This is how screwed up American Jewish leadership is. Democratic congresswoman Shelley Berkley says she calls Mort Klein of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) before she decides how to vote on bills about the Middle East. Well: Here is…
Michael Scheuer at antiwar.com, reports on a debate at Georgetown University last week hosted by the Doha Foundation. Scheuer and Avraham Burg argued for the U.S. to finally get tough on Israel, and Alan Dershowitz and Dore Gold arguing agin…
John Pilger in the New Statesman: Protected by the fake sinecure of Middle East envoy for the Quartet (the US, EU, UN and Russia), [Tony] Blair operates largely from a small fortress in the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, where…
Jack Ross writes: There’s a problem neither you or any of the reporters pointed out – it’s Netanyahu, not Lieberman, who’s more intractably opposed to a two state solution. It is precisely Lieberman’s support for a Greece-Turkey style population transfer…
A few weeks after his friend Michael Walzer pronounced on the “awfulness” of Gaza, Leon Wieseltier has had a similar epiphany: “I have a sickened feeling about the recent campaign in Gaza. No sovereign state can accept regular aggressions across…
Bruce Wolman urges me to stop talking about Jeffrey Goldberg. He says that Goldberg “willfully ignores material counterfactuals to maintain his narrative” and suggests that my perseveration will bring me down to Goldberg’s boxcutter level. I’m not convinced. Goldberg is…
Here is a great video on Avigdor Lieberman from J Street. “Stand up for your values,” it tells American Jews. Who is standing up? The video notes that David Harris of the American Jewish Committee was upset with Lieberman, but…
You’ll see that in this exchange with reporters yesterday at the State Department, spokesman Gordon Duguid’s talking points were to say nothing about Lieberman, and just say We welcome Netanyahu’s commitment to the 2-state solution when reporters tried to mention…
“Progressive” populist broadcaster Ed Schultz has been named the new 6 o’clock anchor on MSNBC. Sounds like he’s a progressive in the Mark Green mode: PEP. Progressive except for Palestine. Susie Kneedler: Three years ago Ed Schultz defended “Israel’s right…