Author Archives: Bruce Wolman

About Bruce Wolman

Bruce Wolman is a citizen journalist who has lived in Norway and the Washington area.

Let’s take on the claim that Arab states embrace Israel to counter Iran

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Bruce Wolman

Greenwald referred to this article on his blog this morning, but I thought the original was such a clear statement I bring it to your attention. From Rami Khouri in Lebanon’s Daily Star, "Why Chuckles Greeted Hillary’s Gulf Tour," responding … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, US Policy in the Middle East | 8 Comments

Quotas

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Bruce Wolman

Not bad: One of the Americans is not Jewish. He is sent to Syria and Lebanon. Haaretz: A high-level U.S. delegation will visit Israel next week for strategic talks on Iran and a number of other issues. In contrast to … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 5 Comments

More apartheid justice

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Bruce Wolman

It may very well be that these settler teens were picked up with insufficient evidence. But, under similar circumstances would we see Arab youths freed from custody until investigations were complete? Hardly! Arab youths could just as easily be held … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Settlers/Colonists | 9 Comments

JPost publishes mendacious garbage about human-rights org’s finances

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Bruce Wolman

Sarah Honig is the darling of Jerusalem Post readers, if the comments and ratings to her op-eds are any indication. Her latest, Another Tack: Nessie and why Obama can’t, says that "Israeli-Arab peace" is a Loch Ness monster, i.e., a fantasy. … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine | 22 Comments

the excommunicators

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Bruce Wolman

Today in Haaretz: "[Elie] Wiesel blasted Judge Richard Goldstone, saying his report on the Israeli offensive in Gaza was ‘a crime against the Jewish people.’" A few days ago in Haaretz: "Professor Alan Dershowitz slammed jurist Richard Goldstone, the architect … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaza, US Politics | 45 Comments

Most Palestinians were killed by drones

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Bruce Wolman

One point I found utterly amazing about the Independent article was that most of the Palestinians were killed by drones. This isn’t even nervous soldiers fearing for their lives in a combat zone. These are calculated killings by soldiers sitting … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaza | 16 Comments

Obama puts pressure on… Palestinians!

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Bruce Wolman

More evidence (in Haaretz: "Mitchell to Abbas: No more excuses, renew Mideast talks") that Obama and Mitchell have no problem squeezing the Palestinians to make up for their own political problems and weakness. Having taken on Netanyahu and lost, they … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 17 Comments

No one is accountable in maiming of Tristan Anderson

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Bruce Wolman

I can hear the US consulate protest from here. Imagine if the same happened in Tehran. JPost: The Justice Ministry declared Sunday that no indictments will be filed against police in the case of [Tristan Anderson] a US activist who … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 115 Comments

This casts us in the role of the enabler, forever

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Bruce Wolman

Haaretz says that Turkey is warning Israel that it must mull a future without Turkey as an ally, following the disrespectful treatment of the Turkish ambassador and the horrors of the Gaza war. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine | 71 Comments

Dershowitz’s latest celebrity client

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Bruce Wolman

It appears the man who defended O.J. Simpson will go to any length for his current celebrity client, the State of Israel. From Haaretz: "Dershowitz calls Goldstone a traitor to the Jewish people." In his book, The Best Defense, Dershowitz gave … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaza, Israel Lobby | 73 Comments

Obama capitulates to the Israeli side

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Bruce Wolman

Haaretz: His [Mitchell's] main message will be the need to apply pressure, especially from the Arab states, on the Palestinian Authority to resume negotiations with Israel. At last week’s meeting of the Quartet, Mitchell told the delegates there was no … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 78 Comments

I challenged Haaretz writers on the organ-harvesting story last summer

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

Last summer Aftonbladet, a Swedish newspaper, printed allegations that Israeli soldiers had taken organs from Palestinian youths they had killed, putting the tissue on the transplant market. An Israeli official called the story anti-Semitic "hate porn," and Haaretz denounced it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 26 Comments

US has no problem with Israel pumping money into… hands of West Bank extremists

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

Haaretz, today: The cabinet approved on Sunday the controversial plan – which will pump millions of shekels into West Bank settlements – after Netanyahu decided to review the list of communities for which funds were earmarked… Defense Minister Ehud Barak, … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 25 Comments

Post-post-racial (Jewish identity of state of Israel is ‘very important’ to Obama administration)

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

How can you keep kidding yourself that this administration is going to do anything to improve the Israel/Palestine situation? This administration’s position is actually two times worse than the Clinton parameters (which did not mention Jewish identity and did not … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 68 Comments

conspiracy theories are like good wine

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

So are the Israelis finally admitting that the story is true 55 years later? Haaretz: The Lavon affair – also known locally as esek habish, "the rotten business" – was a plan to discredit Egypt’s government, then headed by Gamal … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Politics | 16 Comments

Wolman: Wright mucks up Gaza

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

The New Yorker sent Lawrence Wright, its Pulitzer Prize winning staff writer, over to Israel and Gaza to report on "What really happened during the Israeli attacks?" I’m not sure what the reason was for the question mark, unless it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza | 166 Comments

Killing the message

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

I bet you don’t see this on the evening news here, not even on MSNBC. From Haaretz: Settlers Force Palestinians out of East Jerusalem Home: "This land is Israel. We are in Israel. God gave this land to the Jews. … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel/Palestine | 6 Comments

Killing the message

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

On his own blog, Tony Karon titled the excerpt from his Time.com article: "Mideast Failure Looms for Obama."  Time couldn’t be quite so pessimistic. It went with: "A Stalemate Looms in Obama’s Mideast Peace Effort."    And the Subject line … Continue reading →

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Nobel prize was an effort to box Obama in on Iran

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

Bruce Wolman reads the Norwegian press, in Norwegian:

Posted in Iran, US Politics | 10 Comments

ABMs trumped Oslo in Norwegian decision re Nobel Prize

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

While Weiss may be convinced that the Nobel Peace Prize award to President Obama "is all about Israel/Palestine…. an effort by the northern Europeans to give Obama political capital to put pressure on Israel," I have to report that this … Continue reading →

Posted in US Politics | 9 Comments

Israeli/American/Democrat/Zionist seeking to buy Al-Jazeera

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

Haim Saban’s bid. Mondoweiss couldn’t make this up. What Zionist control of the media?

Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel Lobby | 28 Comments

California dreamin’

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

What was Arianna smoking over there in Israel? From Arianna Huffington’s Israel diary: "Yet, in this land of miracles, we can still imagine the emergence of the kind of leadership that can transform both old hatreds and the facts on … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine | 10 Comments

Can Civil Disobedience Work if the Media Stays Away?

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

Bruce Wolman writes: What if Palestinians turned to non-violent protest and none of the media showed up to cover their actions? President Obama in his Cairo speech insisted the “Palestinians must abandon violence.” He exhorted them to imitate the methods…
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Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine | 13 Comments

The battle over what a ‘settlement freeze’ means

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

Bruce Wolman writes: When Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington last month, Israeli media reported he was quite shocked at the reception he received in his closed-door meetings with Congress. It appeared the Obama administration had lined up fellow Democrats to…
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Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Settlers/Colonists, US Politics | 55 Comments

Germany mimics Obama Administration on settlements

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Bruce Wolman

Bruce Wolman writes from Norway: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier demanded an end to all settlement building in East Jerusalem and the West Bank in an interview with the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, published on Saturday, and then widely distributed…
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Posted in Israel/Palestine | 10 Comments