Susie Kneedler writes: Keith Olbermann and Newsweek’s Richard Wolffe seem to have discovered that they can (barely) discuss Israel through a left-wing lens by (rightly) linking Cheney to Netanyahu and then discussing Obama’s efforts to broker Israeli-Syria negotiations. Key insights…
The international community is now arguing over Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Were they an aberration? Are not the Israelis a moral fighting force? Etc. Etc. The following report confirms that the atrocities were not an aberration; they sprang from a…
The American Conservative has gone webby. I mean, they were on the web before, of course, but they just got redesigned and it feels webby. Also, there’s a podcast on there of me and Scott McConnell talking. McConnell wouldn’t put…
We tend to focus on the most dramatic aspects of Israel’s efforts to force Palestinians out of Jerusalem and “judaize” the city, such as the massive home demolitions in Silwan or the plans for Israeli settlements in E-1. But the…
Yes I just violated my anti-ethnocentric Yiddish policy in that headline. Apologies to everyone. Rosten: rigmarole. Akiva Eldar in Haaretz says that Obama will be basing his Israel/Palestine policy on the report by the 10 realist luminaries who say that…
From the Jerusalem Post: “In addition to the problems and difficulties arising from the global economic crisis, 21 percent of [90] local exporters report that they are facing problems in selling Israeli goods because of an anti-Israel boycott, mainly from…
From the JTA report on the Zionist Organization of America’s lunch on Capitol Hill last week. Best moments belong to Shelley Berkley. Emphasis mine: Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) joked that she always brings [ZOA President] Mort Klein her ZOA membership…
The second day of the One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens? conference had a much more ominous tone than Day 1. It focused on the long road to building a one state solution – from the…