Author Archives: Chas Freeman

Freeman: Israel is useless to US power projection

The other day Stephen Maher published a piece on Electronic Intifada saying that American thirst for hegemony in the region, and not the Israel lobby, is the prime motivator of US policy in Israel and Palestine. What follows is an … Continue reading

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Chas Freeman: This time apartheid has western complicity

Impolitic as it is to mention this, in rejecting the analogy with apartheid in South Africa, the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen is not only denying realities on the ground in Palestine but also the principal and most awkward difference between … Continue reading

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