Jonathan Chait is hung up on attacking J Street, Walt and Mearsheimer, Eric Alterman, Ezra Klein, all as “virulent,” seems like, but it’s hard to keep all the names straight amid the torrent of words here. This is not a…
A Toronto Globe and Mail report from Jerusalem says that anti-Arab feeling is rising among Israeli youth. They’re more receptive to “transfer” ideas, and chant “Death to Arabs.” The piece strikes me as an implicit argument against the idea of…
Our mail is pouring in on “60 Minutes.” Viewers have never seen ANYTHING like this on mainstream television before. They are grateful. We are too. We must honor Bob Simon/CBS for a heroic piece of journalism. Myself I loved seeing…
Tonight was such an important night in American journalism that I want to add a little to what Adam says above. Bob Simon’s report was great old 60 Minutes journalism. It was good guys and bad guys. It was rage…
Our politicians won’t change till our journalism changes. Jackson Diehl, deputy editorial page editor of the Washington Post remembers that George Mitchell wanted an end to settlements, and the Israelis thumbed their noses at him: Imagine a U.S. administration prepared…
From Jerusalem Post. Imagine an Afrikaaner getting an invite from Reagan at the height of apartheid.
Here’s Bob Simon of “60 Minutes” on Charlie Rose talking about an upcoming “60 Minutes” piece on the settlers on the West Bank: He says that history has passed the 2-state solution by. It is impossible to remove the 300,000…
Here’s what J Street is up against. This Sunday there’s going to be a “In support of Israel and its operation in Gaza” rally in New York. There’s not a word in the rally promotion about the hundreds of Palestinians…
My friend Hannah Mermelstein has filed this piece from Palestine saying that the “civil war” between Israel and the settlers masks the true source of the conflict, a landgrab that goes back 60 years. The settlers say, What’s the difference…