Today’s a great day. George Bush’s crazily craven speech at the Knesset, a naked obeisance to the Israel lobby, has caused Chris Matthews to charge that Bush and Hillary, with her “obliterate Iran” talk, are competing for a “domestic political”…
Scott McConnell comments on Bush’s promise of giving-up golf while the war’s on: There’s also a more complicated sociological point to be made here: that the WASP establishment which ran the country’s foreign policy rather decently in the years after…
In ’68, Mayor Daley’s police force brutally broke up the antiwar demonstration in Chicago so as to preserve the dignity of the Democratic convention… Forty years on, and Daley’s son, Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, has quashed a City Council…
It’s too bad that Huffington Post runs bellicose articles like this one by Amitai Etzioni, in which he rationalizes the Israeli occupation and dismisses the idea of separation between church and state as high-falutin’ western values. I thought Huffpo was…
Sorry, I meant to post this before the event! The Chicago City Council had an all-star panel today testifying on the dangers of going to war with Iran. John Mearsheimer, Scott Ritter, Stephen Kinzer formerly of the NYT, someone from…
Here’s Bush’s guest list at the 60th birthday party in Israel. I’m still learning my way around the politics of the Israel question, but here are my scores in the free-skating competition: Sheldon Adelson, the biggest Republican donor, a Netanyahu…
A friend is disturbed by Marty Peretz’s renewed endorsement of Obama–“What Obama Said to Me About Israel”, and by Obama’s obeisance to Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, who my friend points out served in the Israeli army in the 80s…
This morning Michael Oren was on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” speaking of Israel’s achievement, and Renee Montagne asked him what he hoped for in the next 60 years. Oren said, he wants an Israel at peace with its neighbors and at…
This week George Bush is to speak at the “President’s Conference” in Israel, which is titled “Facing Tomorrow” and being led by a thinktank called the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute. One of JPPPI’s chief concerns is the “erosion” of…