One of the most interesting speeches given at the AIPAC Policy Conference was one that received the least media attention. AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr addressed the capacity crowd Sunday night before Newt Gingrich, and he came with a stern…
Gideon Levy thinks so: Peres also hasn’t forgotten the shopworn, hollow old slogans about Israel’s yearning for peace, slogans for which one might still find dubious buyers only occasionally in America. Israel yearns for “peace with all peoples, with all…
The following was written by Rae Abileah, a young American Jew of Israeli and Dutch descent. Abileah was one of the members of CODEPINK who disrupted Israeli President Shimon Peres’s speech during the AIPAC Policy Conference (she is third from…
During his speech to the the AIPAC Policy Conference, Joe Biden told a story about meeting Golda Meir as a young senator in 1973. He said that he was worried about Israel’s future at that time, but Meir comforted him…
Phil posted yesterday on Jane Harman’s comments at the AIPAC conference yesterday. Here is some video posted by TPM: You can watch the full video on the AIPAC website.
Today, Shimon Peres kicked off the AIPAC conference with a special address. Phil noted some observations below. Initial buzz from the speech in and around the conference center is that Peres neglected to mention the need to establish a Palestinian…
Phil and I are in DC taking in all AIPAC has to offer. We’ll be posting longer reports soon, but in the meantime you can follow us on Twitter. Just go to twitter.com/mondoweiss for the latest. Next up: Newt Gingrich…
Being Friday afternoon, it only seems appropriate to pass along this important rabbinical reflection. Rabbi Brant Rosen has done it again. Below is from a post on his blog entitled “Why I Didn’t Celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut.” Yom Ha’atzmaut is Independence…
Writing in the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah dissects two recent polls that claim to measure Palestinian attitudes towards the peace process and possible solutions to the conflict following the war in Gaza. He looks at two polls – one by…