http://blogs.jta.org/politics/ en rkampeas@jta.org Copyright 2010 2010-02-09T17:33:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/09/1010545/going-meta-with-matt-yglesias Ron Kampeas http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/09/1010545/going-meta-with-matt-yglesias#When:17:33:00Z Matt Yglesias doesn’t like Leon Wieseltier’s evisceration of Andrew Sullivan.  2010-02-09T17:33:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/09/1010536/love-rancor-sullivan-wieseltier Ron Kampeas http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/09/1010536/love-rancor-sullivan-wieseltier#When:14:29:00Z I’ve dispensed plenty of rancor in recent days, and probably have miles to go before I sleep. It’s one of those years. 2010-02-09T14:29:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/08/1010528/stephen-walts-profound-dishonesty Ron Kampeas http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/08/1010528/stephen-walts-profound-dishonesty#When:20:03:00Z Stephen Walt—actually permitting himself to title his post "I told you so"—thinks he’s found something of a smoking gun in Tony Blair’s testimony before a British inquiry into the Iraq War: 2010-02-08T20:03:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/08/1010523/in-which-i-find-something-good-to-say-about-twitter Ron Kampeas http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/08/1010523/in-which-i-find-something-good-to-say-about-twitter#When:17:59:00Z Twitter’s 140 character limit hath bestowed upon me the sobriquet, "Angry Ron," per Ali Abunimah’s tweet regarding my post below: 2010-02-08T17:59:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/08/1010520/on-bronner-goldblog-puts-it Ron Kampeas http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/08/1010520/on-bronner-goldblog-puts-it#When:16:38:00Z Much pithier than I would. 2010-02-08T16:38:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/07/1010492/barnea-us-jewish-leaders-press-bibi-to-block-nif-probe Ami Eden http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/07/1010492/barnea-us-jewish-leaders-press-bibi-to-block-nif-probe#When:06:25:00Z Yediot’s Nahum Barnea, by many accounts Israel’s most respected political columnist, reports that U.S. Jewish communal figures weighed in with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin against a Knesset investiagtion of the New Israel Fund Featured 2010-02-07T06:25:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/04/1010489/is-it-now-whats-said-or-how-its-but-whom-its-said-to Ron Kampeas http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/04/1010489/is-it-now-whats-said-or-how-its-but-whom-its-said-to#When:22:25:00Z JTA’s Ron Kampeas notes that while the New Israel Fund and its defenders feel the organization has been the victim of a smear campaign, it has been unwilling to take a position on whether Israel was smeared by the Goldstone report. Featured 2010-02-04T22:25:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/04/1010488/scewby-jew Ron Kampeas http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/04/1010488/scewby-jew#When:22:04:00Z Last night, Jon Stewart and "Mr. Bagelman" took on Hamas’ anti-Semitic cartoons, and signed off with the ultimate "Those meddling kids!" unmasking: 2010-02-04T22:04:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/04/1010487/tidbits-kirk-dersh-and-lots-in-between Ron Kampeas http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/04/1010487/tidbits-kirk-dersh-and-lots-in-between#When:19:55:00Z Talking Points Memo’s Justin Elliott has an excellent rundown here about how U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) has become the favored candidate of the establishment pro-Israel community to win Barack Obama’s old Senate seat. Featured 2010-02-04T19:55:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/04/1010469/yuli-edelstein-on-j-street-nif-the-crisis-with-the-diaspora Ron Kampeas http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2010/02/04/1010469/yuli-edelstein-on-j-street-nif-the-crisis-with-the-diaspora#When:14:44:01Z Israel’s minister for Diaspora affairs weighs in during trip to United States. Featured 2010-02-04T14:44:01-05:00