Speaking of Jewish wealth/success, USA Today reports on the massive speaking fees earned last year by State Department envoys Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross, $1.7 million and $420,000 respectively–half of Ross’s speaking income from Jewish groups. Per his disclosure statement,…
Max Blumenthal reporting from the West Bank: On Saturday I traveled to the South Hebron Hills, to the Palestinian village of Safa, with an Israeli group called Ta’ayush that works to protect Palestinian farmers from settler violence and documents the…
Bernard Avishai on TPM: OBAMA, PRESUMABLY, WILL be too polite to ask Netanyahu: “What kind of Jewish state?” But perhaps his people could later put the question to Uzi Arad, the other Israeli official in the room, [who has an…
A few days after Obama’s scheduled speech in Cairo in June, Lebanon will hold general elections that Hezbollah may win. The following report is from our Palestinian-American California friend whom we’ve previously called “Seven” in part because she fears loss…
Richard Silverstein says: I just signed a pledge of support for President Obama to act decisively and boldly to reach an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. The President needs grassroots backing in order to go the whole nine yards for peace. There…
Richard Silverstein says: I just signed a pledge of support for President Obama to act decisively and boldly to reach an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. The President needs grassroots backing in order to go the whole nine yards for peace. There…
Haaretz and others say that Obama will use the Cairo speech on June 4 to call for a Palestinian state as an urgent fulfillment of promises put off for decades. Even Nadia Hijab of IPS says that a “truncated” Palestinian…
Reuters got the story; it’s all about Obama insisting on the two-state solution. Huffpo got this. So did French TV. So did the Washington Post. But The New York Times blew the story. “OBama Tells Netanyahu He Has an Iran…
Michael Wolff tells a weird story about American Apparel boss, Dov Charney: Dov Charney has used a photographic approach that might be characterized as underage retro porn as American Apparel’s branding theme. Charney, who often takes the pictures himself, recently…