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Letter to Obama: Don’t visit Nativity Church in Bethlehem, witness Separation Wall & refugee camps instead
Munther Isaac, director of the “Christ at the Checkpoint Conference” and faculty member at the Bethlehem Bible College has written an open letter to President Obama on his upcoming visit to Bethlehem.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
Tagged Bethlehem, Israel, Obama, occupation, Palestine, Palestinian refugees
16 Comments
Do we really need another ‘Gandhi’?
Calls abound for another Gandhi — particularly when the subject is the Palestinian struggle for human rights and self-determination. Nicholas Kristof is just the latest. The main reason why my business partner and I called our latest venture the Palestinian … Continue reading
Will a US veto at the UN invite another 9/11 (followed by an attack on Iran)?
Former U.S. ambassador Charles O. Cecil’s letter to President Obama warns that a U.S. veto of Palestine’s application for U.N. membership will physically endanger American civilians: …if the United States vetoes the Palestinian request for statehood, we will damage our position in … Continue reading
Obama’s only tool against Netanyahu is… delegitimization
Lately I have had conversations with two very-connected Jews that suggested to me the wheels are coming off the lobby’s cart, that the collapse of the talks due to Israel’s intransigence is upsetting American Jews, and some of the grown-ups … Continue reading
Obama’s failure has served to expose Israeli intransigence here and abroad
As the United States sends envoy George Mitchell to grasp at straws in hopes of restarting negotiations to create a Palestinian state after the Israeli government refused to curb settlement construction, Obama’s inability to entice Netanyahu’s coalition to comply with … Continue reading
Why is the White House sending its Iran negotiator to a neocon conference in D.C.?
Well because that’s where the power is. The permanent Establishment in D.C. has a neoconservative flavor right now, Obama has to truckle to those folks. (Ask me why later.) The Foundation for Defense of Democracies is a neoconservative shop. It … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Gary Samore, Iran, Israel Lobby, neoconservatives, Obama
15 Comments
Ex-CIA official: Obama’s only peace process is to ‘hope for a miracle’
Robert Grenier, CIA’s chief of station in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 1999 to 2002 and director of the CIA’s counter-terrorism center, writes in disbelief at the current Obama administration strategy with the peace process (which he considers long dead). He comments … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East
Tagged Israel, Obama, peace process, settlements
29 Comments
Qatar nutmegs Obama
One may fairly conclude that Barack Obama’s over-hyped alleged efforts to “reach out” to the Arab and Muslim worlds ended yesterday when he responded, with a breathtaking lack of grace, to Qatar’s defeat of the United States (as well as … Continue reading
Posted in Beyondoweiss
Tagged American image, England, FIFA, Obama, outreach to Muslim world, Qatar, Russia, soccer, World Cup
15 Comments
More WikiLeaks: Netanyahu took Obama seriously, for a little while
Another report that the Netanyahu-Barak government was fluttered to the point of defensive reaction by the prospect of Obama’s Cairo speech– Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Obama administration just two weeks after elected to Knesset that he supported the … Continue reading
The (old) news from wikileaks so far – The US is Israel’s greatest enabler
That there is nothing new, or surprising, in these cables yet that we feel the need to parse through them is indicative of our frustration with the current state of affairs, leading us to believe this will be a worthwhile endeavor. Surely … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East
Tagged Israel, Obama, WikiLeaks
34 Comments
Americans are catching a clue, I tell you
From the always-entertaining Matt Bors, who works for many newspapers in the U.S. and lives in Portland. Thanks to Ali Gharib:
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Abbas, Hillary, Matt Bors, Netanyahu, Obama, peace process, separation wall
16 Comments
A deal on settlements: are we being played?
