Word: podhoretzes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Jews argue that Israel is being unfairly judged by a double standard, bitterly denounced for actions that other nations feel they have an unquestioned right to take. Norman Podhoretz, editor of the monthly Commentary, says that he considers President Reagan's peace plan to be "on the whole a good one" and goes on to say, "I wish Begin had not rejected it out of hand." Nonetheless, in a fiery article, provocatively titled "J' Accuse," in the current issue of his magazine, Podhoretz charges that to many of its critics "only Israel of all the states...
Among those critics, writes Podhoretz, "a number of American Jews have been adding their own special note to the whining chorus of anti-Israel columnists, State Department Arabists and corporate sycophants of Saudi Arabia." Podhoretz charges that "criticisms of Israel that are informed by a double standard ... deserve to be called anti-Semitic even when they are mouthed by Jews or, for that matter, Israelis...
Sonnenfeldt chaired the session, which included Administration officials and about a dozen outside experts. Among those invited: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and two of his predecessors, Harold Brown and Donald Rumsfeld; Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to President Ford; and Norman Podhoretz, a neoconservative writer and Administration critic. "It's an effort to break out and listen, to avoid being caught in my cocoon," says Shultz...
...like amphetamine candy, addictive. One gobbles up the testimony in Edie, culled by Jean Stein and George Plimpton from interviews with some 250 people who crossed paths or swords with the poor little rich girl. An awful fascination obtains to the book's elegant gossip. See Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary and hitman of the double-domed Right, dance wickedly on the grave of one of Edie's ancestors. Recall the night that Rock Star Jim Morrison paid sexual obeisance to Jimi Hendrix on the stage of Steve Paul's nightclub, the Scene. Watch Warhol shrug...
...Jews," and "The poor of America are wretches without dignity"). His book will never convince anyone who doesn't already agree with him. Despite his rather arrogant dismissal of the neoconservative theory. Shorris consents to a quick and impressionistic history of the social changes which he says pushed Podhoretz and Co. from the Left into their current positions as "court Jews" for the Reagan Administration...