National Review editor Rich Lowry joins Freeman-bashing: It’s not pro-democracy protesters but Israel that is the most intense object of Freeman’s ire. He blames the Jewish state for the deadly hatred directed at it, and at us. He thinks we…
Writes a friend: “Cognitive dissonance” isn’t the same for the Israel loyalists as it is for most other Americans. They see Israel as part of America, and America as a member of Israel’s family. Nothing anyone does for Israel while…
One of the disgraces of the Chas Freeman case is that his enemies dare not speak their true agenda. As Steve Walt has pointed out, they are Israel-firsters; their litmus test is No pressure on Israel. Are they plain about…
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…
Paul Woodward at War in Context has a good rundown of all the Chas Freeman attacks and of Freeman’s defenders too. It is a great battle–a test of the power of the Israel lobby. The Saudi Arabia money is a…
Your Israel lobby tax dollars at work. Greg Sargent reports that Chuck Schumer is spending political capital to block Freeman… This comes as the White House is signaling that they may not be willing to go to bat for Freeman….
Yesterday I had an exchange with a good friend who said that he has friends living in Israel and while it might be the fairest way to go to have a one-state solution, it would involve great bloodshed. Steve Walt…
Jim Lobe has a devastatingly-smart analysis of the new State Department, including the bad news that Dennis Ross seems to have legs, on the 7th floor, guiding Iran policy, and that Hillary is reading neocon thinktank papers. Ideas, ideas, ideas–the…
A few months back, my friend Mark and I exposed the pseudonymous conservative columnist Spengler as the nom-de-plume of a LaRouchie-cum-neocon musician/trader named David P. Goldman. We decided to unmask him because author investigations are fun, and also because Spengler…