Monthly Archives:

January 31 2009

51 How can Dennis Ross be effective after chairing Israeli institute that called for ‘bringing Ahmadinejad to justice’?

43 Why is Hillary’s right hand at State investing $50-100,000 in Israel bonds?

50 ‘Informal, vague, unspoken–and immense’ (the Israel lobby)

13 Dual loyalty issue said to damage Ross bid to honcho Iran portfolio

40 Sign of the times

12 Erdogan warns Obama: ‘We expect justice from now on’

10 ‘J Street’ finds a wedge issue, AIPAC loses influence

9 Somebody with a ‘sense of victimization, siege mentality, blind patriotism, belligerence, self-righteousness, dehumanization’ needs help

11 Internet is driving the ‘sea change’ in American response to Israel/Palestine

1 Would ‘Washington Post’ writer David Ignatius put his arm on President Obama during a debate?

7 Many wish that Obama had chosen ‘Al-Jazeera’ over ‘Al Arabiya’

January 30 2009

50 Secret database shows Israeli government to be active partner in settlement landgrab

3 Iraq/Gaza… Ignatius/Peres

8 Chomsky ally differs sharply with him over Israel lobby

2 In their own words

13 Some are cynical about the 2-state solution. Why?

25 Debating Davos: Preening, monstrosity, or punctilio?

24 The lobby is losing – Rep. Rothman can’t find co-sponsors for his anti-UNRWA attack

48 One American’s awakening: ‘I was 7 when they punched my grandfather in the face, and none of the men in my family dared say anything’

37 One journalist’s awakening

12 Dear Abe Foxman, ‘The knock on the door is coming, it’s time to go!’

36 Gaza’s threat to American Jewish belief

3 Translating Israeli leaders

3 Who lost Turkey?

12 At a leftwing NY bookstore, a very pan-global vibe for Gaza

42 Democracy lesson: As soon as you agree with me that Hamas is your enemy, we will stop bombing you

10 80 US academics said to endorse boycott, defying ‘intimidation’ by lobby

January 29 2009

20 Israel’s ally: Turkish Prime Minister walks out on Shimon Peres at Davos

50 How the Israel lobby flexed its muscle to destroy New Jersey freeholder candidacy of a Lebanese-American who had expressed sympathy for Palestinians

13 ‘Peace Now’ should resign from membership in neoconservative Conference

36 AC accuses me of deluded optimism in my belief in the ‘sea change’

26 The journey of one congressman who finally spoke out for Palestine

13 Carter describes ‘political suicide’ of criticizing Israel

10 Israel manhandles Europeans at border. Kerfuffle. Double standard

21 Israel’s image in retreat (Report: Israelis shot children holding white flags)

January 28 2009

30 Carter says U.S. Presidential envoys have been ‘professional lobbyists for Israel’

30 things are tough all over. really

18 Terry Gross interviewed Times’ Ethan Bronner yesterday…

6 A moving song about Gaza

15 World writers urge American writers to admit, Israel is South Africa Redux

17 Hark, Obama: ‘For the last 30 years the most important issue of my life has been peace in the holy land’ (Jimmy Carter)

50 ‘Palestine is the door to the Muslim world’

38 I guess 60 congressmen for Gaza is a beachhead

15 Let the harassment of ’60 Minutes’ begin!

7 i heart gaza

24 Is there any difference between Mark Green and Marty Peretz on Israel/Palestine?

33 Fleshler: Once again, Israel misled its American Jewish supporters about its aims

18 Carter says he could throw a grenade over the ‘separation wall’ in most places

30 In their own words

4 Are Team Israel and Team Obama set for first confrontation?

10 Mohammad of Vancouver: What does it mean when states acknowledge the use of torture?

10 The banality of weasel

January 27 2009

50 ’19-year-old children hold guns pointed at the heads of 5-year-old children’

5 Afghan gov’t worker vows to be suicide bomber

8 IRA=Hamas analogy wins endorsement of Abunimah, Hawking, & Levy

43 Ali Abunimah accuses flagship progressives of ignoring Palestine

22 ‘We are farmers. We are not resistance’ And 29 were killed. (Journalism lives again)

