YNET is reporting that past Israeli foreign ministers do not think that incoming Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will hurt Israel’s international relations. They say relations are not based on Lieberman, but the government he is representing. Good point. Dovish former…
A tipster named Ben writes the following: Based on The New York Times article you linked yesterday, it looks like there’s some image-scrubbing at work to ensure that Avigdor Lieberman doesn’t get the full Jorg Haider treatment if he becomes…
The New York Times on Avigdor Lieberman, who comes across as misunderstood, tractable… an often indelicate and outspoken politician whose threatening language aimed at Arabs arouses suspicion and some trepidation abroad… Mr. Lieberman ran a contentious election campaign that many…
I haven’t always been the biggest fan of Uriel Heilman, but I have to say he does a great job in his JTA article “Who is Bibi trying to fool?”. Heilman presents a basic fact that the much of the…
Sydney Morning Herald gets the Chas Freeman story in this great editorial: In the United States, President Obama’s nominee as chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Chas Freeman, has just withdrawn, citing a campaign against him by the “Israel lobby”……
I can only do this site with help from genius friends. It’s social media. One of them sent me some links and comment this morning: Here is some more good stuff on Schumer’s closet-neocon agenda from Glenn Greenwald (overlapping with…
From the Ha’aretz article “World takes dim view of Lieberman in FM post”: “The ‘Lieberman question’ continually arises in State Department briefings for journalists and in other forums. And opinion columns in the American press have presented Lieberman in an…
Why is accused spy Steve Rosen leading the charge against Chas Freeman, Obama’s pick for the National Intelligence Council? Here’s a great piece in the New Jersey Jewish News yesterday by Douglas Bloomfield, a former AIPAC staffer, on what’s at…
(Banner from the Israel Beytenu website) No, it’s not official yet, but what seemed like an odd joke just a week and half ago, is looking more and more like a done deal. Ha’aretz reports that Avigdor “minorities are the…