Without an Iran deal, the world could have seen a nuclear exchange in the Middle East. President Obama wiretapped Israeli PM Netanyahu not out of political rivalry but to stave off the threat to world peace posed by Netanyahu and his American allies trying to sabotage the deal.
Just when the Israel lobby was getting back to its feet after Iran Deal, Obama administration wiretaps reveal Israeli officials working with US Jewish groups against the deal. WSJ says Obama authorized taps as a serving a “compelling national security purpose.”
Finally the ‘NYT’ profiles a Palestinian shot by soldiers and quotes his family and Hamas standing up for him– because Ishaq Khalil Hassan was shot by Egyptians. The 136 Palestinians shot by Israeli soldiers can’t be humanized in this manner.
Michael Singh’s film “Valentino’s Ghost,” which shows that anti-Muslim and anti-Arab images in popular culture are part of an imperialist/Zionist propaganda effort, has itself suffered from that orthodoxy, rejected by PBS.
It is incontrovertible that Israel commits war crimes and acts of state terrorism. If anything, Breaking the Silence doesn’t go nearly far enough. But the New York Times manages to diminish its work
Breaking the Silence is a courageous Israeli veterans’ group that should have been the subject of a NYT profile for the last ten years. It’s only getting to the story now, with Jodi Rudoren back in the U.S.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is saluted as a “mensch” by Israel supporters thankful that he is trying to save the Republican party from Donald Trump and also advance a neoconservative program inside the party
Rightwinger Eugene Kontorovich has had the run of the Washington Post and the New York Times op-ed page to defend Israel, but the papers fail to state that the Northwestern University law professor is also a settler on the West Bank. And he’s praised Nadia Matar, who has called for the assassination of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
David Folkenflik of NPR reports on Sheldon Adelson’s purchase of a Las Vegas newspaper and says his political concern is the “hospitality industry,” covering up Adelson’s demonstrated devotion to Israel as a political cause.
The Brookings Institution acts as an arm of the Israel lobby when it convenes a secret panel on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions that surely opposes a campaign Israel’s PM has called an “existential” threat. Jeffrey Goldberg wisecracks that the panel is the “Dimona of panels.”