Michael Massing (a friend of mine) has a great piece in the Columbia Journalism Review called “The War Expert,” marvelling at the fact that Brookings Institution scholar Kenneth M. Pollack still gets called up to opine in editorial pages about…
Tim Russert has a politics show on MSNBC after Meet the Press and just now I heard him and guests Tucker Carlson and Ryan Lizza analyze the living hell out of Rev. Wright in Chicago and his black church and…
The Jewish Daily Forward has openly identified “some of” Hillary Clinton’s biggest donors as a “cadre” of Jews with the power to “influence” the Democratic Party’s decision to prolong the fight between her and Obama until the convention, or not….
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is staging an endless series of talks by “leading foreign policy experts” under the title, “Road to 2008: American Leadership in an Uncertain World.” The series includes neoconservative Joshua Muravchik, the American Enterprise Institute…
To its great credit, The Times has a piece today on Route 443 in the West Bank, a modern highway Palestinians can’t use. Based in part on Gershom Gorenberg’s research, the piece twice uses the a-word: The Association for Civil…
The Daily Lobo in New Mexico has a wonderful letter today from a Vicki Johnson comparing the Tibetan occupation to the Palestinian one. Israel has tortured Palestinians, and China has tortured Tibetans, including female monks. Perhaps inspired by ancient China,…
The New Republic is calling for Obama to throw ret. Air Force General Merrill McPeak under the bus because of comments in ’03 about the Israel lobby. TNR’s Noam Scheiber, who describes McPeak as a loose cannon on two earlier…
The N.Y. Jewish Week is reporting that at long last progressive Zionists are forming an alternative lobby to AIPAC and will announce their plans next month. Under the working title, the “J Street” group (an inside reference to AIPAC as…
The Republican Jewish Coalition is calling on Obama to fire General McPeak because he blamed American Jews for the lack of progress in the peace process… Meantime James Fallows is shocked that the Clintons are circulating the American Spectator hitjob…