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Neocons

delegit

by Philip Weiss23 February 2010

Yesterday the Forward sent out an advertisers’ video, a new hasbara campaign aimed at the delegitimation of Israel on campus. Meantime, a neoconservative anti-Goldstone outfit announced a conference in New York aimed at stopping the delegitimizing of "democratic nations such as.. Israel."  It is very important to understand what people mean by "delegitimization" of Israel. [...]

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Is conservative nod to Ron Paul an indication that Republicans will divide on The issue?

by Philip Weiss21 February 2010

Note the Conservative Political Action Conference’s straw poll giving Texas Rep Ron Paul a clear lead for the group’s presidential endorsement over Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin.
And note Mike Huckabee ripping the straw poll, and the  group for being libertarian.
Huckabee has spent a lot of time in Israel. Ron Paul is one of the [...]

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New axis of evil: London, Madrid, SFO

by Philip Weiss20 February 2010

Move over, David Frum; the Reut Institute is on the case. Montreal Gazette:

The Reut Institute said the international effort, dominated by left-wing activists and non-governmental organizations in London, Toronto, Brussels, Madrid and the San Francisco-Oakland area, seeks to "turn Israel into a pariah state by undermining its moral legitimacy and ultimately aspiring towards eliminating the [...]

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Liberal internationalist/neocon is looking for one good Muslim

by Philip Weiss20 February 2010

Paul Berman has a new book coming out, The Flight of the Intellectuals, in which he attempts to define the "moderate Muslim"–who coincidentally of course is pro-Israel. So Ayan Hirsi Ali who’s suggested that we bomb Iran is lauded as his moderate Muslim interlocutor. An early supporter of the war on terror and the invasion [...]

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Beware of neocons invoking Arab public opinion

by Philip Weiss18 February 2010

The other day Hillary Clinton lost face among ministers of Islamic countries she was meeting in Doha, because the U.S. is doing nothing to restrain Israel. This hasn’t stopped neocons from citing Arab opinion in trying to turn up international pressure on their villain in the Middle East, Iran.
Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign [...]

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Shocker: ‘Tablet’ turns out to be neoconservative

by Philip Weiss17 February 2010

Tablet, the chic new Jewish online magazine with wind-blown tresses, has attacked Trita Parsi and Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett as the "Iran lobby." Thereby revealing its neoconservative core identity. Daniel Luban skewers Tablet along with all the other hip young Jewish venues, and then blames the funders. I am entirely in Luban’s camp here; [...]

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‘Washington Post’ hires Bush speechwriter

by Anonymous17 February 2010

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 Safire.
[Weiss: I've always said the neocons are on their way out in Washington. Boy am [...]

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Why do they hate us?

by Anonymous17 February 2010

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 there is a link to Jewish emigration promoter Nefesh B’Nefesh advertising its mega events at, for example, the Holiday Inn [...]

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Klein calls on his friend Wieseltier to apologize

by Philip Weiss11 February 2010

Joe Klein calls on Leon Wieseltier to apologize to Andrew Sullivan for smearing him as an anti-Semite; read between the lines, and Klein is saying that Wieseltier, whom he says he loves, has gone off the rails. Klein also offers an honest riff on Jewish identity. Echoing Sullivan, he says that neoconservatives must be considered [...]

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David Frum considers his next sock puppet

by Scott McConnell10 February 2010

"Interesting — no applause for sanctions on Iran. No applause for Palin’s speculations that democracies keep the peace." –David Frum, YouTube blogging Sarah Palin’s speech to the Tea Party convention in Tennessee.
Who better than David Frum to discern whether a Middle American political movement can be captured by the neocons and used to expand [...]

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‘Forward’ editor Eisner seems to want to silence ‘Breaking the Silence’

by Philip Weiss5 February 2010

One of my goals these days is to support the New Israel Fund in its fight to promote democracy and human rights in Israel. I do so because even though it tends to overlook apartheid conditions in the West Bank, NIF has done great things: it has supported the demonstrations at Sheikh Jarrah against ethnic [...]

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Neocon junket: ‘live penetration raids in Arab territory’

by Philip Weiss31 January 2010

Below is an ad that was in Haaretz lately for the Ultimate Mission to Israel. The trip is a red-meat propaganda trip of a retro-masculine character–"live exhibition of penetration raids in Arab territory"– pitched to American professionals, accountants, doctors, lawyers. The fascination is not just the disgusting events–"observe a trial of Hamas terrorists in an [...]

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Neocon likens Israel to ‘police states’

by Philip Weiss29 January 2010

A lot to be savored in neocon Jamie Kirchick piece’s in Haaretz on Jared Malsin, the reporter for Ma’an who was deported by Israel last week. There is Kirchick’s frank acknowledgement that young leftwing American Jews are ardently turning against Israel. Malsin represents a movement, and the Z’s can’t use the self-hating label on us. [...]

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Ding dong the neocon…

by Philip Weiss22 January 2010

A major neocon hive, MESH, Middle East Strategy at Harvard, which was headed by usual-suspect types Stephen Peter Rosen and Martin Kramer, seems to be disappearing into the twilight. Its website announces that it is "hibernating." Let’s pray for a long winter.
Rosen and Kramer’s frank admission of failure:

We always conceived of MESH as an [...]

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