The Israel Lobby continues to delaminate. Meretz USA has come out with a declaration, “The old rules of Diaspora-Israel relations are no longer acceptable to us”–i.e., passivity, cheerleading, omerta and bullying. Then Meretz shaprly criticizes the Israeli settlements policy and…
The key to changing Middle East policy is to hear more from real people, not ideologues or Richard Holbrooke. Yaser Wishah co-owns the Xpress Fuel and Lube in Olathe, Kansas. Yesterday the Kansas City Star bravely published his Op-Ed, which…
This is the fourth in a series, How to Think About Darfur, by James North: Darfur is one of the relatively few places in Africa where the word “tribe” is valid.� or decades, Africans have been asking rhetorically why 25…
Here’s why I say that Zionism’s a deadend ideology. Haaretz reports that the schools in the city of Kiryat Gat, in southern Israel, are using a video called “Sleeping with the Enemy” in a program approved by the local government…
[One of my gurus, Jack Ross, 23, had some comments re Pete Seeger, whom I hagiographied yesterday. I don’t agree with Jack here, I luv Seeger, but some of his asides are sharp, so I’m passing them along…] I do…
Here’s a feverish piece from WINEP (Obama aide Dennis Ross’s hangout), calling for the United States to protect the MEK, an Iranian resistance force based in Iraq, which Iraq’s leaders want to extirpate. WINEP’s Raymond Tanter, a visiting prof at…
If you want to see Va. Rep. Eric Cantor, who’s in the outside lane on the McCain veepstakes, here he is on youtube, in Jerusalem. Speaking last November, as “a longtime friend of [the rightwing group] One Jerusalem.” He left…
The other day I told a Jewish journalist friend about the Joe Klein “divided loyalties” brouhaha, and he said, “My god, I’ve always thought that a lot of these guys [neocons et al] have single loyalties. But I have never…
The great Jeff Halper is planning to sail in a few days on one of several Free Gaza boats aimed at breaking the siege: Because Israel has no right to besiege a civilian population, it has no legal right to…