Further proof that anyone who said Walt and Mearsheimer were extremists had their head up their Today’s Ha’aretz reports the formation of a lobbying group to counter AIPAC’s hawkish position in the U.S. George Soros is involved. So is IPF,…
MJ Rosenberg has a fascinating column this week on a potential new axis in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Israel… Rosenberg calls for, egad, creative thinking on the Bush Administration’s part to seize the moment on a Palestinian state….
A number of friends passed on the article in yesterday’s Times where Joe Lieberman said that Ned Lamont was not committed to Israel, during a trip by the Senator to New York to raise money in Jewish circles. The challenger…
I left Israel last summer with the awareness that the people there live in misery. I was moved by a friend’s grim summary of the situation: “The Arabs don’t want us here, they just don’t. So we have to accept…
Today’s New York Sun prints a vicious attack on Tony Judt as a professor who has “become hostile to the Jewish state” in an article about the Polish consulate in N.Y. abruptly cancelling a Judt speech last night under pressure…
Condi (I’m at a loss to spell her name) Rice has returned to the Middle East, and under the headings of Muhammed cartoons, sexism, and racism, it should be remembered that 2 months ago a Palestinian paper printed an ugly…
Leon Hadar of Cato Institute says that he has been openly critical of American policy vis-a-vis Israel. He cited his book Sandstorm, which I will get, so I can improve myself. Though I am keeping open my challenge re the…
As I went downtown on the subway Thursday I wondered whether I wasn’t going to seem a fool for how excited I’d been in the days leading up to the debate. Then when I got there that selfconsciousness vanished, because…
I got home quite late from the Israel lobby debate and am on deadline for print, so I won’t get around to a full report till later, but thought it best to file a few impressions while the world is…