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…
Israeli president Shimon Peres sounded the general line of the AIPAC policy conference this morning and described Iran as a terror state that threatens the world. The fanatical imams of Iran are “out of history, they are against history.” Israel…
California congresswoman Jane Harman was obviously picking her moment to take her stand this morning. At the end of a panel discussion about Middle East issues, she spoke of the recent reports that she was picked up in a gov’t…
3 memorable moments at policy conference so far: –Jane Harman’s outburst this morning, declaring that she was going to “waddle in” on a discussion of her wiretap. I’ll have a transcript a little later. Funny, nutty, dug in. And in…
A black man is in the White House, and on its first day the AIPAC policy conference has featured several black speakers. So far there’s been Kenneth Flowers, a preacher from Detroit, a student government president from Morgan State college,…
A black man is in the White House, and on its first day the AIPAC policy conference has featured several black speakers. So far there’s been Kenneth Flowers, a preacher from Detroit, a student government president from Morgan State college,…
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…
Some amazing new population numbers. First Ynet gives the “happy news:” Jews are an “overwhelming majority” in Israel. 75 percent. Not so fast, bub. You didn’t include the Occupied Territories, which Ynet charmingly describes as the Israeli empire. (And I…
Some amazing new population numbers. First Ynet gives the “happy news:” Jews are an “overwhelming majority” in Israel. 75 percent. Not so fast, bub. You didn’t include the Occupied Territories, which Ynet charmingly describes as the Israeli empire. (And I…