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Goldblog's Meyer Lansky Connection
October 9, 2010Here is an excellent theory about my visit to Cuba, from a prominent antisemite named Jeffrey Gates (h/t Harry’s Place):Goldberg reports he was “summoned” to Havana to discuss Castro’s fears of a global nuclear war. After conceding in the interview that the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis “wasn’t worth it,” Castro turned to a theme of [...]
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On Historical Memory: Is Germany the Exception?
October 8, 2010Kevin Drum asks, in reference to my questions about historical revisionism in the South (questions prompted by Haley Barbour) if the Germans are unique in the way in which they have confronted their sins:For what it’s worth, I’d say Germany is the exception, not the rule, here. Most countries with sins in their past have [...]
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More on Andrew Sullivan, Rick Sanchez, the Jewish Lobby, Etc.
October 8, 2010Andrew Sullivan, about whom I have mainly not been blogging lately, in part to keep my sanity and in part because, really, how much time can a blogger devote to fighting with other bloggers (answer: a lot!), e-mailed me earlier today, while I was traveling, to tell me that I obviously missed, or at least [...]
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'Civil War History Shuts Out African-Americans'
October 7, 2010Goldblog reader Elizabeth Christian writes, in reference to Haley Barbour’s whitewashing of history: I’m a native of Atlanta and a lifelong liberal. My dad was born in Birmingham. His mother’s family owned a plantation in South Carolina before the Civil War. I don’t know how many people they owned. They owned people is the important [...]
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Answering Andrew Sullivan's Question About Rick Sanchez
October 7, 2010In a post entitled “The Power of the Pro-Israel Lobby” that mainly concerns this piece by Hitch (about which more later), Andrew, taking note of AIPAC’s legislative power, asks, “So why the fuss over Rick Sanchez?” The answer — or at least one of many compelling answers — is that what Rick Sanchez said was [...]
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The Existential Threat to the Entire World
October 7, 2010Jim Fallows, writer of that smash hit from the ’70s, “You’re So Vain, You Probably Think the Threat of Nuclear Obliteration is About You,” pushes back on Daniel Gordis’s argument that Israel faces a uniquely dire situation should Iran gain possession of nuclear weapons:(T)his is not a new, hypothetical, and Israeli-specific problem but a decades-old [...]
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A Tragic Misfire by a Translation App
October 7, 2010From the Goldblog inbox:please sir jeffrey goldberg you glimpsed cuban president fidel I castrate and preguntele because he does not let enter the cuban ferrymen so that they can enter to see its families is an injustice which the cuba government hase that does not let enter the ferrymen is necessary to denounce the injustice [...]
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How an Iranian Bomb Would Alter Israeli Existence
October 7, 2010A fascinating and depressing piece by Daniel Gordis. Read the whole thing, but here’s one important point: Many people are put off by the Israeli national affect, which they take to be a mix of arrogance and bravado. This is a misperception of an attitude that is born, in truth, out of collective relief: We [...]
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Slavery Nostalgia
October 6, 2010I’m glad to see that Ta-Nehisi also has a devoted corps of meshuggeners hanging on his every word. This is from a group called The Sons of Confederate Veterans (very old sons, obviously). It was written in response to a Ta-Nehisi post praising Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia for belatedly recognizing — as Haley Barbour [...]
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Why Do African-Americans Forgive So Easily? (UPDATED)
October 6, 2010Last week, while on stage with Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi, at the Atlantic-sponsored Washington Ideas Forum, I kept thinking this one thought: Black people are very forgiving people. Over and over again, this notion came to mind as I listened to Barbour spin himself away from a simple question I was asking, a [...]
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The Most Dangerous Places in the World
October 5, 2010Goldblog has long-argued that airport lobbies and pre-security areas are the most dangerous places in America: You are never as vulnerable to a terrorist attack as you are when you are waiting in the tightly-wound line at a TSA checkpoint. Now comes word from Europe that Pakistani-based terrorists may be targeting the entrances to various [...]
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Shutting the Cuban Door on Our Own Faces
October 5, 2010Julia Sweig, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Latin America expert, and also my special aquarium friend, just published a bracing op-ed about American paralysis re: a rapidly-changing Cuba: No one can say for sure what kind of model is emerging in Cuba, and political reform remains distant. But a hybrid of market, state, local and [...]
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A Good Argument Against the Cuba Embargo
October 5, 2010From a USA Today editorial:If U.S. leaders were to pause and reflect as Fidel Castro has, they, too, would recognize that times have changed. Cuba is no longer the security threat that it was during the Cold War; it’s just another failed communist state. The biggest threat now is the potential for waves of economically [...]
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Please Try Harder, You Anti-Semitic and Anti-Muslim Crazy People
October 5, 2010From the overflowing Goldblog in-box:Dude, you go on my fucking nerves you arrogant warmongering Zionist.I think the expression is “get on my fucking nerves,” not “go on my fucking nerves.” As I’ve said repeatedly, the thing that would really scare me is an anti-Semite with decent grammar. The anti-Muslim bigots — I must still be [...]
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Advice for J Street
October 5, 2010From Natasha Mozgovaya, the Ha’aretz correspondent in Washington:J Street needs to make a clear decision – if they want to be truly inclusive, as they claim to be – they shouldn’t be afraid to be so, despite the price they may have to pay. By continuing their current modus operandi – trying to dodge controversy [...]