21 An old man in Brighton Beach, or al-Qaeda warrior–it’s an accident of birth

13 Jon Stewart continues to spend political capital

8 Contiguous ambiguous

21 From Warsaw to Gaza: International Holocaust Memorial Day 2009

1 Who is the ‘tirelessly unsuccessful Mideast negotiator’?

10 I’ve got you… under my skin

13 Obama embraces his Muslim roots, 7 months after saying he was formed by Jews

43 The skyscraper and the ant, a modern fable

4 Rabbi Shai Gluskin on the rabbinical statement on Gaza – ‘We are learning. We aren’t going away.’

48 Anti-Zionism gets its nose under the tent of the mainstream media

January 26 2009

37 Gaza hospitals overwhelmed by care needs of children shot in the head

9 US academic boycott movement gets started while Israeli profs try to keep a war criminal off campus

15 2 theories to explain why BBC refused to run humanitarian appeal for Gaza’s children

16 For people who believe Israel stopped occupying Gaza in 2005

49 ‘Rabbis Speak Out’ on Gaza stop speaking out on Gaza (with an update)

18 Egad–George Mitchell said to skip Gaza on first Middle East trip!

27 Arab world’s response to Gaza a ‘total disgrace’–Finkelstein in Bahrain

10 Your tax dollars at work

23 Gushing over Bob Simon–but did he let Livni off the hook?

12 ‘Israeli army rabbis sound racist’–Haaretz

11 Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb, Obama

4 ‘This is William Kristol’s last column’

50 ’60 Minutes’ gives Israel 3 options: ethnic cleansing, apartheid, or democracy

10 ‘Youtube is lessening anti-Jewish feeling in the Muslim world’

9 How the Australian papers defer to Israel

38 A little more about ’60 Minutes’ stunning piece

3 English celebrities are up in arms, American celebs are armless

January 25 2009

34 Gaza slaughter demeans its defenders

27 end of the 2-state solution has good smart people using their imagination!

33 And they ask, where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

45 WSJ scoops the Times: Hamas is ‘Israel’s creation’

12 All you need to know about the history of Israel/Palestine

37 Jack Ross watches a documentary on neocons and understands his calling

27 Update on the site

2 Will students in the U.S. start taking over college buildings?

33 I could love Israel

6 Sunday funnies

11 Finkelstein to speak in Bahrain on Israeli aims in Gaza

17 Blankfort on the ‘Sophie’s Choice’ controversy

9 Bronner, if you’re going to put your cards on the table, put your cards on the table

6 Amnesty International says Israeli soldiers used Gaza civilians as ‘human shields’

January 24 2009

26 M.J. Rosenberg on the ‘serious career risks’ in criticizing Israel

4 Bromwich: Gitmo backlash on MSNBC

9 Mohammad: ‘Obama tacitly approves Gaza with missile strikes in Pakistan’

37 I should have questioned that ‘Sophie’s Choice’ report

8 ‘The Times’ continues to provide aid and comfort to neocons. Why?

4 navel-gazing while Rome burns

17 Two Gaza narratives

33 From Gaza City to Kansas City: Andrea’s friend tells her she’s an anti-Semite

10 The wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing neoconservatism of liberal Establishment Jews

19 My entitlement issues

January 23 2009

33 Mission accomplished: Times article undermines the one-state solution

6 ‘Financial Times’ warns Obama of worldwide jihad against Israel if Palestinian affliction doesn’t end

