It hasn’t taken long for the Lieberman ascendancy to pay dividends. Right-wing Jewish activists descended on Umm al-Fahm, the largest Palestinian city inside Israel, today in to carry out a provocative march to “demand loyalty” from the Palestinian citizens of…
This is the most important political post I’ve done in a while, so listen up. Joe Bodell is a progressive reporter in Minnesota, and Jewish. On Wikileaks recently, he explored a list of former Senator Norm Coleman’s financial contributors, evidently…
My Maimonides, Ilene Cohen, is perplexed: Is it: a. It’s all lies (the IDF is the most moral army in the world). b. It’s the proverbial few rotten apples (the IDF is the most moral army in the world). c….
More lobby fingerprints: Facts & Logic about the Middle East, a tambourine group, here takes credit for forcing Chas Freeman’s withdrawal: Congratulations to all FLAME supporters who responded to our last FLAME Hotline, in which we encouraged you to write…
My Kafka kick began a few weeks back, when an anti-Zionist friend sent me an email containing a story by Kafka. Here’s the whole story, which his friend Max Brod, going through his papers after his death, titled “A Little…
another brilliant video by Max Blumenthal, on Wall Street, tapping the rage against Goldman. Blumenthal suggests waterboarding and rendition of the AIG guys to get the bonuses back, and at 5:44 does the famous Goldman alums as a hall of…
One of my themes is that the Israel lobby has too much power in American life because both parties are behind it. I compare it to the consensus for slavery that existed in the 1850s between Whigs and Dems before…
On Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show on March 15, Chas Freeman said that the Zionist Organization of America had coordinated a campaign against his selection to be Obama’s National Intelligence Council chair, an appointment he had given up under pressure five…
Yesterday, the Washington Post asked David Kilcullen, an Australian army reservist and top adviser to Gen. David H. Petraeus who has spent years studying insurgencies in Iraq, Indonesia and Afghanistan, among other countries, “What are the lessons of Iraq that…