Soccer Dad on May 18 2009 | Filed under: Iran, Media Watch
Roger Cohen, who has spent the last several months arguing that Iran is moderate because only 75% of its Jews chose to or were able to leave, is at it again ahead of President Obama’s meeting with Prime MInister Netanyahu. In Arabs, Persians Jews he writes:
American interests are, however, another story. They are not served [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on May 18 2009 | Filed under: Iran, Media Watch
During the 1970s, in the era of the Jewish refusniks, this joke emerged from the Soviet Union:
Papa was able to get his family out of the Soviet Union, but he ended up staying behind, hoping for an opportunity to follow them. Until then, he promised he’d write. The code he used to keep the family [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Apr 13 2009 | Filed under: Liberalism Watch, Media Watch
Beck is too silly and not worth your time. So Neiwert says, in this busy, busy weekend; not just in one article, but two.
Back early last year when I was busy critiquing Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, the question came up frequently: Why would I bother? Isn’t it a problem to be treating a book of [...]
Soccer Dad on Apr 03 2009 | Filed under: Israel, Media Watch, Palestinians
New Israeli FM Avigdor Lieberman has the Middle East cognoscenti up in arms. Helena Cobban writes:
He said he considered Israel was still bound by the Road Map provisions from 2003– but stated very clearly that the Palestinians must fulfill their side of the Road Map before Israel needed to do anything. … The positions articulated [...]
Soccer Dad on Mar 27 2009 | Filed under: Hamas, Iran, Israel, Media Watch
In an editorial, the New York Times questions whether Binyamin Netanyahu can be trusted to make peace. There is so much wrong with “Being a partner for peace“, I could spend all day critiquing it. But one point stood out:
If Mr. Netanyahu is serious about being a partner for peace, he will not get in [...]
Soccer Dad on Mar 22 2009 | Filed under: Israel, Media Watch
I suppose that the article Israeli Coalition Appears Fated to Clash With U.S. isn’t nearly as bad as the title. Still it’s got some problems. For example, early on the reporter, Howard Schneider writes:
A leading contender to become defense minister once characterized the two-state solution that forms the basis of U.S. and international policy toward [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Mar 12 2009 | Filed under: Media Watch
This morning, Mr. Bookworm asked me “Who is Charles Freeman?” Because he reads only the Times, he’d never heard of him before today. I gave a brief summary of Freeman’s views re China, the Middle East and 9/11, as well as the fact that he lives in Saudi and Chinese pockets financially. Mr. Bookworm listened [...]
Okie On The Lam on Mar 12 2009 | Filed under: 2nd amendment, Barack Obama, Media Watch
I saw this on Drudge this AM and read Camille Paglia’s harsh critique of the Obama advisers. So harsh, in fact, that for her they shouldn’t be part of the administration any more, if ever they should have in the first place.
Yes, free the president from his flacks, fixers and goons — his posse of [...]
Soccer Dad on Mar 01 2009 | Filed under: Media Watch, Middle East, Palestinians
The Washington Post reports, Tough Options For Clinton on Trip to Mideast, with a sub-head of “Analysts Urge Radical New Approach To Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process”
What are those “tough options?”
Any new peace effort would be complicated by other factors, including the prospect of a new right-wing Israeli government hostile to the idea of a Palestinian state [...]
Okie On The Lam on Feb 23 2009 | Filed under: Hamas, Media Watch
In the March issue of The Atlantic, the Editor’s Note column by James Bennet tells about his encounters with Hamas leader Nizar Rayyan at Rayyan’s home in Gaza. Bennet notes that Rayyan was an educated man, having “written his master’s thesis on martyrdom, before turning to the future of Islam for his doctorate.” Rayyan had [...]
