Neocons can’t be neocons anymore, or they can’t keep the same names. Here’s an important piece by Jim Lobe and Daniel Luban on a Kristol-Kagan group very much like the defunct Project for a New American Century, which ordered up…
For a brief moment last night, I had a sense of what it would be like to be on the other side of my issue. The evening was coming to an end, at the New York Theatre Workshop– a reading…
Tonight the 92d Street Y held a panel on “Why Zionism has become a dirty word,” with four Zionists on stage and some non-Zionists demonstrating out in Lexington Avenue. The hall was less than half full, and the panel itself…
More lobby fingerprints: Facts & Logic about the Middle East, a tambourine group, here takes credit for forcing Chas Freeman’s withdrawal: Congratulations to all FLAME supporters who responded to our last FLAME Hotline, in which we encouraged you to write…
After last Monday’s 92d Street Y panel on a liberal Jewish lobby, Justin Elliott of TPM did this wonderful interview with one of the panelists, Michelle Goldberg. Goldberg is a lover of Israel who is agonized about what Avigdor Lieberman…
Yesterday I went on Press TV to discuss the Israel lobby with Elazar Barkan and Dan Fleshler, and after the taping, the three of us hung out in a hallway talking. We all disagreed about what the lobby is. I’d…
I started using the words “dual loyalty” about a year and a half ago. Wondered what door I’d pushed open. Now Commentary’s Noah Pollak has accused The American Conservative of “un-American” language over a reference to Israel’s “fifth column,” and…
Last week Sallai Meridor quit as Israeli ambassador to the US with some saying he saw the two countries on a “collision course” with President Obama and PM Netanyahu. Now Eli Lake reports that Netanyahu’s likely choice as national security…
Brilliant piece by Roger Cohen in today’s Times saying, Goddamnit, the Iranians are a lot like us, let’s start talking to them. In a word: heretical. A few comments ahead of the excerpt, then more comment below. First, Cohen’s view…