How long can Americans deny international consensus? A human rights group founded by Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, with the likes of Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter, lately visited Jordan, Israel, and Palestine, with sadly predictable consequences: President…
Obama was spectacular on “60 Minutes” last night, spectacular. I watched with my jaw open. Anyone who doubted this man’s abilities I want to laugh at today. The command of facts and ideas, the sense of priority, the cool executive…
From Adalah-NY’s statement about tonight’s fundraiser in NY for the Hebron Fund, which supports colonialists in the West Bank: Kathleen Duffy, a spokesperson for Marriott in New York City,…did not respond directly to questions about seeming violations of the Marriott’s…
On reflection, I find it lamentable that the LA Times piece by Avraham Burg, which I welcomed last night, and still do, is the Exalted Burg way up there circling on his thermals. It is all about the Shoah in…
Jeff Blankfort responds to the Israel Project’s poll of Americans’ love for Israel: Polls taken in the US are generally designed to test the public to judge to what extent they have imbibed the propaganda dished out by the mainstream…
Thank heavens for the LA Times Op-Ed page. Finally Avraham Burg’s book on the urgency of ending the Holocaust mindset is getting coverage in the U.S press. I don’t think there have been major reviews yet. But the LAT runs…
Eight groups across the religious/ethnic spectrum have called on the Marriott Marquis Hotel to cancel a fundraiser set for tomorrow night by the Hebron Fund, which gives money to the illegal colonies in Hebron. Protests are planned if the fundraiser…
This poll of Americans by The Israel Project was embargoed till 3:30 PM Jerusalem time today, which of course sets my dual-loyalty hairs on end. But having looked over the poll, the actual questions, it’s hard to quarrel with the…
This is from the Times of London. Obama is endorsing the Geneva initiative of 2002, privately. So Dan Kurtzer may be the real wheel in the swiss watch we call Obama’s brain. Obama is getting Peres on board. And presumably…