The FY2009 omnibus appropriations bill hasn’t gotten too much attention on this site. Until now. This is because Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) is attempting to tie passage of this essential bill to a congressional endorsement of anti-Palestinian bigotry. The wonderful…
The liberal end of the Israel lobby was on fine display yesterday when the Israel Policy Forum hosted Israeli Minister Isaac Herzog to discuss “Gaza Challenges: Overseeing humanitarian assistance to Gaza.” Herzog is from the Labor party and serves as…
Another blow to the 2-state solution: it empowers Netanyahu and his anything-goes chorus. A major embarrassment to Obama. Freeman left the State Department years ago for the private sector and was convinced to take this job. The reason they wanted…
National Review editor Rich Lowry joins Freeman-bashing: It’s not pro-democracy protesters but Israel that is the most intense object of Freeman’s ire. He blames the Jewish state for the deadly hatred directed at it, and at us. He thinks we…
Writes a friend: “Cognitive dissonance” isn’t the same for the Israel loyalists as it is for most other Americans. They see Israel as part of America, and America as a member of Israel’s family. Nothing anyone does for Israel while…
One of the disgraces of the Chas Freeman case is that his enemies dare not speak their true agenda. As Steve Walt has pointed out, they are Israel-firsters; their litmus test is No pressure on Israel. Are they plain about…
Steve Rosen, the former AIPAC operative who is charged with being a spy for Israel, is pressuring the Israel Policy Forum to get rid of its policy analyst MJ Rosenberg because Rosenberg is standing up for a good man, Chas…
The Jewish political leadership in the U.S. grows ever more conservative, so as to protect Israel from any criticism. From the Jerusalem Post: [M]ore important, he [an American Jewish leadership official, anonymous] maintained, was that US President Barack Obama was…
Paul Woodward at War in Context has a good rundown of all the Chas Freeman attacks and of Freeman’s defenders too. It is a great battle–a test of the power of the Israel lobby. The Saudi Arabia money is a…