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…
A few days ago I raised the question of whether targeted assassinations in Iraq are helpful, when they kill so many civilians, and whether we weren’t emulating Israel too much (again). Turns out that in late June on Democracy Now,…
In reading Dershowitz’s rebuttal to Mearsheimer and Walt, I noticed something else he said: “It is rightfully considered vile to suggest that American Catholic politicians such as John F. Kennedy and John Kerry owe their primary allegiance to the Vatican…
I was reading Alan Dershowitz’s autobiography, Chutzpah, the other night when I came to some lines on page 16 that I found shocking: My generaton of Jews was too young to fight against Nazism or for Israeli independence, too American…
The videotape of a Palestinian girl running helplessly around a Gaza beach after the rest of her family was annihilated in an unclaimed explosion got the world’s attention three weeks ago. Horror like this is rarely captured so freshly (even…
The Supreme Court’s stunning rebuke of Bush’s war-trials procedure makes you wonder in what other ways the war on terrorism has transformed our values. Here is another thing to reflect on: In a full-page ad in tomorrow’s Times that questions…