From Marty Peretz's TNR blog The Spine: A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. So she went to check it out. She went to the Western Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy s...

Surprise! In a swift about face from her views as New York's senator, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now hammering Israel over its treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. As First Lady, Clinton raised eyebrows when she kissed Suha Arafat. Since she was then seeking a Senate seat the resulting brou...

It's official - Chas Freeman will be in charge of filtering and evaluating the intel that President Obama sees. He'll be using the same kind of analytic nuance that led him to once declare that "Israel excels at war... it has shown no talent for peace." And in case you didn't know - that little piec...

If you're interested in how the vaunted foreign policy community is circling its wagons around professional Israel hater Chas Freeman, you can check out this endorsement in the guise of an article by pro-Freeman partisan Laura Rozen: A source close to Freeman said that among the critics taking shots...

Obama's cadre of foreign policy experts insist that - no matter how much of a hatefest Durban II becomes - there's never any harm in just talking. That's 100% true. Unless you count undermining British and Italian objections to the bigoted spectacle... Britain and Italy could join Canada and Israel ...

First James Jones was plucked out of his Middle East State Department job - where he was creating a paper trail blaming Israel for Palestinian intransigence - and appointed National Security Adviser. Since then he's been very efficiently making sure that the President only hears what he wants the Pr...

I wasn't going to write about this tool again, but duty calls. The Council runner up from a few weeks ago was The Provocateur, writing about the vapid press coverage that's allowing Obama to channel his campaign thuggishness into a historically unprecedented Executive powergrab. The top non-Council ...

Marty Peretz is undoubtedly among of the most serious, argumentatively adept pro-Israel American leftists. That's not exactly high praise in a community stacked with people like Bob Wexler and NJDC tool Aaron Keyak. But it's still not nothing. During the election he did yoeman's work for Obama in th...

Hey, remember that time in 2005 when Tom Friedman said that a Netanyahu-led Likud would electorally implode? And that a Sharon-led center would evacuate Gaza so the Palestinians could turn it into Dubai? Good times: Why, you ask? Because the Likud under Bibi, and without Ariel Sharon, will be free t...

I used to think that this guy was a mendacious hack who sniveled pathetically when forced to confront the anti-Semitism of his vicious leftist friends. But now I'm beginning to think that he's merely a garden-variety idiot: Supporters of the status quo had better get used to it. The American approac...