Author Archives: Anonymous

When your job is Israel lobbyist, you have to be more Catholic than the Pope

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Anonymous

Jeffrey Goldberg plays deep tactics: applauds Hillary for forcing realism on Netanyahu so he can stay in power and keep America putting the screws to  Iran on an "existential" threat. "[M]aybe this scolding will help Bibi focus on what’s important." … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israeli Government | 6 Comments

Lord almighty, MSM covers dissing of Biden

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Anonymous

Notice how the mainstream press (Time Magazine) dissed the Israeli government and Bibi. This is new. Change that we can believe in (We hope): Guardian: It doesn’t seem to realise it, but Israel cannot afford to keep on behaving in … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 29 Comments

Make intermarriage, not war

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Anonymous

A reader writes: What I would really like to talk about is intermarriage. I have come to greatly abhor tribalism of all kinds, fueled most of all by this very conflict.  That is why I firmly believe that intermarriage should … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 35 Comments

Every bad thought you have had about Ethan Bronner

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Anonymous

has not been wrong. After seeing the spurious evenhandedness of his comments tonight on Matthews in Jerusalem. And the complacent smile with which he showed himself well satisfied with his performance.

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 8 Comments

Jews of good will need to understand that they no longer get to decide for Palestinians

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Anonymous

Last night’s huge demonstration against the Israeli government’s program of Judaizing East Jerusalem, which took place at Sheikh Jarrah, looks to me like it could become one of those historic symbols that mark a fundamental turning point. It’s not the … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 98 Comments

Political blackmail

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Anonymous

This paragraph from today’s NYT tells you one reason that Howard Berman and others pushed through the resolution on the Armenian genocide: Turkish analysts have expressed concern that newly strained Israeli-Turkish relations would hurt their country’s case among Israel’s allies … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby | 8 Comments

Bronner party hypes the ‘existential threat’

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Anonymous

Ethan Bronner writing on Iran, quotes a top Israeli official: “For the Americans, Iran is a strategic threat. For us, it’s an existential one.” Any journalist who pays any attention knows that Israeli leaders, including Barak and Livni, have repeatedly … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine | 8 Comments

Sunstein augured Obama’s strategy back in ’04

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Anonymous

I suspect chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and regulatory czar Cass Sunstein have become the advisers that Obama follows most closely. For Emanuel, look at the New York Times story today on his almost completed agreement with S.C. Senator Lindsey … Continue reading →

Posted in US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 9 Comments

Rosen–DoD contractor, Kramer’s patron, and dominant male–epitomizes Harvard’s reigning ideology, neoconservatism

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Anonymous

Martin Kramer’s patron at Harvard is Stephen Peter Rosen, a neocon and professor of national security. Rosen also helps run “Long Term Strategy Group”, a consulting company, along with Jacqueline Newmyer. They had a lucrative DOD gig providing bland “strategic” … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons | 39 Comments

In new ads that try to change the subject, Israel reveals racism

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Anonymous

What is so amazing about these three new government-sponsored ads urging ordinary Israelis to go forth and change Israel’s image is that it is precisely when Israel tries to change the subject that it is most overtly racist. The conceit … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 17 Comments

Dershowitz offers blanket defense to his celebrity client for murder anywhere

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Anonymous

Distressed and out-of-kilter post by Dershowitz [on the Dubai assassination], asserting that Israel has the right to kill (any way it pleases, and anywhere it can) people whose acts have demonstrated an intention to harm Israel. The argument is compulsive. … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine | 44 Comments

‘Washington Post’ hires Bush speechwriter

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Anonymous

Disgraceful news. Of a piece with Karl Rove being given the column at Newsweek. This degree of shamelessness in hiring the servants of the corrupt right out of the kitchen, seems new. But it all started with the Times hiring … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Neocons | 2 Comments

Why do they hate us?

