Scoundrel time

The battle is joined. The other side is gearing up. Here is a fabulous post by MJ Rosenberg saying that the Weekly Standard and other usual suspects want to hold McCarthy-like hearings about Chas Freeman. Meantime, something I somewhat-apprehended last night in my post on Howard Berman:  the Israel Project is launching a propaganda war on Hamas and offering as experts Brad Sherman, David "Biometrics" Makovsky, Walid Phares, etc. Remember what Robert Dreyfuss wrote in the Nation the other day, a "thunderous coordinated" assault is underway. Neoconservatism's gotterdammerung. We're going to win. Obama is a secret sharer.
 Note that Brad Sherman is a liberal congressman. Jonathan Chait is great on domestic issues, Rosenberg says, and neoconservative on Israel. This must be understood: this is a battle over Jewish identity too. Let the historical minority freedom we enjoy here be extended to other minorities, especially ones victimized by apartheid in Palestine.