Paul Berman’s comments on Z-word about Israel/Palestine are so troubling that I need to visit them again. You know me, I’m like a dog with a bone. Well this is what he says about the occupation: I know that a…
Another important sign that Obama is changing the water in the aquarium. The Israel lobby is openly derided in this piece on Foreign Policy’s Cable, which, echoing the new conventional wisdom in Washington, virtually mocks Dennis Ross’s lack of a…
Avigdor Lieberman may have come in a surprising third in the elections in Israel, but he knows where the ultimate power base is. So today he has an op-ed in the New York Jewish Week trying to overcome the criticism…
Today’s letter from the office of the Director of National Intelligence selecting Chas Freeman, a man of the world, as director of the National Intelligence Council… Steve Clemons says the thrashing of the anti-Freemanites reveals the weakness of the lobby:…
This sort of story makes me sick. Here’s Marcia Kramer of WCBS television in New York carrying the water for the Israel lobby by turning on Hillary Clinton for her statements pressing for Israel to speed up aid to Gaza….
Al-Jazeera has a two-part exploration of the Israel lobby. Idrees Ahmad points out that you’d never see this on the BBC. Or on PBS. Steve Walt is interviewed, so are Jim Lobe, Anatol Lieven, and Ilan Pappe. Wow. Meantime, Mounir…
By Robert Dreyfuss. Good reporting. My big new theme, I’m working on this one. In 1857-60, Abraham Lincoln, then an outsider radical and disappointed office-seeker who believed one thing– that slavery was evil– built the Republican Party and broke the…
From Alan Dershowitz’s blogpost in the Jerusalem Post. My read is that Dershowitz is afraid of what is happening in the U.S. and is desperate to stop it going forward, symbolically. Dershowitz has real power here; he has already caused…
I’ve seen my mother twice in the last month and a half. The first time we were meeting my nephews, her grandsons, at the Museum of Natural History. The boys are from California. We went to a sports bar to…