5 Haaretz says that Gaza assault was planned months ago

25 Sophie’s Choice, Gaza style

2 Beyond chutzpah

12 Of course you pay a price for criticizing Israel in this country

2 further response to Ezra Klein on the career benefits of criticizing Israel

8 ‘NGO Monitor’ has endless foes in the human-rights marketplace

3 it could happen here

1 An agonizing Gaza story with an American angle, left untouched by our media

37 Finally! – A rabbinical statement on Gaza

12 How the Israel lobby shot itself in the foot on Dennis Ross’s elevation

1 Giving Obama room to maneuver, ‘Washington Post’ editor slams Israeli government’s ‘dodges’

6 Austin, Texas: ‘the movement is growing’

9 Obama parks peace-processor Ross in the portico

10 Memo to Foxman

29 Oh we had larks when we was takin on the Israel lobby!!

6 This is the first movie star I’ve heard sticking his neck out

7 Barcelona says, ‘No holocaust memorial amid Palestinian holocaust’

January 22 2009

10 Resigned to hope!

3 ‘Al-Jazeera’ reporter Mike Hanna recalls passion of Edward R. Murrow

9 Foxman likens Palestinians to Nazi–and Mitchell to Switzerland!

16 Obama signals evenhandedness

4 How AIPAC builds its network among aspiring pols

7 Gaza has depressed and radicalized Sari Nusseibeh

4 ‘Forbes’ Misspells Minuscule

2 Tale of a family split between Israel and Gaza, and now dismembered

27 Why Mohammad wore his Star of David to Norman Finkelstein’s lecture

6 2 Israel jokes show that time is up for Israel lobby

14 Transnational Arab jihadist who helped foster Al Qaida was influenced by… Zionists

8 Gaza images remind ‘The Times’ Kimmelman of the Holocaust

4 Having achieved nothing but slaughter and elevating Hamas, the Israeli political backlash now begins

8 CAIR alleges civilian executions in Gaza

7 ‘American Zionist extremists are headed the way of the Klan’

9 ‘The Times’ awards its once-every-4-years slot for the one-state argument to a weak advocate

9 Informal poll: 2-to-1, talk to Hamas

20 Lather, rinse, repeat

23 Several important writers declare that Israel is committing ‘suicide’

9 The ‘New York Review of Books’ failure on Gaza

5 Translating ‘Hasbara’ in the NYT (this is a funny post)

7 Do Blankfort’s views scorch your eyeballs?

4 Livni said to fear prosecution!

2 Even in Berkeley

0 Arab journalism is the big winner of Gaza

1 Gaza rage in Turkey

January 21 2009

5 Questions abound about the NYT’s Mexican stakeholder

9 Groundswell

2 What are the effects of white phosphorus on Israeli hearts and minds, let alone Arab ones?

10 Jews who shut down consulate over Gaza invoke freedom riders of civil rights movement

22 Compassion for Dershowitz and his assistant

1 Take a look at

9 Dershowitz’s floor at Harvard Law School is evacuated following delivery of suspicious white powder

5 Advice for Mitchell: Palestinians need support, Israel needs to be stopped

7 Obama’s next race speech?

8 Foxman says we don’t want ‘fairness’ in the Middle East

1 Israel won’t release the names and pictures of battalion commanders who so distinguished themselves lately

4 I’d rather be a lamppost in England than a member of Congress

11 ‘To be a Jewish artist means to avoid depicting the horrors inflicted on Palestine’

22 How long can MSM hold out against the savage poetry of citizen journalists?

13 Mohammad on Obama’s iconic reality

8 Neocons will be talking up the greatness of the Iraq war forever, huddled in caves

7 Has email replaced the telephone call in business/life?

January 20 2009

13 I was wrong about Obama’s speech, and Jack Ross is right

8 The liberating effect of Obama’s inauguration will inevitably resonate to the Middle East

1 Our long national neoconservative is over

9 Oracular Obama spends a bit of political capital on the post-tribal future

12 Gaza was ‘a high-tech military pogrom’

16 Hitting the ground rerunning, Obama issues disappointing language on Israel/Palestine

1 ‘NYT’ hints that Israel lobby’s stranglehold is lessening

1 get thee behind me, neocon

4 Impose a solution

4 For ruined Palestinians, Hamas leaps up in prestige

3 Scenes from the ‘new Nakba’

31 Mohammad answers a challenge about his use of the word ‘genocide’ for Gaza

19 Let us now commemorate the Tragedy of George the Second

9 In their own words

5 Has a Jewish congressman ever even mildly criticized Israel?

7 The Emperor’s Clothes

0 Lullaby for Israeli pilots–Numu numu

January 19 2009

38 How will the war in Gaza be remembered?

6 Mohammad’s 5 ways to help Palestinians post Gaza

3 Colin Powell celebrates Obama’s Muslim roots

15 Walt: US refusal to second-guess Israel has led it to make many bad strategic decisions

January 18 2009

50 How it feels to be inside an insurgent political movement

46 After pregnant pause, Bono celebrates ‘Palestinian dream’ at Lincoln Memorial event for Obama

32 The ‘Times’ attacks this blog, and finally offers El-Khodary without filters to its readers

8 ‘He did not rally to the banner of race. He did not sink himself in his community’

