Note that the same day Edward Rothstein has his pious Holocaust-is-with-us piece in the Times, Haaretz publishes this excerpt from the British comedy show “Extras,” 2005: [Ricky] Gervais: You doing this, it’s so commendable, using your profile to keep the…
2 statements by Norman Finkelstein. 1. Finkelstein, a victim of the Israel lobby who has always denied its power in American political life, here accepts the idea that the Israel lobby played military expert Anthony Cordesman to say that Gaza…
Roger Cohen does a great service in today’s New York Times in a surprising article “What Iran’s Jews Say.” Reporting from Esfahan, Cohen blows away the image of Iran that AIPAC and the Israel lobby have worked so hard to…
Bill Moyers has the temerity to attack Israel for killing 400 children in Gaza and suddenly he’s being attacked all over for hunting up gay people in the White House 40 years ago. The timing is just too– perfect. Wall…
I’m hoping Jeff Ballabon will be the rightwing Dan Rather. Remember when Dan Rather’s poor factchecking over George W. Bush’s National Guard service ended up elevating rightwing sites like Little Green Footballs, which had showed that some of the paperwork…
Here’s a site I had never heard about, New Majority, in which protean neocon David Frum is trying to reinvigorate the neocons. The problem is that they offer the same oldtime dual-loyalty religion: Noah Pollak, in this case, of Commentary…
Note to journalists. You will not see a better headline than the headline on Steve Walt’s latest post at Foreign Policy: “Richard Perle is a liar”. Is there a more electrifying phrase in the English language? Walt delivers: The bottom…
Yesterday I posted on the fact that Jimmy Carter’s presidential ranking, per a group of august scholars retained by CNN, has plummeted in the last 9 years, I believe because he has been so engaged in Israel/Palestine. Well we live…
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