Says the President-Elect. The American idea of exceptionalism (melting pot, hybrid vigor) has now fully surpassed the Jewish idea of exceptionalism (ethnocentrism)…
Longish Amy Goodman show on where is Obama going in the Middle East, including smart comments from Ali Abunimah, that Obama had close connections with the Arab community in Chi-town but has now “painted himself into the corner” with the…
The Globe has this piece on Obama’s Harvard braintrust: Indeed, Hauser Hall, on the law school campus, could double as an Obama campaign outpost. The directory in the lobby includes half a dozen professors who have played the role of…
Oh my breaking heart. This is from Andrew Sullivan’s blog. A reader kvelling (Yiddish, sorry; I promise equal Arabic in days to come) about Emanuel’s “impeccable” credentials including the fact that his father was in the Irgun. But of course…
of the books on Rahm Emanuel’s White House bookshelf in the 2nd pic in this Huffpo slideshow. One is by Palestinian Hanan Ashrawi, my redoubtable photographer friend has pointed out to me. My take is that this shows that Emanuel…
Mirabile dictu, Jake Tapper of ABC has, in a quiet and “How’s the water?” tone, broached the obvious questions about Rahm Emanuel– noting Emanuel’s service to the Israeli army and his extremist paternity (Emanuel’s father was a member of a…
Last night I posted a disturbing video of soldiers teasing a Palestinian in ways I couldn’t understand. Here is the Haaretz story behind it: Channel 10 on Thursday released footage taken by Israel Defense Forces soldiers of themselves humiliating a…
The Israeli secret police seem focused partly on Anarchists Against the Wall, which won a human rights prize here in Berlin. Well here in Tel Aviv, you see them nutty anarchists putting up a separation fence in Tel Aviv so…
I’m sure he’s a nice guy, but as I have said before, California lefty Stephen Zunes has made idiotic statements about the Israel lobby and the Iraq war. Here is the smoking gun of idiocy. In lamenting the Rahm Emanuel…