13 The civil war between western Jews over Zionism

13 ‘The only road left’

6 UN official who was in Rwanda and Balkans says Gaza is most disturbing

25 The case of the Israel lobby and the good Norwegian doctor

5 ‘Lesser figure than Moyers would be blacklisted…’

4 Avnery: ‘billions of people have now seen us as a blood-dripping monster’

6 The sea change, continued: ‘Hertz’ wants out of Israel solidarity promotion in England

10 The Palestinians, in Israeli officials’ own words

28 American reporters at Livni presser seem more critical than American public

7 Israel has detained 700 Israelis

January 17 2009

13 Q. Israeli belligerence in ’67 began over what? (A. Blockade)

11 Gaza’s toll in Israel: ‘the damaged souls of our sons and daughters’

7 Israel lobbyists say, Don’t talk about the Israel lobby!

6 Reality check: the Arab silence

6 Obama’s Cheney

18 Avishai: Gaza is Israel’s war against the idea of democracy

11 ‘The Palestinian doctor spoke in Hebrew–except when he called to God’

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4 ‘I do not call my family, they don’t call me’ (The Jewish crisis of Gaza)

2 At Yivo, ‘Iraq: A Jewish Reckoning’ or, ‘Gaza: A Jewish Reckoning’?

3 6 of 7 killed were civilians, says Palestinian human-rights group

11 AWOL on Gaza, liberal American Jewish tradition will never be the same

January 16 2009

25 ‘The Israeli government has ruthlessly and cynically exploited the continuing guilt among gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as a justification for the murder of Palestinians’

29 Israel finally comes face to face with Gaza

1 Daniel Pipes discovers the Turkish Islamist peril

3 On a donkey cart in Gaza, a boy shakes his fist at the jets

4 How Elliott Abrams ignored Hamas’s overtures

10 The American center wakes up (Moyers says the world reels at ‘Dante’s inferno’)

8 Reporter calls Livni a ‘terrorist’ at National Press Club

31 The boycott begins to bite

3 When the Israeli government loved Hamas

4 ‘American Conservative’ builds new coalition of realists and lefties

9 ‘Times’ stringer El-Khodary’s searing reports from Gaza appear on ‘Al-Jazeera,’ not in the ‘Times’

1 Obama listens to Power. Who does Power listen to?

3 Neocons nakedly redefine themselves as ‘supporters of the American-Israel alliance’

5 ‘Why do they hate us?’

1 Israel’s ‘best friend in Muslim world’ urges its suspension from U.N.

15 West Side Highway is battleground in the Jewish civil war

7 Mahmoud Darwish: ‘The invader fears his memories…’

24 Jeffrey Goldberg’s Jewish paranoia

6 Klug: ‘My rabbis did not teach me to bombard a trapped, impoverished, defenseless people’

4 The ‘Times’ has an Orwell moment on Gazan slaughter

4 Important difference between Gaza and Fallujah

16 In their own words

2 ‘Haaretz’ urges Obama to ignore the ‘Israeli patriots’ of Washington, D.C.

January 15 2009

10 after police cut the locks at Israeli consulate in San Francisco: ‘We’ll be back!!’

