(FYI: This is a post about the Israel lobby and our public life.) Lincoln wrote the following brilliant lines in 1858, at the time of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. This scholar here believes it to be a fragment of a speech….
At left is a picture of Malcolm Hoenlein (holding the mike), one of the stalwarts of the Israel lobby as head of the Conference of Presidents, making nice to Avigdor Lieberman 2 years back. And that’s no surprise. American Jewish…
Late last night I wrote about Jim Lobe’s exchange with Richard Perle over Perle’s evasion of neoconservative responsibility for the Iraq war. Well, here is Lobe’s excellent blogpost on Perle’s snakiness, from a month back. It includes citations of two…
AC writes: Take a look at this critique of Waltz with Bashir by Gideon Levy in Haaretz. Look at his diction — bloodthirsty soldiers, shelling women and children, propaganda, fraud and deceit, the lines about the Holocaust and victims –…
Glenn Greenwald’s enthusiastic demolition of Jeffrey Goldberg for hurling antisemitism charges at anyone he disagrees with is surely one of the best blogposts I’ve ever read, and a reason that the blogosphere is replacing the MSM. Writing/discourse doesn’t get better…
Waching C-Span just now, I caught some of Richard Perle’s denial of neoconservatism’s influence in an event at the Nixon Center yesterday and had a few impressions. Perle said that the reason for the Iraq war was the Bush administration’s…
‘They [team Obama] might as well have appointed Bandar”–anonymous Israel lobbyist on the choice of Ambassador Chas Freeman to be National Intelligence Council boss, according to Ben Smith on politico. The commenters are crazed over this.
A Canadian activist says that the University of Toronto is trying to squelch the divestment movement there by denying pro-Palestinian groups a room to meet in. The president, provost and vice provost of the school are suddenly involved in the…
Throw a bone, a big one, to the Israel lobby. It looks like Dennis Ross is going to be handling the Iran portfolio under Hillary Clinton. This picture is his other portfolio: it shows Ross presenting the report of the…