What kind of an addiction is Israel, anyway? It generates more coverage, per capita and per square foot, than any story in the history of the world. For an American Jew, this is gratifying but also troublesome, since nothing looks very appetizing under a microscope, much less a pitched, centuries-old battle between politicians and zealots. Read More
When Howard Dean hit New York several weeks ago, he made two stunning but characteristic comments. Speaking with fervor at the final D.N.C. forum prior to his election as party chairman, he explained to the assembled flock that he didn’t just disagree with Republicans on specific issues, but rather that “I hate the Republicans and Read More
Write your own Thomas Friedman column!
1. Choose your title to intrigue the reader through its internal conflict:
a. War and Peas
b. Osama, Boulevardier
c. Big Problems, Little Women
2. Include a dateline from a remote location, preferably dangerous, unmistakably Muslim:
a. Mecca, Saudi Arabia
b. Islamabad, Pakistan
c. Mohammedville, Trinidad
3. Begin your Read More
The next episode of that laff-riot, the Arab-Israeli tussle, is entitled Operation Vidkun. A word of explanation: Please recall that in the previous episode, Marcus Aurelius Bush published a Presidential rescript decreeing that regime change be imposed on Yasir Arafat. The Presidential bull further required Mr. Arafat to retire to Hollywood, where he is to Read More
The defense of Zacarias Moussaoui, the Frenchman of Moroccan origin who allegedly was meant to be the 20th hijacker, got off to a bad start in a Virginia courtroom last week. Mr. Moussaoui assailed “pagans, Jews, Christians and hypocrites,” and said that he prayed for “the destruction of the United States” and of “the Jewish Read More
As these words are written, Ariel Sharon is literally destroying the Palestinian Authority and appears determined to expel, imprison or possibly even kill its chairman, Yasir Arafat. The Israeli prime minister insists that his army’s incursion into the territories is a temporary measure, intended only to uproot the “infrastructure of terrorism.” After that is achieved Read More
What kind of an addiction is Israel, anyway? It generates
more coverage, per capita and per square foot, than any story in the history of
the world. For an American Jew, this is gratifying but also troublesome, since
nothing looks very appetizing under a microscope, much less a pitched,
centuries-old battle between politicians and zealots. Read More
Baseball fans will argue through the winter about exactly why Roger Clemens picked up a shattered baseball bat and hurled it towards Mike Piazza in Game 2 of the World Series. Was it an accident, or were his motives malicious?
There is no such uncertainty about Columbia University professor Edward Said, a major-league agitator Read More
It isn’t every candidate who could work Tammy Wynette and Harriet Tubman into the same rhetorical theme, but Sunday after Sunday, in black church after black church, Hillary Rodham Clinton does just that with gusto.
Speaking for herself, Mrs. Clinton keeps Tammy Wynette strictly in the realm of the strongly implied. “And I hope you Read More
“This woman has no principles.”
“I held her in high regard, but she’s not the first person to sell us out.”
“I think she stinks, she lies and that’s it!”
Those are all words recently spoken about Hillary Rodham Clinton. If they came from the mouths of Westchester moms troubled by the carpetbagger Read More
