I am old enough to remember clearly how the Six-Day War was reported at the…
Paul Berman’s claim that Eric Alterman is blackmailing him over sexual correspondence has had the good effect of exposing Berman’s continued evasion of the fact that he supported the disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Jared Kushner, the First Son-in-Law, is secret financial partners with what was once the richest family in Israel — the billionaire Steinmetzes, whose leading figure has been linked to a massive bribery scandal in Africa. Kushner’s hidden business ties, just revealed in the New York Times and Bloomberg, should prompt the same intense scrutiny that other Trump officials have gotten for their secret links to Russia.
The coverage of the Palestinian issue in the New York Times is getting better, as reflected by the Marwan Barghouti op-ed calling Israel a “moral failure,” and new Jerusalem bureau chief Ian Fisher’s straightforward reports. Yes the Times hired neocon crank Bret Stephens; but the paper of record is in play.
Marwan Barghouti op-ed in international edition of NYT says Israel’s history of imprisoning 40 percent of Palestinian male population is typical of colonial occupiers. Why wouldn’t the Times publish this op-ed to the audience that matters most, Americans?
Last week Israeli PM Netanyahu announced that Israel would mark the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War in an illegal settlement, an official celebration of 50 years of occupation and human rights violations. The story has so far gotten no attention in the U.S.
Israel is an overwhelmingly right-wing nation, says Larry Derfner in his new memoir. “Despite what sentimental liberals like to believe, it’s not the big bad Israeli leaders who drag the peace-loving public to battle; it’s much closer to being the other way around.”
“Liberals who for years on end warn Israel about the future are just afraid to admit that the future has long since arrived.” Larry Derfner, a prominent American-turned-Israeli journalist, has written a brave and compelling new memoir that indicts liberal Zionism.
The White House plan to expand the Border Patrol and ICE gives Bannon and Trump a growing armed wing that is independent of local police, that can conduct raids anywhere in the United States, and that showed its enthusiasm for Trump by endorsing him well before before the election.
Once again the NYT covers up the illegal nature of Israeli settlements, suggesting the world has it out for Israel. ‘World leaders have denounced the settlements in the West Bank.” The Times should say that the settlements are considered a flagrant violation of international law– or tell us why that’s not the case.