Does anyone care to read this man’s prevarications? I don’t think I’m going to. Thankfully this sort of useless activity, explaining away the neocons and Iraq, will preoccupy the dangerous Perle for the rest of his life.
Moral philosopher and fabled lover Bernard Henri-Levy, at the New Republic: Not being a military expert, I will abstain from judging whether the Israeli bombardments of Gaza could be better directed, less intense.
I need to perseverate about Charlie Rose’s show the other night. Both Robert Simon and Andrea Mitchell, his two media-elite Jewish guests that night, offered the same bluntly-honest statement about Israel’s motivation: It is political in that Israel doesn’t know…
Glenn Greenwald has another great piece in Salon attacking the lockstep support for Israel in Congress in the face of massacres. The problem is that the astute Greenwald still has no explanation of why we are experiencing this meltdown in…
Jim Lobe says that it looks like Dennis Ross is to be the “czar” of Middle East policy under Hillary. This is staggeringly bad news. And illustrative of the fact that neoconservatism by one of its more amenable names is…
If you’re an idiot but pro-Israel, you can get a paid platform. If you’re sharply critical of Israel, it is extremely difficult to get paid to express those views. (Name me all the anti-Zionists in media jobs.)
Obama is said to have chosen Dennis Ross, Richard Holbrooke and Richard Haass as his envoys re Iran, Afghanistan/Pakistan, and Israel/Palestine respectively. And the Israel lobby is just another lobby. It is not that some Jews can’t be fairminded. And…
Robert Fisk says 600 Palestinian dead in a week represents “atrocity on the level of the Balkan wars of the 1990s.” He’s on to something. The unkillable neocons are looking at the same violence and of course blaming Hamas and…
JTA: Dennis Ross said the United States should back a cease-fire in Gaza only if it ensures that Hamas “can’t rebuild.” “We want some stability,” said Ross, a former top Middle East negotiator in the Clinton administration, in a talk…