I was making lunch and only caught about ten minutes of Bill Kristol’s speech at the Young America’s Foundation yesterday. But this is a blog, and ten minutes is enough for a post. I was surprised by how backward-looking and…
Andy Whitmore, an activist in Kansas City, had the following response to the Olympics: “Last night’s Olympic ceremonies included four or five Palestinians. Matt Lauer commented that the Palestinians don’t have an Olympic sized pool. I’m going to find a…
Here’s Naomi Ragen, a writer who seems to split her citizenship between Israel and the U.S., speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald. She’s orthodox, and dismissive of most Jews: These people are ignorant of their own history. They don’t realise…
Legendary director Jonathan Demme offers the Guardian an analysis I share (and that you never see in the U.S. press), that Jimmy Carter didn’t get a second term partly because he took on the Israel lobby. Obama, for several reasons,…
Seth Freedman, a former IDF soldier filing reports from Jerusalem for the Guardian in England, writes in “Front Line Thugs” that nutty settlers in Hebron have poured boiling water on visitors seeking to see what’s going on. And he says…
Times columnist David Brooks’s spoke to the conservative Young America’s Foundation the other day on C-Span. Smart guy. He seemed to get a little teary over John McCain. It sounded more like a eulogy–that the foregone conclusion had taken place,…
Big anti-Israeli-occupation demonstrations are being planned for the political conventions this summer. Here is a righteous post from an organizer, Shergald, describing the way that Israel has thumbed its nose at George Bush over the colonization of the West Bank….
Philip Giraldi of the American Conservative is disputing Ron Suskind’s new book over the source of the pre-war lie that Saddam and Al-Qaeda were linked. Suskind blames the CIA; Giraldi says actually it was Douglas Feith at the Pentagon serving…
Breaking the Silence is the Israeli veterans’ group that took me to Hebron two years ago. Lately they took a group of British diplomats in an armoured car. The settlers attacked the car. I’m not entirely sure why this is…