Underbelly

I've made my way through Max Blumenethal's Goliath : Life and Loathing in Greater Israel , with profit though I wouldn't say ex...

I don't think I've ever done this before: watched the same movie on two nights in the same week.  Not quite successive: last night ...

Catch of the day: Daniel Lazare's LRB deconstruction of Shlomo Sand's deconstruction of the history of the Jewish " People ...

Followup notes on Bernard Lewis and his Notes on a Century; Reflections of Middle East Scholar . For a man of 96, and one who has placed h...

My friend David went out to Viet Nam late in the war, not long before the great peacemaker brought us all together again.    He was a const...

I don't know about you but I'll drop everything to read a good Mossad tictoc, like this one in GQ on what the mag is  willing to ca...

I've been watching some DVDs on the archaeology of Israel and environs, by a teacher with solid professional credentials, both in the f...

Reading Shlomo Sand's   The Invention of the Jewish People,   I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that it created such a rumpus when ...

Surely the funniest thing in today's NYT comes form an unlikely source--it's David Brooks on Israel. And I'm not being snide ...

Uri Avneri, writing in the London Review of Books , observes a sea change in Israeli politics: they used to be in it for power, says Avneri;...

Fascinating piece up at FP on the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel and how, well, underwhelmed (in default of a more negative word) ...

The Guardian translates this bit from a Swiss newspaper: "Israel imports Iranian oil on a large scale even though contacts with Iran ...

This is interesting in itself, but there's a meta story worth noticing. That is: you get a more diverse view of Israeli politics inside...

Faithful readers will know I spent a month last fall trekking over archaeological sites in Israel and Jordan . Apparently I was not the f...

More on The Bible Unearthed : you can get a hint of what this book is about without ever opening the cover without ever cracking the cover b...

Here’s the book I wish I had read before I went to look at archaeological sites in Israel/Jordan last fall: The Bible Unearthed , by Israel ...

Not being a regular reader of the New York Post, I don’t think I had ever heard of Ralph Peters until I stumbled onto this intriguing review...