Here is Rahm Emanuel sounding neocon themes of regime change and Israel-first, right after the Lebanon war started in 2006. In this speech on the House floor, he justifies Israeli militarism: The so-called democratically elected governments on the West Bank…
Robert Fisk in the Independent credits the Israeli archives for disclosing the secrets that gave way to the revisionist New History, and says that Arab governments being closed, the other side must rely on oral testimony. Fisk ennobles the new…
I wonder if the Rahm Emanuel story was not leaked to make Jewish voters feel more gemutlich (that’s kin, in German/Yiddish, I believe) about Obama. Emanuel’s father was apparently in the Irgun, the Zionist movement that used terrorist methods to…
Here is Fox News harassing Rashid Khalidi. Khalidi has never been so prominent as he is now. An author who has sought to get his important ideas and books out to the multitudes wears a muzzle. When he has nothing…
editorial in Washington Post on Khalidi. “Idiot Wind.” Good hedline. Though it contains the usual prevarication about Khalidi’s “complex” views. The only good Palestinian is a mute Palestinian. The only good Palestinian valorizes ethnic cleansing of his people. And some…
The question is whether the Khalidi flap will lead to a larger discussion of Palestinian human rights. I think it will, inevitably. But for the meantime we get this kind of judicious tweezerish on the one hand beancounterish stuff from…
Ron Kampeas has a good piece on JTA “clear”-ing Rashid Khalidi of the charge that he was a PLO spokesman. Kampeas points out that the PLO has been the internationally-accepted representative of the Palestinians since 1988, and that Khalidi wasn’t…
I asked a smart friend what he thought noteworthy about the Khalidi controversy: “I suppose the vilification of Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians (‘neo-Nazis’?) that not one American public figure but Powell has said a word about.” Oh my. Brings tears…
One of the gratifying things about being on my side of the Israel/Palestine issue–the Let Us Be Fair to Palestinians side–is the strong impression that the arrow, as they say in basketball, is going our way. Check out this recent…