Here’s Abraham Foxman’s worldview: Israeli efforts to offer concessions to achieve peace have produced more extremism and violence on the other side. Is that what you want, America? Permanent war?
For the racism/Orientalism file. Daniel Pipes says that Avigdor Lieberman’s speech left him “elated.” It said, “Israel is back.” And this guy has standing? Yes. I saw him at a jammed Philadelphia synagogue that would never invited the great Noam…
Jeff Blankfort calls this Jewish McCarthyism, and I’m hard pressed to deny it. After Gaza–yes, Gaza changed everything–a Bay Area pro-Israel guy called Jim Sinkinson made a collection of angry letters re Israel published in the Berkeley Daily Planet and…
This is how screwed up American Jewish leadership is. Democratic congresswoman Shelley Berkley says she calls Mort Klein of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) before she decides how to vote on bills about the Middle East. Well: Here is…
Michael Scheuer at antiwar.com, reports on a debate at Georgetown University last week hosted by the Doha Foundation. Scheuer and Avraham Burg argued for the U.S. to finally get tough on Israel, and Alan Dershowitz and Dore Gold arguing agin…
Jack Ross writes: There’s a problem neither you or any of the reporters pointed out – it’s Netanyahu, not Lieberman, who’s more intractably opposed to a two state solution. It is precisely Lieberman’s support for a Greece-Turkey style population transfer…
Here is a great video on Avigdor Lieberman from J Street. “Stand up for your values,” it tells American Jews. Who is standing up? The video notes that David Harris of the American Jewish Committee was upset with Lieberman, but…
Bruce Wolman, who is taking over the mental-rock-breaking labors of this site today, notes that three American congressmen, Gary Ackerman, Brad Sherman, and Eliot Engel, all think that the new Netanyahu government is great, per Haaretz. Meanwhile, Lieberman had his…
I’m keeping a catalogue of answers to the Dershofoxmanitz question, Why do we single out Israel amid the sea of man’s inhumanity to man? Here’s Julian Kossoff in the Telegraph, with another good answer: the cynosure answer, Israel/Palestine is at…