Now at TPM Cafe!
Big thanks to Josh Marshall and his colleagues at Talking Points Memo, who recently invited me to join the roster of contributors to their excellent discussion forum, TPM Cafe. My first contribution there is this one.
It should seem familiar to devoted JWN readers.... That's because the lovely deal I have with the TPM folks is that they can pick up any of my posts from here that they want and republish them here.
I am particularly happy about this because TPM Cafe is probably the US blogosphere's premier spot for discussion of the big public policy issues facing the country. Of which, Arab-Israeli peacemaking is undoubtedly one.
I told Josh-- or maybe this was my esteemed friend M.J. Rosenberg, who is also a TMP cafe contributor-- that I have admired TPM ever since that time, in December 2002, when my engineer son Tarek told me "Mom, you've got to start a blog!", and I said "A what?" ... And he got on his laptop and showed me his favorite, which was TPM.
Josh has been a trailblazer in so many ways, including by developing TPM into an impressive, multi-media space that is both a (benign) empire and a vibrant, policy-discussing community. And throughout the process he has challenged the 'conventional wisdom' on all the topics that I care about, both at home and abroad. Including, by having bloggers like MJ, Phil Weiss, Adam Horowitz, Bernard Avishai, and me on the Cafe's roster he is now significantly pushing forward the national discussion on Palestinian- and Arab-Israeli issues.
... Anyway, only a small proportion of my JWN posts will probably ever end up on the Cafe. So keep on reading here, too!
Such a church lady.
I'll file this post with the one where you thanked Walid Jumblatt for that "lovely Christmas card."