Esquire has printed a fine piece by John H. Richardson about former NSC analyst Flynt Leverett battling the neocons inside the White House during the runup to the Iraq war. The best moment is when Saudi Prince Abdullah meets with…
Tonight the Yivo Institute in New York is holding a discussion on Walt & Mearsheimer’s book, called “‘The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy’, A Celebration.” Wait, got that wrong– “A Critical Response.” The critical responders are authors Jeffrey Goldberg…
Last night ’60 Minutes’ did a piece on “Curveball,” the Iraqi scientist who fled to Germany in the late 90s and in 2002 provided “intelligence” that Saddam was preparing chemical and biological weapons. Curveball claimed that a dozen technicians had…
This week two Nobel Peace Prizers knelt before my people–American Jews–to ask them to acknowledge the suffering of the Palestinians. At a church in Boston, Desmond Tutu gave a speech about apartheid and Israel/Palestine. He invoked a passage from Deuteronomy…
The Foreign Affairs attack on Walt and Mearsheimer establishes a pattern. Elite opinion in the U.S. is gravely dismissive of the authors. Leslie Gelb in the New York Times. Walter Russell Mead for the Council on Foreign Relations. David Remnick…
Last night I went to a Hallowe’en party and met the mother of a Marine in Iraq. I pulled her into a corner to grill her about Middle East policy. She said the decision to invade was a great mistake,…
Here is a truly weird column about Jewish intelligence by Dana Milbank, the WP columnist who slagged Walt and Mearsheimer last year, labeling them blue-eyed and Teutonic, i.e., Nazis. (In this column he refuses even to dignify W&M by naming…
Last Sunday I went to the CAMERA conference on “Jewish defamers of Israel” and it took me a day or two to recognize what the news was: a speech in which CAMERA president Andrea Levin said that the pro-Israel lobbying…
The feds have arrested David Brooks, the New Yorker who made a fortune selling body armor for the troops in Iraq, on fraud charges. There’s always been a Jewish angle on this story. Brooks lavished money on horses but it…