0 ‘There’s actually a huge growing number of Jewish youth that are sickened by Israel…’

6 Israel to 2-State Solution: Drop Dead!

10 American Jews start petition against ‘carnage’

6 ‘I was raised by militant Zionists’ (breaking up the Jewish family)

15 Oh to be young and unconscious– as Gaza bleeds

3 In moderate Egypt and Jordan, they vow resistance

10 AIPAC should invite Walt and Mearsheimer to a debate at its spring policy conference

14 Take a moment of silence today in your busy

14 egging on the slaughter from lawn chairs in Israel

45 boy cries wolf

16 Neoconservatives have Obama for dinner

12 Blind support for Israel is putting our children at risk from Islamic terrorism

9 Zionism jailbreak

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11 Actually, Iran wants little to do with Hamas

8 The moderate Muslims who get lionized for their views on Israel

7 Israel lobby makes ‘castrated cattle’ of our Congress

6 i need a better moniker than ‘desk warrior,’ maybe thinktank warrior or toy soldiers or neocon grunts

8 Turkish P.M. ‘curses’ his former crush

8 Chomsky calls Israel ‘bloodstained monster’

5 desk warriors

January 14 2009

25 The diplomatic backlash begins

50 Friedman and Goldberg play ‘good cop/bad cop’ in the ‘New York Times’

8 These times demand the ‘Times’!

7 Censorship: Al-Jazeera’s exclusive coverage is available in Israel, limited here

16 after I fix Zionism, I’m going to take on marriage

2 That hoax last week was actually a religious vision. OK

1 the 2-state solution died, and then we loved it

1 ‘Ehud Olmert’s phone number’

2 Barack, don’t be like Ike

January 13 2009

31 Another horrifying legacy of Iraq war: Now Israel gets to do war crimes

8 Influential voice weighs in: Cordesman says assault is ‘misguided’

13 ‘Israel’s image in the world has been destroyed’

25 Adam Shapiro, who will speak tonight in NY, is subject of extremist death threat

10 Avigdor Lieberman talks about using nukes on Gaza

5 Scenes from the ‘new Nakba’

12 Brits have no trouble talking about elephant in the room

10 Israeli soldiers reportedly shot woman waving white flag

37 In the unhealed Jewish heart, Arabs became Nazis

2 MSM gets bolshy

6 ‘In the name of humanity!’ Israeli atrocities are pummeled on British television

1 ‘Everything we’ve seen so far will seem child’s play’ –leading Israeli newspaper

0 Tony Kushner: It is immensely important for Jews of conscience not to remain silent under pressure from the Jewish community

6 Clinton says Palestinian injustice is feeding ‘alienation and extremism’ across region

1 Destroying Gaza to save it

1 In her prepared answers, Hillary was just More of the Same

15 Drop everything: Max Blumenthal exposes the Jewish crazies in New York

6 How many U.S. politicians have denounced the ‘shame on the Jewish people’ of Gaza?

16 In their own words

12 ‘Killing children is a matter of politics’

