If you’re an idiot but pro-Israel, you can get a paid platform. If you’re sharply critical of Israel, it is extremely difficult to get paid to express those views. (Name me all the anti-Zionists in media jobs.)
The Burris story stopped being a Blagojevich story when it became a race story. Suddenly a nation that had congratulated itself on ending a color bar in the White House watched an all-white Senate turn a black man out in…
Leila Abu-Saba writes: Yes it’s amusing that you laugh at your own Orientalism – we all have our limitations. Part of becoming truly worldly is then expanding your rustic horizons. Because it doesn’t read as cute in the worldly world,…
David Bromwich writes: Thomas Friedman’s column today, his first on the bombing and invasion of Gaza, enthusiastically supports Israel’s actions as part of a Middle East strategy that Barak Obama ought to endorse. Friedman writes, he says, on behalf of…
I was cutting firewood right now in the ice when I realized that I’d left the most important part of Dana Goldstein’s post out in my last post. Here it is: As a writer with the last name “Goldstein,” I’ve…
as correspondent for conservative website. Jack Ross: The question is, Is he an opportunist or a mad dispensationalist?
Today good liberal Brian Lehrer dedicated a lot of his show on WNYC, the New York public radio station, to dialogue about Gaza. All was undertaken in an earnest manner, and yet I found myself bridling. The dialogue consisted of…
Obama is said to have chosen Dennis Ross, Richard Holbrooke and Richard Haass as his envoys re Iran, Afghanistan/Pakistan, and Israel/Palestine respectively. And the Israel lobby is just another lobby. It is not that some Jews can’t be fairminded. And…
This AP story bears great news, that a ceasefire might be accepted by Israel and Hamas. Notice that the key figures are Sarkozy and Turkey. While Condi Rice attacks Hamas. Also note the horrifying figures: 670 dead, more than 300…