli-Syria negotiations. Key insights…
From Seymour Hersh’s report in this week’s New Yorker: that Obama put pressure on Israel to end Gaza assault. When former Vice President Dick Cheney learned that Obama had been putting pressure on the Israelis, he angrily disparaged him as…
Typically, I misplayed the bounce on the Pankaj Mishra post earlier today about the reverence among Hindu nationalists for Hitler and Zionism. My friend of Indian extraction gets it right: That’s one thing I love about the Israel-India alliance– Indian…
Say it again: Gaza has struck a blow to the Israel lobby. Here (thanks to Eva Smagacz) is a long column by Jerusalem Post editor David Horovitz that teems with anxiety about the delegitimization of Israel in the eyes of…
Yesterday I caught part of PBS travel guru Rick Steves’s wonderful trip to Iran on television. His whole message was great, till he spoke of “family values” in Iran. That’s why people support the Islamic republic, he said, they have…
Neocon Ira Stoll, writing in the Daily News, claims Lincoln for Israel. He says that Hamas has perpetrated the equivalent of slavery and the only way to fight slavery is to destroy it. He, and Cynthia Ozick too, is upset…
The Weekly Standard has published a cover piece by Gershom Gorenberg on that ancient and somewhat dubious question, Where is the Palestinian Gandhi, that portrays Palestinians as human beings. A rapid scan produces this sentence: That said, absolute nonviolence is…
An important debate took place on Wednesday: What to do if Iran gets nukes? at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Two neoconservatives, Elliott Abrams and Joshua Muravchik, were pitted against the newly-realist Martin Indyk…
Every day now I dip into Kafka, because he was so intelligently engaged with the Jewish question in Europe at a time when Zionism enthralled Jews, because it seemed to be the answer. Kafka was both a Zionist and not…