You remember Merrill McPeak, the tall, lean retired general and military adviser for Obama who said last week that Bill Clinton was behaving like Joe McCarthy? Well in The American Spectator, McPeak is accused of a lack of political correctness…
Like other progressive Zionist groups, Brit Tzedek is utterly engaged right now out of the belief that it’s now or never for the two-state deal. If it doesn’t happen now there will be chaos and Hamas on the Palestinian side…
Last night I went to a Brit Tzedek event–two-state solution progressive Zionists–at an Upper West Side synagogue. More to say later, I’m traveling, but I wanted to note one statement that was made. A guest speaker, Gershon Baskin, an Israeli…
Last night my wife and I went to a sophisticated dinner party in the Hudson Valley. Pheasant, a lavish cheese plate with dessert. There was grace before the meal; thank god no reference to Jesus Christ. A very liberal crowd….
More on Arafat’s supposed intransigence. In summer 2001 Jerome Slater published this article in the Political Science Quarterly demonstrating that Arafat had repeatedly sought to make a peace with Israel and that the best he’d gotten was an offer at…
The talking heads say that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is way outside the mainstream. Maybe. I’d like to point to two important pieces of writing by leftwing women, right after 9/11, that are remarkably similar to stuff Wright has said. Here…
Yesterday the Israel Policy Forum called on Secretary Rice to “engage Hamas” so as to keep the peace process alive and protect American interests in the Middle East. The statement was evenhanded. It spoke of “deaths and suffering” on both…
Haaretz has an AP story saying that the guy who ran the prostitution ring that was former N.Y. Governor Eliot Spitzer’s downfall has an Israeli passport. Seems he’s an Israeli. U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael H. Dolinger ordered Mark Brener, 62,…
I need to restrain my enthusiasm about Chris Matthews. He’s my go-to guy for politics, he’s both brilliant and streetsmart (though his self-indulgent streak–lately he’s been airing clips of his dancing on Ellen DeGeneres’s show, two nights in a row–is…