Soccer Dad

Begin vs. biden

Martin Peretz has been doing all he can to defend Sen. Obama this campaign. So recently he took issue with a report that Sen. Biden once threatened Israel's aid in a confrontation with then PM Menachem Begin. Peretz takes the approach that if it had happened he would have heard about it and he didn't hear about it so it must not have happened.

Yisrael Medad bothered to track down the relevant contemporaneous accounts, leaving John Podhoretz to comment:

There's this thing called Nexis. It's been around for three decades. Give it a shot. Who knows what you might learn.