Is Chas Freeman, who has withdrawn his nomination to chair the National Intelligence Council, a victim of “the Israel Lobby”? Freeman himself certainly thinks so. Andrew Sullivan concurs. I find Freeman’s views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as summed up in the “money quote” in this post from Andrew, to be quite lacking in the “balance” [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 7, 2009
Fools rush in
(Yes, another tired pun on the word “rush.”) What do I think on the great debate about Rush Limbaugh and the GOP? I don’t think there’s any way in which it can be good for the Republican Party to be seen as in thrall to The Mouth That Roared, any more than it would be [...]
March 2, 2009
Blame Canada
Apparently, this week is official Israel Apartheid Week on 40 campuses around the world — a movement that started a few years ago in Toronto. While schools in Canada have removed some offensive posters associated with the event (a cartoon of a hook-nosed Hasidic Jew with a bazooka, another showing an Israeli plane with a [...]
