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Jerome Slater writes of today’s Times: It’s almost beginning to look like the Times has experienced an ephiphany. Not only is there increasingly skeptical coverage from its news reporters, including some who until now have been largely uncritical of Israel,…

Fresh analysis from my new correspondent AC, who declines even to reveal his nationality, but he’s smart and interesting: About that international community. Never such a fictive group did exist – there is no international community when interests of powerful…

Jim Lobe says that it looks like Dennis Ross is to be the “czar” of Middle East policy under Hillary. This is staggeringly bad news. And illustrative of the fact that neoconservatism by one of its more amenable names is…

Luke Russert said The Israel Lobby is on his reading list. You go, man! You rock! Fill those shoes, dude! Your dad never got around to that angle in his brief great canny life; you can!

New Yorker Rashid Khalidi on the Times Op-Ed page. Yes the Times op-ed page: The majority of the 1.5 million people crammed into the roughly 140 square miles of the Gaza Strip belong to families that came from towns and…

Oh ye of little faith. Today’s Times Op-Ed page is amazing, I’m told. I have only gotten to the Cohen piece but here’s the lineup. I see Kristof stepping out a little, Rashid Khalidi restored, and one or two other…

Here’s the draft resolution being circulated by the Democrats on Capitol Hill. Download it here. Money quotes, and yes I mean money: “Whereas Hamas was founded with the stated goal of destroying the State of Israel; “Whereas Hamas has been…