…On the political front, our usual beat, I imagine you all saw Wendy Sherman, Under Secretary of State threaten Israel and not for the first time with a knife in the back if we don’t kowtow to the wishes of her master, the Imam in the Oval Office.

Sherman, remember, is by academic training a social worker, a profession not known for its tough mindedness, and so it is no wonder that when she presided in 1994 over the negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear ambitions under President Clinton, that turned out to a fiasco of incompetence.

But never mind. She has in her heart what Robespierre called the proper virtu, proper philosophical temperament. In his day, during the Terror in the French Revolution, a politician without the proper virtu was sent to the guillotine by him. Sherman of course does not have that power, but she remains in charge of the nuclear negotiations with Iran over its nuclear ambitions. Heaven help us.

Anyway, she addressed a gathering of so-called Reform Jews who I know from personal experience haven’t got a clue what it really means to be a Jew and thus whose views of Israel are commonly all mixed up; mixed up with what’s fashionable inside the Beltway, where political philosophy is dominated by the old line White Anglo Saxon Protestant aristocracy…