15 Where is Hillary on cease-fire?

January 12 2009

5 An antidote to the US media

5 Scenes from the ‘new Nakba’

8 In their own words

5 Hamas terms for ‘long-term truce’ are similar to UN Human Rights Council’s

4 Israeli settler invited to Inaugural

17 Scenes from the ‘new Nakba’

7 tail wags Security Council

0 Dennis Ross could be ‘Elliott Abrams of Obama administration’

0 Jon Stewart’s ‘soul-crushing’ rap on Palestinians becomes line in the sand

3 250 Palestinian children killed, says British Foreign Minister

19 Post Muslim (Mohammad’s confession)

7 The American sea-change is finally happening

21 Only democracy in the Middle East

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27 What I would have done

4 In ’82, Sen. Adlai Stevenson’s career was broken for opposing wicked settlements

7 Independent: ‘How Israel gets away with murder’

3 it’s just so complicated…

0 Internet etiquette: bloggers on same publication criticize one another

17 ‘Al-Jazeera English’ is censored in US

15 2 biggest enemies in U.S. politics come together, laughing, over Gaza

2 Dennis Ross’s ‘messy and difficult’ peace process produced zilch for you know who

8 Human Rights Watch says burning phosphorus used in civilian areas

8 Blankfort: Why did Israel break truce on our Election Night?

4 Pardon my career

3 AP scants numbers at pro-Palestinian demo

January 11 2009

18 Sans-Zionism

14 Chomsky to speak on Gaza

6 IHT’s Roger Cohen says Obama’s team shouldn’t be all-Jewish

3 Israel now excuses war crime as a ‘malfunction’

3 Memo to neocons: Democrats won the last election

4 trivializing murder at pro-Israel demonstration

7 McKinney says Gaza slaughter is ‘reaching deep into U.S. heartland’

1 Jabotinskyite site publishes racist, anti-Muslim attack on ‘J Street’

14 I believe Hamas uses civilians as human shields

4 Israeli Palestinian party that seeks democracy for all citizens risks disqualification

2 Another appeal to Obama not to name Dennis Ross envoy

19 At NY demonstration, grief, rage, and impotence

January 10 2009

43 Gaza slaughter is ennobling Hamas

50 My wife is post-Zionist. Jack Ross isn’t

7 Even a broken watch is right once a day

12 Another American veteran with a jaundiced view of the special relationship

15 ‘Obama– don’t be a slave to AIPAC,’ Israeli veteran pleads

36 Iraq veteran: We never responded in such a brutal, vengeful and dishonorable manner

16 Shocker! Congress does not reflect people’s opposition to Gaza assault

13 monolith is over

27 I’m gonna wave my freak flag high (why I say I’m an ‘Anti-Zionist,’ not a ‘Post-Zionist’)

10 Blacklist 2009: Jewish professional fears criticizing Israel because it could hurt her business

9 In the ‘Wall Street Journal’! (‘Israel Is Committing War Crimes’)

25 Buchanan brings up the Nakba on MSNBC

January 9 2009

46 Slater’s thought experiment

17 Jack Ross takes on Michael Walzer: just wars or nice wars?

3 Perle denies neocons pushed for Iraq war, or something like that

0 ‘Will Israel provide the evidence that these schools were Hamas assets?’

21 Did US Congress express support for democracy giving equality to only one religion?

10 The bullies of solidarity (an email battle over an Israel rally at Princeton)

6 IDF officers said to admit no fire came from UN school Israel shelled, killing dozens

4 the many inefficiencies of the doorstop Times (including overpaid writers)

3 Looks like We have been hoaxed re British Board of Deputies cancelling rally

11 What would Uncle Toby say about ‘just war’ theory?

5 the best hair in the peace process industry

7 Gaza is coming of age for post-Zionist bloggers, average age 26!

12 Jewish resistance fighters also iced collaborators

6 Steve Walt answers the smears

6 When’s this Chicago show comin to Broadway??

13 Gaza has brought superb Arab journalists into American homes (and Subarus) as never before

12 ‘endless stream of Palestinians willing to die is a symptom of their condition’ –Karon

21 British Jewish leadership cancels rally, speaks of ‘besieged’ people of Gaza!

8 Israelis use new silent gun to shoot Palestinian demonstrators in West Bank

10 Bob Simon: Israel rejects a democracy that would be one-man, one-vote

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22 CBS’s Bob Simon: 2-state solution is over

January 8 2009

19 The left has to accept the Israel lobby idea or we’ll get nowhere

6 Ethnocentrism, Inc: Jewish leader in ‘Forward’ calls for beheading ‘J Street”s Ben-Ami for noble Gaza stand

7 spot the American flag in this picture…

2 … it’s easier in this picture

14 the Irgun/Hamas moral equivalence argument

3 When Palestinians are getting slaughtered, Reform Jews and Gov. Paterson side with Settler movement

37 Slater: NYT ‘epiphany’

12 Lebanon rocket attack was inevitable…

9 conspiracy theory or just conspiracy

4 ‘House and Senate compete to be more [slavishly] pro-Israel’

2 New media hope

7 4 small children left with their mothers’ corpses for 4 days 4 small children left with their mothers’ corpses for 4 days

