The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Israel Update: Prime Minister Netanyahu Cancels White House Meeting

Not giving Obama another chance to snub him: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled plans to meet U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Tuesday, an Israeli statement said, in the wake of a deadly Israeli raid on Gaza-bound ships. “Netanyahu decided to cut short his visit to Canada and return to Israel early,” […]

Flotilla of Fools vs. Israeli Navy

Like a scene straight from the pages of Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints, a group of activists calling themselves the “Freedom Flotilla” have attempted — and evidently, failed — to break the Israeli blockade of Hamas-held Gaza: The Israeli Navy made its first contact with a flotilla carrying hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists and […]

Two Kinds of Jews

Philip Klein explains:  [T]he difference between a Jewish liberal and a Jewish conservative is that when a Jewish liberal walks out of the Holocaust Museum, he feels, “This shows why we need to have more tolerance and multiculturalism.” The Jewish conservative feels, “We should have killed a lot more Nazis, and sooner.” Exactly so, and […]

Blame Glenn Beck

A liberal warns us that extremist right-wing racists are taking over . . . Israel! [T]he Netanyahu coalition is the product of frightening, long-term trends in Israeli society: an ultra-Orthodox population that is increasing dramatically, a settler movement that is growing more radical and more entrenched in the Israeli bureaucracy and army, and a Russian […]

Who Is Rachel Tabachnick, and Why Is She Attacking Phyllis Chesler?

This may be a more important question than it appears at first glance, because you may not know who Phyllis Chesler is, and you’ve almost certainly never heard of Rachel Tabachnick. But there is a mystery afoot, so follow the clues, Scooby-Doo. First things first: Phyllis Chesler is an important feminist author who, after 9/11, […]

National Security Advisor Archie Bunker

No need to get all outrageously outraged here, but Gen. James Jones ought to have thought twice before telling Jew jokes at a foreign-policy seminar: Professor William Jacobson observes: I have no problem with the joke. I think we have to be able to laugh at ourselves, including laughing at stereotypes; in humor we often […]

Geirei Toshav

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — Not that there was ever any doubt, but I’m now a Certified Righteous Gentile after attending a Passover seder Monday hosted by Barbara Espinosa’s friends Larry and Jobi Rosen. The haggadah wasn’t strictly traditional — part of the ritual telling of Israel’s deliverance from Egyptian slavery was performed to the tune of “Gilligan’s […]

‘Crisis’ in Israel-U.S. Relations

Pamela Geller in NewsMax: U.S.-Israeli relations have hit a 35-year low over the contentious east Jerusalem building project. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren said, “Israel’s ties with the United States are in their worst crisis since 1975 . . . a crisis of historic proportions.” R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. in The American Spectator: Historians will some day […]

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