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Anonymous

I just clicked on the Malcolm Hoenlein video  celebrating the U.S. Senate’s passage of Iran sanctions.    It takes you to "Jerusalem Online," where you are treated to the racism of responders: Israel should kick all gentiles out.    And … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 6 Comments

Derfner in JPost says only the ‘liberal West’ can save Israel from itself

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Anonymous

Larry Derfner in the Jerusalem Post moves from an analysis of the expat vote issue to the broader theme that only the democratic West, Jewish and not, can save Israel from being a danger to itself and others.  Left to … Continue reading →

Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine | 12 Comments

Defending Bronner’s conflict, the Times has proved too much

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Anonymous

The arguments by Keller, Goldberg, Avishai, etc. in defense of retaining Ethan Bronner at his post in spite of the conspicuous conflict of interest, show how hard it is for us to judge Israel by the standard we apply to … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 25 Comments

culture of violence

Posted on December 26, 2009 by Anonymous

Isabel Kershner’s tragic piece in the NYT from inside Israel (and totally inside the Israeli mindset), "Tough Military Stance Stirs Little Debate in Israel," offering the rationale for the horrifying Dahiya doctrine, prompts this response from a regular correspondent: Broadly … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Middle East | 4 Comments

eyes wide shut

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Anonymous

2009The Year in [12] Pictures, from the New York Times/International Herald Tribune. You might be particularly interested in the first of the pictures: "January."  What does it tell Palestinians in Gaza?  I’m sure it was awful for those in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza | 43 Comments

Rush Limbaugh seems to be doing the lobby’s work

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Anonymous

Rush Limbaugh calls for "massive bombing raids," and "war" with Iran. Recall the flattering RL profile by Israeli-American Zev Chafets in the New York Times Magazine. Limbaugh is marching ahead of the AIPAC congressional resolutions on Iran, and query: what … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Iran, Israel Lobby | 7 Comments

Neoliberals replaces neocons in proffering hawkish consensus to a POTUS

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Anonymous

Add this, by Hendrik Hertzberg in The New Yorker, to the neoliberal consensus that has rallied to embrace Obama’s war speech for the peace prize. Hertzberg thinks it is the most thoughtful statement by Barack Obama of any kind, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Neocons, US Politics, War on Terror | 24 Comments

Re Obama: Resigned

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Anonymous

He went to Oslo to accept the peace prize and gave his hosts a standard Anglo-American speech justifying humanitarian wars. Where have we heard this sort of magic before? Tony Blair. One of the most revealing gestures of Obama’s presidency … Continue reading →

Posted in US Politics | 14 Comments

‘intense, methodical, rigorous, earnest’

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Anonymous

Adjectives applied to Obama’s approach to enlarging the war by Peter Baker, the New York Times neoconservative newsroom minder, in today’s lead story. The escalation is getting the same kind of praise from Kristol, Kagan, Brooks, Packer, and Peretz, with … Continue reading →

Posted in Neocons, US Politics, War on Terror | 23 Comments

Report from Goucher: the campus as microcosm of the conflict

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Anonymous

The following piece concerning the recent censorship at Goucher College is by a sophomore at the school who does not wish to reveal her name because of family and professional concerns. I believe we can learn a lot from viewing … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine | 49 Comments

Smashing, punching, writing– it’s the amazing Friedman

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Anonymous

Another sentence from the Tom Friedman column of November 29: "Have no doubt: we punched a fist into the Arab/Muslim world after 9/11, partly to send a message of deterrence, but primarily to destroy two tyrannical regimes." But "have no … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Iraq | 32 Comments

‘J Street’ supporter: I’m proud that we’ve used the word Palestine

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Anonymous

I’m a J street supporter, and I’m glad you are trying to keep them honest from the left flank.  However, I don’t think this latest post — "J Street seems to avoid the term Palestinian"– is on target.  In the … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 38 Comments

Scenes from an occupation: Seized at an internet cafe at midnight

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Anonymous

Andrea Whitmore of Citizens for Justice in the Middle East passes along a note she received today from a friend in the occupied village of Jayyous, Palestine. "The man is in his 20s, a college student, responsible and hard working. … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 8 Comments