We don’t know Barack Obama, so his comments in S.F. about bitter working people are highly revealing. He’s an intellectual, a progressive, and yes probably an arrogant elitist, too. Not a bad mix. For the last eight years we’ve had…
I got about 60 pages into Aaron David Miller’s book, The Much Too Promised Land, a couple weeks back and registered displeasure. The next 40 pages aren’t an improvement. His book makes the claim that the close relationship between Israel…
The New York Jewish Week says that Democrats have failed so far in their efforts to pin Rev. Hagee on McCain, in the way that the rightwing has pinned Rev. Wright on Obama. Don’t give up! Americans need to understand…
The other day, Elisabeth Bumiller, a fine reporter, used the n-word on the front page of the Times, writing of neoconservative influence on McCain. Yesterday I saw her on MSNBC, speaking about neoconservatism like it was a dirty word. And…
Yesterday’s LA Times had a front-page story making a point I’ve also made: supporters of Palestinian self-determination have high hopes in Obama: Obama is a U.S. senator from Illinois who expresses a firmly pro-Israel view of Middle East politics, pleasing…
According to the BBC, Richard Falk, who is to be the U.N.’s next special investigator for human rights in the Palestinian territories, has compared Israeli actions in Palestinian territories to Nazi actions–and then refused to retract the comparison. Professor Falk…
God bless Al-Jazeera for airing a debate between two Americans that would never take place on American television: John J. Mearsheimer and Norman G. Finkelstein dispute the question, Was Israel’s security a motivator of the Iraq war? Nay, said Finkelstein….
The other day I praised Jerrold Nadler–cause he’s a smart guy who voted against the Iraq War. But along with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Nadler has lately sponsored useless AIPAC-type legislation to recognize the Jewish refugees from Arab countries after ’48: When…
Hurray for the Times. On Tuesday it carried a profile of John McCain’s friend, the Rev. John Hagee, that pointed up his maximalist position re the West Bank as Israeli territory forever and quoted Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the head of…