Thanks to Phil Weiss for alerting me to Time Magazine's new issue. As Phil noted, this is big. Time has staked its journalistic reputation on coming out four square against the Gaza attack....

The death toll continues to mount on this the third day of Operation Solid Lead intended by Israel to break the back of Hamas and uproot its...

Seems to me that Rick Warren, one of the most popular Christian evangelical pastors in the nation, has some splainin' to do to the Muslim bruthas when he speaks to the Muslim American Political Affairs Council national convention in two weeks. You see, Brother Rick engaged in a...

I thrive on ferreting out the unexamined assumptions of Israel's uncritical supporters. One of them is The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg. Israel Policy Forum just e-mailed me a panel discussion he conducted with Israel's former New York consul general, Alon Pinkas. The sheer chutzpah of Goldberg's statements about Rahm...

There seems to be a semi-conspiratorial meme developing in the left blogosphere that Rahm Emanuel's appointment as Obama chief of staff (along with Dennis Ross' potential role at State possibly dealing with Iran or Israel-Palestine negotiations) involves a sort of "pro-Israel fix" in which Aipac guarantees itself both...

From the New York Times:

Gov. Sarah Palin will meet with former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia during the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, an aide to Senator John McCain's presidential campaign said.

Ms. Palin is to...

It's important that progressives be clear in their discussion of the issue of Sarah Palin's 17 year-old daughter's pregnancy. The issue is not that her daughter is pregnant. That is something that unfortunately happens to too many American teenagers. But it is a personal issue and should remain so.

The...

Looks like we have another proselytizing episode like the one that afflicted the U.S. Air Force Academy, in which the chaplains were pressuring students to become evangelical Christians. In this case,...

The N.Y. Times reports that Barack Obama has picked Joe Biden as his running mate. And all I can say is ho-hum. He's playing it safe. Telling the...

You remember that tiresome evangelical favorite: "What would Jesus do?" Well, here's a version I'm glad I don't have to think about concerning the current Georgia crisis: What would Don do?

Following recent disturbing developments in the Caucasus, and after reading the statements from George Bush and Secretary of Defense...

Jerome Corsi, the right-wing pamphleteer who wrote Unfit for Command, and helped set the tone for the Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry in 2004, is back. He's now trying to do the same to Barack...

Yes indeed. The nation's most gullible neocon journalist is back to cheerlead the Iraq war. Just in case you're wondering what august nationally-distinguished journalistic enterprise is gracing its pages with Miller's deeply researched writing, let me spare you the suspense: it's the Reader's Digest. Yes, I know. The decline and...

Ori Nir, communications director of Americans for Peace Now, interviewed Imad Moustapha (audio), Syria's U.S. ambassador, about the current Syria-Israel peace negotiations being brokered by Turkey. Moustapha made an impressive pitch that...

John McCain is trying to paint Barack Obama into a corner regarding the question of whether Osama bin Laden deserves due process if or when U.S forces capture him. Leaving aside the fact that McCain's good buddies Bush and Cheney haven't been able to capture him for seven years...

It's rare in the history of national conflicts that you see truces that are doomed before they are even announced. Truces where both sides denounce each other and practically predict its demise. So this truce follows the miserable history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A truce painstakingly negotiated between Israel and...

I swear to you I couldn't make up this shit if I tried. And if you think this story is "nutty," you'd be right.

Apparently, the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel has gotten all worked up over the fact that Israel is violating its own laws against trading with the...

I'm filing this one under the "Say, what?" category:

Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a top Clinton fund-raiser, telecommunications entrepreneur and member of the Democratic National Convention's platform committee, said she had questions about Mr. Obama's trustworthiness. If he does not answer them, Ms. de Rothschild said she would...

Jim Lobe notes that McCain's AIPAC speech predictably invoked the Holocaust to explain why the U.S. and Israel must stand alone as a bulwark against Iran:

[...]While he did not repeat the Bush administration's mantra that "all options", including a military attack, should remain "on the table" in dealing...