David P. Goldman

“Both sides,” wrote my colleague R.R. Reno in “Bad Dreams,” his “On the Square” entry yesterday, “recognize that the future outlines of a Palestinian state will roughly follow the 1967 boundaries, with a few square miles (perhaps fewer) in East Jerusalem as the (admittedly very) wild card.” … Continue Reading »

Kurt Cardinal Koch is the new Vatican head of ecumenical relations, responsible among other things for relations with the Jews. The Swiss cleric replaces Walter Cardinal Kasper, whom I praised for his frankness and sincerity on this site earlier this year.The acid test issue for Jewish-Christian . . . . Continue Reading »

Ramesh Ponnuru, one of the smartest conservative commentators, finds some of the arguments for a second round of quantitative easing “persuasive.” A 2% inflation rate wouldn’t be so bad if the Fed could achieve it, he observes today at the NRO site.But read what Bernanke actually . . . . Continue Reading »

The Iraq “surge” required Iranian forbearance in order to keep US casualty rates down and make the Bush administration look good. Republican salvation history portrays the “surge” as the Bush administration’s greatest accomplishment. The trouble is that Iran now has the . . . . Continue Reading »

The German word Schrott means “junk;” the serendipitously-named Fr. Raymond A. Schroth S.J., offers junk arguments for  the dissolution of the State of Israel. Writing Nov. 15 on the website of America magazine, he proposes the dissolution of the Jewish State in favor of a single . . . . Continue Reading »

(Crossposted from blog.atimes.net)The World Bank president got it exactly right:HONG KONG (MarketWatch) –- The president of the World Bank said in a newspaper editorial Monday that the Group of 20 leading economies should consider adopting a global reserve currency based on gold as part of . . . . Continue Reading »

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Rumors keep surfacing on the fringe of American politics that President Obama is a secret Muslim, including a recent video that has gone viral on Youtube. It involves an Israeli author, Avi Lipkin, who claims that his wife (who supposedly monitors Arab-language broadcasts professionally) heard a . . . . Continue Reading »

The German Genius By Peter Watson Harpercollins, 964 pages, $35 What went wrong in Germany? How did the country with the world’s best universities produce the worst political regime in human history? It’s a question many have asked. Peter Watson, however, wants to recall what was right in . . . . Continue Reading »

“Catholic Church: Christ nullified God’s promises to the Jews,” reads the headline on the Israel Today website. That is not quite true: at the just-concluded Synod of Middle East Bishops, a cleric from the tiny group of Melkite Greeks, Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros, made such a statement on behalf of the Melkites, not the Catholic Church… . Continue Reading »