This afternoon on MSNBC, Mark Whitaker said of Hillary’s speech that some Arab states care more about Iran than they do about the peace process–that they seek American pressure to stop Iranian nukes more than pressure to resolve the Israel/Palestinian…
Ira Glunts writes: Did you see the editorial in Ha’aretz today? They think Obama should take his case directly to the Israeli public. Talk about Obamania!!! From the Hebrew comments I would say that the President would not be treated…
Journalist Ron Kampeas of JTA (a settler who owns property in illegally-annexed East Jerusalem) writes today that the American Jewish Committee has not run from a debate with “bums” Walt and Mearsheimer. He says the AJC has merely postponed such…
Seham responds to my post about the question of whether Jews agonizing over their Jewish identity is a sideshow to real engagement on Israel/Palestine: You know how much I like forwarding news items along, and invariably at some point a…
Yes Virginia, there is an Israel lobby. Greg Sargent reports: In a major foreign policy speech this afternoon, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will take direct aim at Arab states for not doing their part towards securing Mideast peace, demanding…
Yesterday Breaking the Silence broke an important report from Israeli soldiers, one of whom compared the Gaza operation to burning ants with a magnifying glass, as a kid. Bruce Wolman writes: The Independent covers the IDF soldiers’ testimonies from Gaza,…
Last night we had a blowout discussion of Gaza at the Brecht Forum in New York. At the end of the night Mahmoud Bitar, a Palestinian-American, rose and in a passionate tone said “what I’m experiencing now is excitement, I…
From the JTA: “Life story, Israel trips tie Sotomayor to Jews” It doesn’t hurt that Sotomayor, 54, is a poster child for strong Jewish-Hispanic relations. In 1986, when she was in private legal practice, she joined one of the first…