TPM is on the case, with appropriate jaundice.
Luke Russert said The Israel Lobby is on his reading list. You go, man! You rock! Fill those shoes, dude! Your dad never got around to that angle in his brief great canny life; you can!
Why no press in Gaza? Because Israel is acting with insanity, Holocaust-borne. AP reports that the International Red Cross/Palestinian Red Crescent only got to some houses days after they were attacked. In one case, four days later: “The ICRC/PRCS team…
New Yorker Rashid Khalidi on the Times Op-Ed page. Yes the Times op-ed page: The majority of the 1.5 million people crammed into the roughly 140 square miles of the Gaza Strip belong to families that came from towns and…
Oh ye of little faith. Today’s Times Op-Ed page is amazing, I’m told. I have only gotten to the Cohen piece but here’s the lineup. I see Kristof stepping out a little, Rashid Khalidi restored, and one or two other…
I believe we will look back on Gaza as the turning point in American Jewish identity/the life of the lobby. I said this ten days ago, I’m saying it again. And yes I’m a dreamer. Isn’t that why you’re reading…
Here’s the draft resolution being circulated by the Democrats on Capitol Hill. Download it here. Money quotes, and yes I mean money: “Whereas Hamas was founded with the stated goal of destroying the State of Israel; “Whereas Hamas has been…
This just in from a friend: Richard Stengel was on Morning Joe talking about the next issue of Time Magazine – cover story “Why Israel Can’t Win.” Cover not yet up on website. Main point was that Gaza attack is…
Jeff Blankfort: “Only a single member of Congress, Dennis Kucinich,has come out unequivocally against the Israeli war… the only paper to report Kucinich’s remarks was the Cleveland Leader.” Looks like Kucinich is getting pickup in other independent outlets. And Al-Jazeera…