Here’s Bob Simon of “60 Minutes” on Charlie Rose talking about an upcoming “60 Minutes” piece on the settlers on the West Bank: He says that history has passed the 2-state solution by. It is impossible to remove the 300,000…
Glenn Greenwald has another great piece in Salon attacking the lockstep support for Israel in Congress in the face of massacres. The problem is that the astute Greenwald still has no explanation of why we are experiencing this meltdown in…
The Forward has launched another shot across J Street’s bow, declaring that its brave coalition of 4 leftwing groups was a total failure on Capitol Hill in the ongoing legislative battle. anger over J Street’s statement [criticizing the Israeli assault…
Robert Scheer: history is replete with examples of terrorists becoming statesmen, even within the early ranks of Jews fighting to establish the state of Israel. One of those was Menachem Begin, who went on to be an elected leader of…
Here’s what J Street is up against. This Sunday there’s going to be a “In support of Israel and its operation in Gaza” rally in New York. There’s not a word in the rally promotion about the hundreds of Palestinians…
Jerome Slater writes of today’s Times: It’s almost beginning to look like the Times has experienced an ephiphany. Not only is there increasingly skeptical coverage from its news reporters, including some who until now have been largely uncritical of Israel,…
Fresh analysis from my new correspondent AC, who declines even to reveal his nationality, but he’s smart and interesting: About that international community. Never such a fictive group did exist – there is no international community when interests of powerful…