The discourse is changing under our feet. Good piece from Jonathan Wright in Cairo. To wit: “Obama’s position is very precarious. The Jewish lobby warned against his election, so he has chosen to remain silent (on Gaza),” added Hilal Khashan,…
Last summer an Iraq veteran stood up in the balcony during John McCain’s speech at the Republican convention with a sign “You Can’t Win an Occupation.” Steve Walt sent me an email that contained the same truth this afternoon, and…
Spencer Ackerman has a good point, that this is a moment of testing for progressives in the face of the “shtetl police.” He says progressive Jews– I don’t care so much about Jews–Everyone in the U.S. faces the shtetl police:…
This morning I said Israel attacked the “Dignity,” based on Free Gaza’s use of that word. Now Free Gaza is reporting that Israeli boats came out of the darkness and rammed Dignity, severely damaging it. The cable shows are going…
Adam Horowitz writes: Today in the New York Times Benny Morris gets his semi-annual opportunity to try to justify Israeli militarism and expansionism: “Why Israel Feels Threatened”. Presented as an outline of all the threats Israel faces he begins, “Many…
Further evidence that the Israel lobby is delaminating. Larry Johnson, an ex-CIA security pro and former counter-terrorism guy at State who looks on Hamas as a terror organization (sorry, there’s no accounting for taste), says that Israel’s strategy is “bulls–t”….
Where have all the neocons gone? The realists have picked them every one. David Frum, the sloganmeister behind Axis of Evil and Victory or Holocaust, endorses (as “excellent”) a fellow neocon’s statement: the casualties are disproportionate: Hamas has arranged it…
Below are opinions from two non-Zionist Jewish pals of mine about what Gaza means for the lobby/Obama. In this corner, wearing the white trunks, is Jack Ross, who is optimistic and who I completely agree with, and who was dubbed…
At a time when the American Jewish community is staggered and lost, and starting to question the sagacious leadership of Jeffrey Goldberg, Marty Peretz, and Michael Oren, the Times runs a horrifyingly ethnocentric piece by Israeli military historian Benny Morris,…