Remarks I’ll deliver tonight at a conference on the Egyptian Revolution at St. Mark’s Cathedral: I wanted to make a few remarks on the impact that the Egyptian Revolution will have on relations with Israel, and on Israel’s internal political dynamics, along with some thoughts on how this may impact the U.S. role in the […]
Marty “Party” Peretz Severs Ties to TNR, Closes Blog
Recently, the NY Times actually sent a reporter all the way to Israel to document the weirdness of Marty Peretz’s life (Martin Peretz: Not Sorry About Anything). Among other things, the profile revealed that senior editors at The New Republic, which he used to own, are mortally embarrassed by his flaming racism. At the time […]
Blogging the Revolution: Mubarak Out, ‘Egypt is Free,’ What’s Next?
History is made. You are witnessing an event you may rarely see in your lifetime. A nation erupting in freedom. News from Egypt that Omar Suleiman has made a 20-second broadcast to the nation announcing that Hosni Mubarak has resigned as president and passed his powers to the army. No word from the army yet […]
Mubarak’s Game of Chicken
In the aftermath of Mubarak’s extraplanetary speech in which he seemed to be living in a parallel Egyptian universe to the one inhabited by the hundreds of thousands in Tahrir Square and elsewhere in Egypt, the Father of the People was playing a game of chicken with the nation as the prize. There are three […]
