Howard Berman, chairman of House Foreign Affairs, has issued the following defiant statement about the fresh news of negotiations between Hamas and Fatah to form a unity government: “The U.S. Congress will find it impossible to work constructively with any…
Earlier today we reported that Israel lobbyist David Makovsky in testimony to Congress had urged Israel’s use of “appropriate biometrics” as a means of screening Palestinians at Israeli border crossings so as to shorten lines. He recommended this as a…
At DailyKos, “Rbguy” is providing excellent coverage of a post-Gaza hearing conducted by the House subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia (under the Foreign Affairs committee). Here’s part of his report on David Makovsky, the cheerful guy from WINEP,…
Jeff Ballabon, lately appointed a CBS vice president for communications, writing a few months ago: Palestinians simply are not interested in or ready for the creation of a state. Stephen Douglas, the Democratic senator, speaking in Jonesboro, Illinois, in September…
Another important sign that Obama is changing the water in the aquarium. The Israel lobby is openly derided in this piece on Foreign Policy’s Cable, which, echoing the new conventional wisdom in Washington, virtually mocks Dennis Ross’s lack of a…
Avigdor Lieberman may have come in a surprising third in the elections in Israel, but he knows where the ultimate power base is. So today he has an op-ed in the New York Jewish Week trying to overcome the criticism…
Today’s letter from the office of the Director of National Intelligence selecting Chas Freeman, a man of the world, as director of the National Intelligence Council… Steve Clemons says the thrashing of the anti-Freemanites reveals the weakness of the lobby:…
This sort of story makes me sick. Here’s Marcia Kramer of WCBS television in New York carrying the water for the Israel lobby by turning on Hillary Clinton for her statements pressing for Israel to speed up aid to Gaza….
Al-Jazeera has a two-part exploration of the Israel lobby. Idrees Ahmad points out that you’d never see this on the BBC. Or on PBS. Steve Walt is interviewed, so are Jim Lobe, Anatol Lieven, and Ilan Pappe. Wow. Meantime, Mounir…