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Jeffrey Blankfort

Would you buy a used car from this man?

by Philip Weiss on July 29, 2009 · 4 comments

Shas is an important part of Netanyahu’s coalition, representing the religious nationalist right. The spiritual leader of Shas is Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, pictured in his colorful outfit.

From Ynet’s report on Rabbi Yosef’s weekly sermon Saturday night, in which he said that Obama is turning Israelis into "slaves" by attempting to impose a settlement freeze in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Then offered some prophetic solutions:

"’You can’t build here, you can’t build there’ – it’s as if we were their slaves," the rabbi protested. "We are being ruled by slaves," he said," adding that, "Our messiah will come and throw them out."

Rabbi Ovadia also bemoaned the current reality in the Temple Mount, saying: "Where is our temple? There are Arabs there!" He then promised that the messiah "will throw all these evil ones out of here."

Thanks to Jeff Blankfort, who writes: "Another story that will not be ‘fit to print.’ Look at the uniform on this nutcase. What values do American share with him?"

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Yesterday Alan Dershowitz–whose picture I’d run here every day if I had my druthers, I think it’s good for traffic– had a piece in the Jerusalem Post saying

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posts I won’t be reading, dept.

by Philip Weiss28 July 2009

"Kristallnacht in the Grocery Aisle"– at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Watch site, apparently based on an episode at a Trader Joe’s. How do they come up with all these "watch" sites. Who pays for ‘em? (h/t to Jeff Blankfort)

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single loyalty: man jumps from American Jewish Committee to Israel’s National Security Council

by Philip Weiss3 July 2009

Ynet meets Dr. Eran Lerman, who took office Thursday as deputy chief of Israel’s National Security Council. For the last nine years, Dr. Lerman has served as the director of the American Jewish Committee’s Middle East office. The AJC is…

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What did Freud say about the Israel lobby? (State Department spokesman ‘jokes’ about being canned for talking about Dennis Ross)

by Philip Weiss16 June 2009

Jeff Blankfort writes: “Being a State Department or White House press spokesperson is no easy job; and this guy at State, Ian Kelly, says he’s worried about getting fired or transfered if he says too much re Dennis Ross. A…

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Blankfort: Bibi bamboozled Bambi

by Philip Weiss19 May 2009

Here is Jeff Blankfort’s shrewd analysis of what he calls Bambi-Bibi: Obama’s statement on freezing the settlements was weak in the extreme, and by failing to mention the historic US opposition to settlements and Israel’s ignoring of the US position,…

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Gen. Dayton says 2-state solution has 2 year sell-by date

by Philip Weiss11 May 2009

Report by Robert Dreyfuss in the Nation, on an appearance at Washington Institute for Near East Policy last week of Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, who is training Palestinian troops in the West Bank and who said that two-state solution is…

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The Israel lobby is losing power

by Philip Weiss10 May 2009

MJ Rosenberg has a typically smart piece on TPM arguing that Obama is actually going to bring Netanyahu to his knees, that the lobby doesn’t have the ability to buck a popular American president. As for the lobby, it will…

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Michael Oren is about to become single loyalty. Before he was just dual

by Philip Weiss6 May 2009

Jeff Blankfort makes an interesting point about dual loyalty accusations. Michael Oren, born in the US and a dual citizen, is about to become Israel’s ambassador to the US which will require him to give up his US citizenship, the…

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Michael Oren is about to become single loyalty. Before he was just dual

by Philip Weiss6 May 2009

Jeff Blankfort makes an interesting point about dual loyalty accusations. Michael Oren, born in the US and a dual citizen, is about to become Israel’s ambassador to the US which will require him to give up his US citizenship, the…

the lobby’s achievement: landgrab

by Philip Weiss28 April 2009

One of my favorite themes is that Palestinian statelessness is an American Jewish achievement–the lobby’s support for the settlement program throughout the ’90s. Jeff Blankfort reports on a review of Dan Fleshler’s book on the Israel lobby, in The Jewish…

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Will Obama get entrapped by the Masada complex?

by Philip Weiss28 April 2009

Jeff Blankfort writes: This column in the Washington Post seems to be the most convincing piece yet that Israel will attack Iran on its schedule unless Obama publicly says he has told Israel not to. Should Israel launch an attack…

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Will Obama get entrapped by the Masada complex?

by Philip Weiss28 April 2009

Jeff Blankfort writes: This column in the Washington Post seems to be the most convincing piece yet that Israel will attack Iran on its schedule unless Obama publicly says he has told Israel not to. Should Israel launch an attack…

Hold on– the U.N. did not create Israel

by Philip Weiss11 April 2009

Jim Harb writes: Phil, the United Nations did not create Israel. I’ve noticed that you mention this from time to time, but it’s simply, historically, and factually inaccurate. This is not only a misstatement of historical fact, it is an…

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