AIPAC’s Unrivalled Power
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 11th, 2011 4:37 am by HL
AIPAC’s Unrivalled Power
Not surprisingly, my recent column on an ugly 1988 experience with AIPAC, the Israeli government, and late New York Times columnist William Safire elicited some controversy. I knew it would. There aren’t that many first-person accounts of encounters with the…
Netanyahu’s House: Knowing Your Audience
Anyone with a shred of knowledge about the Middle East conflict knows that yesterday’s performance alienated its most critical audience. I am not speaking about Netanyahu’s performance. He played the Israeli center, American Jews, and American media like Isaac Stern…
Sderot: Nostalgia For The Future
You would think Prime Minister’s Netanyahu’s insistence that Israel could never go back to the “indefensible” borders of 1967 would play at least as well in bombarded Sderot as it did in the Congress. He certainly thought it would, or…