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…
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…