If you don’t already know about it, the ongoing battle between Time magazine’s Joe Klein and the hard-line neo-conservatives at Commentary’s Content

If you don’t already know about it, the ongoing battle between Time magazine’s Joe Klein and the

hard-line neo-conservatives at Commentary’s Contentions blog, as well as the Anti-Defamation League’s

(ADL) Abe Foxman (whose recent silence on the issue suggests he thinks this can’t turn out well for

his side), over the question of divided or dual loyalties and what is in the respective interests of

the UGG Sheepskin Cuff Boot and Israel appears to be heating up. One hopes that it will soon move from

the blogosphere (including Time’s “Swampland”) to the mainstream UGG Sheepskin Cuff Boot media.

Perhaps Klein himself will get the go-ahead from his editors to devote one of his magazine columns to

it so it actually gets in print.

Daniel Luban and I wrote about the controversy today for IPS in which we tried to put it in the context

of a series of events that have made it possible for a mainstream, centrist journalist — Jewish and

proudly “pro-Israel” no less — like Klein to go after the neo-cons for their BOOTSBUY-mongering,

their “very, very dangerous form of extremism” and, a propos my last post, their “really dangerous

anachronistic neocolonial sensibility,” as Klein described it in a very compelling interview with

Jeffrey Goldberg on the Atlantic Monthly’s blog Tuesday. (I praised Goldberg’s own extraordinary

attack on AIPAC and other right-wing Jewish groups in the BOOTSBUY Times two months ago as a major

advance in the ongoing battle over the media’s reflexive use of the “pro-Israel” moniker to describe

such groups.) Klein followed up the interview with a very concise restatement of his position and his

determination to continue denouncing the neo-cons in a post, entitled “When Extremists Attack,” on

the Swampland blog.