You’re fed up with Israel’s settlement policy. You’ve read about Obama’s offer to give Israel the moon for a three month moratorium that excludes East Jerusalem, and you’re furious. On the other hand, you might be someone who could care … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East
Tagged Israel, Obama, settlements
7 Comments
Lebanon, the endgame
Several recent news items have focused on Israel’s desire to confront Iran in Lebanon by taking on Iranian ally, Hizbollah. Yesterday Norman Finkelstein sent along this clip from the Asia Times, “Israel moves to counter Hezbollah,” which begins, “In the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Hariri assassination, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, norman finkelstein, Obama, war with Lebanon
64 Comments
Thrill is gone, ‘JPost’ editor concedes, twixt US and Israel
Here’s an interesting if gag-producing piece by David Horovitz, the editor of the Jerusalem Post, on how the relationship between Israel and the U.S. has chilled. The piece seeks “bitterly, to underline” how the romance between the countries has ended. … Continue reading
Saturday morning cartoons
Here’s another historical reenactment, this one courtesy of Blogging the Casbah:
Siegman and Walt both doubtful
Henry Siegman is cynical (at the National Interest) about Obama’s concessions to Netanyahu. Note Siegman’s blistering tone. Note the frank description of Palestinian rightlessness (emphasis mine). Siegman’s piece highlights the amazing fact that East Jerusalem is free for Netanyahu’s picking:
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged East Jerusalem, Henry Siegman, Netanyahu, Obama, settlements, Stephen Walt
14 Comments
But what if the Palestinians are the victims?
Roger Cohen praises Fayyad, and pushes the Obama-Clinton efforts. The settlement deal with Netanyahu is “positive but a detail.” (I’m not sure what he means by that.) His take on the Palestinian change of attitude reminds me a little of … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Clinton, IDF, Obama, Palestinian identity, Roger Cohen, Salam Fayyad
11 Comments
The handshake on the White House lawn
By now, readers must know that I possess one of the hallmarks of weak judgment, I believe whatever the last person I talked to has told me; and in that spirit, let me pass along what a friend told me … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Netanyahu, nihilism, Obama, one state, Palestine, Partition, Roger Cohen, Salam Fayyad, solidarity movement, Strawson, two state
30 Comments
Hitchens says US is ‘Shabbos goy’ to Israel, and latest deal will just further dispossess Palestinians
Christopher Hitchens has a great column at Slate describing the “national humiliation” of the United States by Israel in the latest deal that Netanyahu has extracted. Hitchens’s language is colorful, and is a reminder that generally when a writer writes … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, gentiles, Netanyahu, Obama, Palestinian dispossession, Shabbos goy, two-state solution
72 Comments
U.S. Justice Department prepares for the ominous expansion of law prohibiting ‘material support’ for terrorism
In late September the FBI carried out a series of raids of homes and anti-war offices of public activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Following the raids the Obama Justice Department subpoenaed 14 activists to a grand jury in Chicago and … Continue reading
NYT implies Muslims are the hostile ‘other’
The New York Times is at it again. In an article about President Obama’s mild criticism of Israel’s plans to build more settlements in occupied Palestine, the newspaper said: Despite their efforts to build mutual trust, Mr. Obama and Mr. … Continue reading
Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, Middle East
Tagged Indonesia, Muslim other, Netanyahu, Obama, settlements, The other
3 Comments
Obama’s political woes elicit advice from Israel (sans the usual middlemen)
More craziness from Israel– pressure on Obama without the usual lobby middlemen. Aluf Benn, an editor at Haaretz, echoes David Broder’s column saying that a U.S. attack on Iran would resurrect the economy and reelect Obama (Broder link here), then … Continue reading
Obama betrayed the antiwar left
Here are two perspectives on the Tea Party movement that offer tea some sympathy. Both writers are alive to an important trend, the degree to which privilege among Democrats (and there is a clear class break between blue states and … Continue reading
Posted in US Politics
Tagged antiwar, Chris Hedges, draft, Justin Raimondo, Milton Friedman, Obama, sellout, Tea Party, The American Conservative
23 Comments
Joy to the world, David Broder says Obama can rejuvenate the economy by going to war with Iran
“The war recovery?” by David Broder in the Washington Post. Is this a Zionist trojan horse? Here is where Obama is likely to prevail. With strong Republican support in Congress for challenging Iran’s ambition to become a nuclear power, he … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged David Broder, Iran, neoconservatism, nuclear threat, Obama, war, Washington Post, Zionism
158 Comments
‘NYT’ catches a clue
Maybe The New York Times learned something by going to Ariel on the settlers’ red carpet? Its editorial today strikes a new, important tone: it blames Netanyahu for the deadlock in the Middle East and says that the Palestinians and … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Chris Matthews, E.J. Dionne, Frank Rich, Israel Lobby, Netanyahu, new york times, Obama, two-state solution
18 Comments
