From the monthly archives:

December 2008

Press advisory for Israel apologists!

by Philip Weiss31 December 2008

Leon Hadar: After reading [Benny] Morris today ["Why Israel Feels Threatened," a headline that will go down in infamy --Weiss] I recalled the advice that the late Israeli PM Levi Eshkol (who headed the Israeli government in 1967) had given…

The late campaign fraud

by Philip Weiss31 December 2008

Last night on Hardball, Pat Buchanan said that from a foreign-policy standpoint, the presidential election was about whether the neoconservatives were right or not, in their response to 9/11, two wars and an unending war on terror. The country said…

In their own words

by Philip Weiss31 December 2008

An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert talking to Ha’aretz: “Gaza is not undergoing a humanitarian crisis. We’re constantly supplying it with food and medications, and there’s no need for a humanitarian cease-fire.”

It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fabulous)

by Philip Weiss31 December 2008

Just got up, just heard Steve Inskeep of Morning Edition on NPR angrily asking the Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor (whom Horowitz dispatched on this site last night) what the goals were, when it was going to be over, aren’t you…

‘Huffpo’ misrepresents Pal protest as another Obama hoop story

by Philip Weiss31 December 2008

Weird. Here’s an article on Huffpo all about the Palestine protesters in Honolulu with the amazing Margaret Brown, 66, in it– “We just gave them a blank check to oppress the Palestinians, and this is the result,” she said. Margaret,…

Just because there’s one president at a time

by Philip Weiss30 December 2008

doesn’t mean we can’t start protesting the next one photo by Kent Nishimura of Bloomberg News

Israel is getting clobbered in p.r.

by Philip Weiss30 December 2008

I have great news tonight: Gaza is exciting the world’s sympathy. Consider the picture above. We never could have imagined such a thing just weeks ago. Consider the heartrending headline and lead of an AP story prominent on Yahoo’s main…

In their own words

by Philip Weiss30 December 2008

Sallai Meridor, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, talking to reporters: In a conference call Tuesday with reporters, Sallai Meridor said criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza as disproportionate is like “telling a lady who had to push a rapist…

‘Tibetan insurgents bear the responsibility for Chinese crackdown’

by Philip Weiss30 December 2008

Can you imagine the Times saying that earlier this year when China crushed Tibet? No, you can’t. The first paragraph of the Times editorial on Gaza (who needs to read more): Israel must defend itself. And Hamas must bear responsibility…

To explain Hamas rockets, Haaretz describes ethnic cleansing of Majdl (Ashkelon) in 1953!!

by Philip Weiss30 December 2008

Skyredoubt translated portions of a piece in Hebrew by Benny Tziper, in Haaretz, only Haaretz, and posted it on his flickr site. [...]A nice man was there at the entrance to the museum, an invalid of IDF from the Yom…

Reuters: ‘Jewish lobby’ accounts for Obama’s silence re Gaza

by Philip Weiss30 December 2008

The discourse is changing under our feet. Good piece from Jonathan Wright in Cairo. To wit: “Obama’s position is very precarious. The Jewish lobby warned against his election, so he has chosen to remain silent (on Gaza),” added Hilal Khashan,…

Steve Walt on the reports of a truce

by Philip Weiss30 December 2008

Last summer an Iraq veteran stood up in the balcony during John McCain’s speech at the Republican convention with a sign “You Can’t Win an Occupation.” Steve Walt sent me an email that contained the same truth this afternoon, and…

Are you a Lincoln or a Douglas–take the test now

by Philip Weiss30 December 2008

Spencer Ackerman has a good point, that this is a moment of testing for progressives in the face of the “shtetl police.” He says progressive Jews– I don’t care so much about Jews–Everyone in the U.S. faces the shtetl police:…

‘Liberty’ … ‘Dignity’

by Philip Weiss30 December 2008

This morning I said Israel attacked the “Dignity,” based on Free Gaza’s use of that word. Now Free Gaza is reporting that Israeli boats came out of the darkness and rammed Dignity, severely damaging it. The cable shows are going…

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