Only in Ha’aretz: [L]ast Friday, [Mustafa] Barghouti, with hundreds of Palestinian activists and a hundred Israelis, took part in a demonstration against Road 443, which is blocked to Palestinians. Did you know about Road 443? Should you? Why isn’t it…
In 1991 President George H.W. Bush tried to stop Israeli settlements by linking American loan guarantees to the Jewish state with a freeze on the settlements. Pro-Israel groups in this country went haywire, and Bush backed down, and famously complained…
Today Israeli P.M. Olmert said that the “outpost” settlements in the West Bank are a “disgrace.” This after our president, George Bush, said the other day that these settlements “ought to go.” It shows 1, how powerful America is. If…
George Bush’s gentle criticism of the Israelis over the settlements today brings closer the moment when a national news show does a report on the Israel lobby and interviews John Mearsheimer and Dan Fleshler and Michael Lerner about what effect…
A few weeks back M.J. Rosenberg of IPF said there’s a “seismic shift” going on in the Jewish community in the U.S. Basically: the conservative Jewish organizations that dominate the lobby are coming out for a two-state solution at last,…
When Walt and Mearsheimer’s paper appeared in LRB eons ago, one of the controversies surrounded their statement that citizenship in Israel is based on “blood kinship.” Alan Dershowitz said they were reviving the blood libel. Benny Morris said that it…
Justin Elliott of Mother Jones went over the 11 Democratic debates to see how often Israel came up. His report: In nine of the 11 debates, the terms Israel, Palestinians, and Gaza were either never uttered or were mentioned once…
Every week or so in Haaretz, Shmuel Rosner rates American presidential candidates on Who is best for Israel? Giuliani is usually first, what with all the neocons in his braintrust, and Hillary is not that far behind. Ron Paul is…
When Condoleezza Rice met last September with Jewish leaders at the home of the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Haaretz editor David Landau told her that Israel was a “failed state” politically that needed to be “raped” by the United States….