“After the establishment of the state, we will abolish partition and spread throughout all of Palestine,” Ben-Gurion said, and new bus ads say that the US has done nothing to stop continuing Israeli settlements

There’s a certain poetic justice about the indiscriminate treachery of Michael Oren’s new book, ironically titled Ally. Like Shakespeare’s Richard III, whose systematic betrayals punish his comrades for the parallel sins of their pasts, Oren – once Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. – is now smearing many of his Jewish-American former friends with a dose of their own medicine. In fact, it’s hard not to notice that every one of the folks offended by Oren’s new book has been just as mendacious as Oren himself when it comes to flacking for Israel.

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How would Hillary Clinton balance her unceasing commitment to neoconservatives with America’s policy interests in the region as president? In Syria as with Iraq, it’s clear Hillary’s instincts have been considerably more hawkish than Obama’s. Hawkish instincts proved a disaster in the wake of September 9, 2001.

Enacting sanctions on Israel, that is ending the U.S. government’s unflinching support of Israel, should be the key action item for organizations leading the BDS movement, yet most of them are conspicuously silent on this topic.

Hasan Masri was arrested by Israeli police after defending his family from a settler attack on the road from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. And a 30-year-old woman in the party suffered a miscarriage due to “extreme fear” of the settlers.

While any number of analysts and agencies are busy investigating “Islamic terror,” next to none pay any attention to the kind of attacks like those perpetrated by Dylann Roof in Charleston. That’s because the FBI isn’t interested in terrorism unless it is linked to Islam. This discourse has a history in the US, and Israel’s interests figure in that history.

“America First,” Hillary Clinton’s website declares, but when it comes to foreign policy: “If you challenge Israel’s security, you challenge America’s security. Plain and simple.”

Tony Judt’s apprehensions about Israel’s future seem more cogent than ever, Jacob Heilbrunn writes in NYT, in a hat-tip to the one-state solution

Claims that Palestinian solidarity activists made “threats” against the first Israeli feis, or Gaelic dance competition, to force its cancellation lack any evidence. Maybe the boycott worked after all, and no one showed up?