The Washington Times today prints a letter from James J. David, a retired general in Georgia, eloquently calling for sanctions against Israel in light of the unending violence in Gaza/Jerusalem: It seems that this seesaw retaliation will never end, not…
I found David Wurmser’s speech last week frightening. He said that he was able to read “the code” on Ahmadinejad, which revealed that the Iranian president is a messianic Hitler who wants to destroy the west. Wurmser was Vice President’s…
A small point, but an important one. Aaron David Miller mounts the usual strenuous defense of Rob Malley, who either is or is not an adviser to Obama (sorry can’t keep this straight): Perhaps most offensive, several publications have run…
Promoting his new book about the neverending peace process, Aaron David Miller writes in the L.A. Times today that Jimmy Carter wrote a “bad book” about Israel/Palestine, and Walt and Mearsheimer wrote a “bad book” about the Israel lobby. The…
Tonight I caught C-Span’s Book TV, Philip Shenon of the New York Times talking about his 9/11 Commission book to Michael Duffy of Time Mag. Shenon’s argument is that there was massive bungling in the intelligence agencies that resulted in…
I spent a lot of time with Zionists yesterday. I won’t say where, it’s a personal connection that I treasure. Dear old friends, a couple of whom I utterly love. They don’t even know about my blogging activities or if…
The most horrifying detail for me of the Jerusalem massacre was the fact that the gunman apparently worked at the school. Israelis must be saying, we can’t trust any of these Arabs, even our servants and employees. I saw that…
Going into the basement conference room of a law firm on 6th Avenue in New York yesterday to hear former Cheney adviser David Wurmser speak on “What’s at Stake for the West in Lebanon?” I was afraid that the subject,…
The great editor Gene Roberts used to say that big stories don’t break, they ooze. Certainly this is the case with Obama’s meeting with 100 Cleveland Jews a week back, which I believe was merely monumental. The New York Jewish…