Thursday, April 16, 2009

Hope for Israel

The greatest hope for Israel's survival might well be Rahm Emanuel, though I agree with Matt's commenter Glenn when he says, about Emanuel's insistence that "In the next four years there is going to be a permanent status arrangement between Israel and the Palestinians on the basis of two states for two peoples, and it doesn’t matter to us at all who is prime minister", that "The lack of profanity leads me to question whether that’s an actual Emanuel quote". Still, that Emanuel says he's willing to put pressure on Israel--something that will be made easier by his being a solid Zionist who served in the IDF--does bode well.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.