In an editorial today, the Washington Post says: Thanks to the construction of a fence along the West Bank border and a cease-fire deal with Hamas, Israel has been more peaceful in recent months than it has been in years….
Any doubt why Obama chose Dennis Ross as a foreign policy adviser? He wants the lobby in his pocket. The Jerusalem Post interviewed Ross about the Middle East and he said Iraq was a great success story and that Jerusalem…
Avraham Burg’s Holocaust book has broken as news in England, in the Independent: Benjamin Netanyahu, a front-runner for the Israeli premiership, has been severely criticised by a former Speaker of the Knesset and head of the Jewish Agency for comparing…
Ralph Nader has taken up the USS Liberty cause, challenging John McCain over the 1967 attack/accident on Israel’s part that killed 34 American sailors. I never look into this myself. Because I know what I’d think–Nader says it’s a coverup,…
Having kicked from here to there, and been kicked, Doug Feith hath roosted, inevitably, at that neocon masada, the Hudson Institute.
Peretz has stood up for Khalidi. Very nice. And good for Jake Tapper, too: he calls Peretz a super-Zionist. Perhaps preparing America to learn the stations of the Religious Left that has controlled our disastrous policy in the Middle East,…
interview of McCain campaign mouthpiece Michael Goldfarb by Rick Sanchez of CNN in which Goldfarb states that Rashid Khalidi is “anti-semitic” and Sanchez mildly defends Kahlidi. At least Sanchez pounds Goldfarb when he says “we all know” of another person…
Flyer warning of Holocaust under Obama, and mailed to Jews in Pennsylvania, features photo of Obama at giant rally in Germany, reports Greg Sargent at TPM… Thanks to Jeet Heer for tip.
The other night I heard Ted Koppel on Charlie Rose waxing orotund about the great civil rights struggle in the American South in the 60s, which he is now chronicling on the Discovery channel, as I recall. Some of the…