Ma’ariv reported yesterday that Israeli Prime Minister Olmert has turned over to the U.S. a document setting out Israel’s security demands in a final agreement, and that the U.S. is considering “bridging” proposals to split the differences between Israeli and…
Last week I blogged about Israeli shootings of young Palestinians who were protesting Israeli expansion in Azzoun in the West Bank. Why are they protesting? The famous Israeli separation fence travels across Palestinian farmland in the area, well inside the…
A few weeks back a girl I hadn’t seen in nearly 40 years (oh my!) called me to say she was organizing a reunion of our junior high school class. Just our classroom, actually; we were in a special “accelerated”…
Tom Edsall had an OK piece on Huffpo about Sheldon Adelson, the casino mogul and One-Jerusalem guy and funder of the rightwing Freedom’s Watch, in which he pushed the demand on Freedom’s Watch to disclose the extent of Adelson’s contributions….
As any regular reader of this blog knows, the best post I’ve done in a while is the one about Anti-semites being on my side of these issues and what should I do about it. There have been a lot…
David Bloom of Adalah NY has done his homework on Georgia. He points out the disturbing connections to Israel, and the misgivings that this is causing Jews of conscience: Commenting on Israel’s role in Georgia, Gabriel Ash notes on Jews…
Interesting how the leftwing blogosphere, which used to be a little chary about Israel and the neocons, has gotten religion. I have! Now it’s everywhere. Here’s Paul Craig Roberts on Counterpunch, describing the Georgia effrontery as a motion of neoconservative…
Last spring Condoleezza Rice had to intervene when Israel refused to allow seven Fulbright scholars to leave Gaza. Israel relented. Well now three of the seven have been denied visas to the U.S., by the U.S. One, Fidaa Abed, was…
I can be a flake. Thus my historical post re Georgia this morning. I’m not taking it back, but the intimacy of the relationship between Georgia and Israel is weird and whacked. Here’s charismatic president Mikheil Saakashvili playing Groucho Marx…