5 NYT: ‘Nakba’ made Gaza

2 We’ve taken the bridge

4 Dual loyalty alert: Israeli Embassy believed to be coordinating U.S. Jewish leaders’ attacks on it

7 Your Israel lobby at work

1 Time Magazine: ‘Why Israel Can’t Win’

3 Voice in the wilderness, Dennis Kucinich

11 Hamas is executing suspected collaborators

1 never would have intermarried if I’d known about this

1 NYT’s Cohen ‘shamed’ by Israel’s actions

1 Pastor Warren’s foreign policy ideas are equally disturbing (and unmentioned)

5 Al Jazeera covers the attacks on northern Israel

2 Bloomberg shoe’d

2 dark night of the soul for another American Jew’s identity

0 Not in our name!

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January 7 2009

25 Eliot Engel: ‘I don’t know what disproportionate means’

16 Antizionism on the march: Oakland teachers call for binational secular state

6 Significance of ‘Joe the Plumber’ Middle East assignment

14 Significance of Roland Burris’s (inevitable) elevation

47 My joking about Arab names is racist

23 Bromwich on Friedman

25 Answering the ‘are you now or have you ever been a Zionist’ question

13 Headsup, Marty Peretz! Another young anguished Jewish blogger breaks silence on ‘brutal’ attack

4 Joe the Plumber going to Israel

17 Dispossession, Dispossession, Dialogue, Dispossession

34 (Oy) Obama chooses 3 Jews as Middle East envoys

7 Memo to Obama: Sarkozy is upstaging US leaders as a moral actor

5 Zionists use the violence to revive ’48 model: ethnic cleansing

8 Note on this blog’s progress in the blogosphere

6 Bush discriminates in favor of Jews in Holocaust memorial appointments

2 On ’60 Minutes’– sorry, make that ‘Al-Jazeera’– Netanyahu’s brave nephew quotes Goering as the role model of ‘unjust’ warriors

11 Mothers dont let your children grow up to be A-rabs

8 ‘But Dad, why did respectable people say nothing when it was happening?’

11 What’s Israel hiding?

January 6 2009

15 Daniel Levy says, if we occupied Canada for 40 years, they’d be firing rockets at us

8 Israel wouldn’t bomb terrorists in Jewish neighborhoods

6 ‘If an Israeli woman had lost five daughters in a Palestinian attack, would Washington Post balance that image?’

5 60 members of one family said to have been killed

5 Israel’s amen corner, in the White House?

10 ethnocentricism of Jewish leadership

25 Brave Norwegian doctor: ‘we shouldn’t call ourselves decent if we don’t act to stop this’

33 CNN’s brave Sanchez says Israel broke truce in November

15 Slaughter makes the ‘war on terror’ go round

3 Remember the Nasrallah posters in Lebanon ’06?

8 Tiananmen-tank-like showdown

16 Nowhere to run (350 Gazans gathered at school hit by airstrike)

3 2 journalists arrested by Israeli police for reporting on ground offensive

3 ‘National Journal’ expert: Gaza ought to break ‘taboo’ on discussing Israel lobby

5 Gaza! Extra! Read all about it! (on the internet that is)

14 Burning car rams synagogue in France

13 Jon Stewart said to be bolshy, and b**lsy, re Gaza last night

3 ‘Times’ doubts Israel’s claim that civilian targets housed rockets

3 Wallace Shawn, truly: Gaza endangers the future of the Jews

7 ‘New Yorker”s silence is further evidence that establishment opinion is paralyzed by Gaza

January 5 2009

44 12 children killed in Gaza Monday. Or 20

19 When 3 is larger than 550

15 U.S. Army War College says Hamas has been ‘villainized’

14 My problem with Jewish elite status: Howard Fineman says that McCain served in ‘army’

20 a beautiful thing might finally be happening (debate)

20 White phosphorus, ‘terror weapon’

6 Scheuer: Israel needs suicide bombers to commit Obama to Israel’s religious war

7 Can you imagine ‘The New Republic’ running articles written by Dana Perino?

9 Zeitgeist alert: no fanatics on ‘Foreign Policy’ blog

3 binational effort in Israel launched to document harm to civilians

5 Organized Jewish community seems crouched, fearful over p.r. disaster

12 Maybe it’s time for ‘J Street’ to get creative and reach outside a blindered community

21 When will ‘Rabbis for Human Rights’ speak out for human rights in Gaza?

6 More independent Jews speak out against slaughter (1 o’clock press conference, Union Square)

17 ‘It is crucial that Jews speak out and denounce Israel’s actions’

11 Israel using Facebook robot to counter int’l protest

5 The Arab is… restrained

5 Gaza is the exile of the neocons

2 More children killed as war on Gaza continues

2 will Obama too prove to be a ‘eunuch-ruler’?

