Day: August 11, 2006

A fascinating piece in Insight, a conservative magazine published by the Washington Times, gives us a glimpse of some pretty interesting inside baseball: the usually sub rosa struggle between pro-Israel and pro-American factions over U.S. policy in the Middle East. The protagonists: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice versus an aspect of what John J. Mearsheimer … Continue reading “Bush vs. Condi”

WASHINGTON – Alarms are definitely on the rise here. And it’s not just because the British police arrested 21 people who were allegedly plotting to bomb up to 10 jetliners between London and the United States in mid-flight over the Atlantic Ocean. Although that probably didn’t help. It’s more the sense that the growing number … Continue reading “Veteran Policy-Makers Fear Disaster in US Course”

An Aug. 9, 2006, opinion by presiding Judge T.S. Ellis III [.pdf] has dealt a decisive blow to forces supporting full dismissal of the AIPAC espionage case. Defendants Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, formerly employed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, D.C., are charged with “cultivating relationships” with government officials cleared … Continue reading “AIPAC Espionage Case Dismissal Gambit Fails”

A Sky News newscaster, interviewing British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Sunday July 30, demanded an answer to this paraphrased question: if indeed Israel had precise intelligence that a Hezbollah operative was present in the village of Qana, in southern Lebanon, how could it possibly fail to realize that the area was also crowded with … Continue reading “Extraordinary Precision”