Ynet meets Dr. Eran Lerman, who took office Thursday as deputy chief of Israel’s National Security Council. For the last nine years, Dr. Lerman has served as the director of the American Jewish Committee’s Middle East office. The AJC is…
Jeff Blankfort writes: “Being a State Department or White House press spokesperson is no easy job; and this guy at State, Ian Kelly, says he’s worried about getting fired or transfered if he says too much re Dennis Ross. A…
Here is Jeff Blankfort’s shrewd analysis of what he calls Bambi-Bibi: Obama’s statement on freezing the settlements was weak in the extreme, and by failing to mention the historic US opposition to settlements and Israel’s ignoring of the US position,…
Report by Robert Dreyfuss in the Nation, on an appearance at Washington Institute for Near East Policy last week of Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, who is training Palestinian troops in the West Bank and who said that two-state solution is…
MJ Rosenberg has a typically smart piece on TPM arguing that Obama is actually going to bring Netanyahu to his knees, that the lobby doesn’t have the ability to buck a popular American president. As for the lobby, it will…
Jeff Blankfort makes an interesting point about dual loyalty accusations. Michael Oren, born in the US and a dual citizen, is about to become Israel’s ambassador to the US which will require him to give up his US citizenship, the…
Jeff Blankfort makes an interesting point about dual loyalty accusations. Michael Oren, born in the US and a dual citizen, is about to become Israel’s ambassador to the US which will require him to give up his US citizenship, the…
One of my favorite themes is that Palestinian statelessness is an American Jewish achievement–the lobby’s support for the settlement program throughout the ’90s. Jeff Blankfort reports on a review of Dan Fleshler’s book on the Israel lobby, in The Jewish…
Jeff Blankfort writes: This column in the Washington Post seems to be the most convincing piece yet that Israel will attack Iran on its schedule unless Obama publicly says he has told Israel not to. Should Israel launch an attack…