10 Steve Walt becomes a blogger at… ‘Foreign Policy’!

16 Legacy of Indian wars stops many guilty Americans from condemning Israel

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January 4 2009

8 Only eight foreign journalists allowed to cover the war in Gaza

11 ‘the last silly gasp of Jewish nationalism in America’

8 Madoff burned suburban N.Y. Carpenters Union too

5 Obama’s silence begins to seem aloof/bought given the urgency of the American street

21 Once more into the breech, Michael Oren!

6 genocide?

20 A new Nakba

6 2 more Warsaw Ghetto analogies, from the left

9 The latest from the ‘premier Jewish media outlet for progressive free-thinkers’

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9 Civil war? ‘Jerusalem Post’ attacks lox-and-bagel Jews for opposing Gaza slaughter

5 ‘J Street’ refuses to cave to the forces of reaction

4 In their own words, revisted

11 Ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza?

7 In their own words

29 The best American analogy for Hamas is militant blacks in U.S. ghettoes in 70s

8 Jack Ross also wants Dan Radosh to take on his neocon father over Israel

16 The American Establishment realizes Israel is wrong but is afraid to say so

50 Lebanon 2006 redux

10 Daniel Radosh should fight with his father Ron Radosh about ‘J Street’ now

10 Anti-Zionist Jews are issuing a clarion call to leftleaning gentiles– Speak out with us!

4 ‘J Street’ is the salient! Another attack from the ‘liberals’

21 It’s not all bad news

January 3 2009

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4 ‘Times’ prints the word ‘massacre.’ Twice!

5 Mearsheimer: Like Bush and Clinton before him, Obama will fail at creating a viable Palestinian state

17 AIPAC likens Hamas to Osama bin Laden

23 ‘Times’ is newspaper of record for… Israel?

15 More evidence that Israel has lost the p.r. battle

5 In their own words (threat of radical Islam)

7 Israel’s existential threat from Israel

1 bread and water shortages

8 Destroying Gaza as a compensation for failure against Hizbollah

12 How can we blame them if they blame the Jews?

13 Hamas had offered a continuation of truce

24 New Year’s Resolution

6 Bosnia! Kosovo! Darfur!

4 Times’s Bronner describes ‘unspeakable suffering’ of Israeli assault

3 ‘Gaza is in our hearts’

1 the global expectations for Nicholas Kristof

5 UN count of civilians killed in Gaza excluded all dead men

22 Amazing Brit Tzedek rabbi says half of Gaza victims are civilians and anticipates the breakup of the Jewish ‘family’

37 Official Israeli video footage on youtube depicts an apparent atrocity

5 Silverstein says Reform’s top rabbi is ‘redbaiting’ J Street

16 Obama’s W. Bush is Non-W

January 2 2009

25 Standing up for ‘J Street’

29 Zionist ‘left’ can’t condemn the slaughter

20 This time it’s personal

15 IDF admits exaggerating threat of Gaza rockets

21 CNN reporter breaks taboo in sharp criticism of Israel

26 In their own words (Dershowitz)

11 How long can this Orthodoxy last? Both ‘Times’ op-eds are by Israelis, ‘Washington Post’ provides CPR to neocons

13 most moral military in the world

1 Horowitz beards Dershowitz

3 ‘Diaspora Jews more critical of Israel than ever’ (only in Haaretz, of course)

3 Israel’s undemocratic response to war protesters

3 The Jewish family fights publicly over Gaza

11 the yawning gap between Democratic leadership and Obama’s progressive base

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4 another back-of-the-envelope description of Zionism

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6 Vermont Jew breaks personal taboo and decries Gaza as Warsaw Ghetto (Gaza effect in U.S. is still subterranean but Huge)

3 The death of writing

15 I like the China/Tibet analogy

15 On Gaza, MSM blows out the moral lights, while the internet dins in our ears

2 Obambiguity

11 another back-of-the-envelope description of Zionism

January 1 2009

20 2 more back-of-the-envelope descriptions of Zionism

41 My back-of-the-envelope description of Zionism

25 Was I establishing a Jewish quota for ‘Meet the Press’?

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