Chas Freeman vs Chuck Schumer is Hutus vs. Tutsis. They’re from different tribes, in a power struggle for the American establishment. Schumer’s is winning. Freeman’s crowd, the bluebloods, have been pushed out. Schumer has tribal loyalties to the Jewish neoconservatives,…
Dan Fleshler is real smart on the Israel lobby. And he says AIPAC’s fingerprints were all over the Freeman takedown: Very reliable sources inform me that Josh Block, an AIPAC spokesperson, contacted bloggers and journalists expressing concern about Freeman. That…
(Face to face with Palestine: Alice Walker talks with Palestinian women in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker has done her first interview on her trip to Gaza. The Associated Press…
Yesterday morning at 11, in a clairvoyant post titled, “Freeman is a lock to keep his appointment,” I noted, “Chas Freeman has never suffered fools–he recently described George W. Bush as ‘leading the world’s first genuinely-autistic government'”. That link was…
Re Adam Horowitz’s post earlier today, Jack Ross writes: Daniel Pipes and Chuck Schumer were in the same class at Harvard, and no doubt because of said connection Schumer conspicuously stood up for Pipes when he was nominated to the…
Success is said to have a thousand fathers and Daniel Pipes is joining the crowd taking credit for the Freeman takedown. He sent out the following note to his email newsletter mailing list last night: Dear Reader: As many of…
Great analysis by Steve Walt of the Freeman affair, its chilling effect and the silver lining (Israel lobby was seen fleeing the scene of the crime in a Lexus). Great time-line and reporting of the foreign-policy establishment’s support for Freeman…
This is amazing. A nominee for a high intelligence position bows out of the job under fierce political attack and issues a blistering statement that the Israel lobby is endangering our national security by smearing anybody who disagrees with it…
Charles W. “Chas” Freeman Jr.’s statement: To all who supported me or gave me words of encouragement during the controversy of the past two weeks, you have my gratitude and respect. You will by now have seen the statement by…