Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

I couldn’t believe the puffery in today’s NY Times’ Republicans Hail Colleague Who Fought Bush on Ports (the article is nowhere to be found on the Times website nor in Google News so I don’t have a link; by the way, I’ve never seen such a thing happen before at Nytimes.com. UPDATE: there is [...]

The New York Times notes that Republicans are breaking with the president on the Dubai ports deal and appear intent on scuttling it no matter what the outcome of the 45-day security review:
Xenophobia? What xenophobia? (cartoon: Gary Markstein/Cagle.com)
Representative Jerry Lewis, the California Republican who is chairman of the Appropriations Committee, said he would [...]

I’ve read some wacky conspiracy theories suggested by “progressive” opponents of the Dubai ports deal, but I think what I read at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Stakeholder blog last night takes the cake. The post titled Oy, linked to a New York Post (that’s Rupert Murdoch’s shmatte) story, QAEDA CLAIM: WE ‘INFILTRATED’ [...]

Dick Meyer, editorial director of CBSNews.com, has written a terrific article debunking the major myths that fuel the opposition to the Dubai ports deal. In reading this, I’ve learned that even I have been wrong in characterizing aspects of my argument. But let’s start with those myths:
A nefarious multinational corporation secretly controlled by [...]

The NY Times notes today that U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and Robert Mendendez are polishing their anti-Arab credentials in a rather arcane local issue that has broad international ramifications:
Port of New York: no Arabs need apply (photo: Worldshipny.com)
[The senators] added their voices to objections about the Bush administration’s approval of a deal [...]

The Jerusalem Post is the media sponsor of the Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards. I’ve written in the past about the overload (90-95%) of right-wing pro-Israel blogs nominated in JIBA’s political categories. I’ve also written critically of the Jerusalem Post’s involvement in the program. Today, I’d like to ask why the Jerusalem [...]