A year ago neocons Richard Perle and Michael Rubin and the former Israeli Ambassador Dore Gold and an Israeli general had a panel at the American Enterprise Institute, and released an elaborate booklet with colored charts inside, putting forward the…
When I went to Syria in January (to visit my wife’s cousin who teaches in Damascus), I signed a visa application on which I had to check a box saying that I had never been to “Occupied Palestine.” I’d never…
Jason Horowitz’s fine piece on the Lieberman-Lamont race in this week’s Observer contains a stretcher, or 2, from N.Y. Congressman Anthony Weiner: ‘[T]he Palestinian position seems to be perfect for the Internet world of pithy back-and-forth and 30-second You Tube…
In the latest New Republic, Israeli scholar Benny Morris is given many pages to expound his view that “the West” is now engaged in a battle with Islamists on three fronts: “Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.” He goes on, “For many…
Just when I was beginning to forget all the gifts of the neoconservatives, the New York Sun Âfunded in part by Juilliard Chairman Bruce KovnerÂtook care to remind me yesterday, in a sparkling front-page editorial titled “Bring Back the Neocons”:…
I have tried to inject the Israel lobby question into the Connecticut Senate race. I gather that on Sunday on C-Span Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, also raised the question of where Lieberman and Lamont stand on this…
A week or so back on Democracy Now, Amy Goodman brought together author Norman G. Finkelstein and AIPAC’s Josh Block to talk about the Gaza troubles. Block, the spokesman for the Israel lobby, made a point of flashing his credentials:…
Last night on the PBS NewsHour, David Brooks defended Sen. Joe Lieberman from attacks on the internet. Brooks is an astute and insightful writer, but he is too often indirect, and last night he abandoned any duty to be specific:…
I thought Lamont won, but then I’m crazed about Iraq. My wife and Imus both said that Lieberman won. He seemed far more rounded as a person. Imus called Lamont a pencil-neck. But if Lieberman won, he damaged himself among…