Joe the Plumber was asked if a vote for Obama was a vote for the “death of Israel,” and he said, “I agree.” I think at a Republican National Committee event. So Joe is now the official id of the…
Israeli soldiers are protecting the Palestinian olive harvest. About time. I guess this means we are getting the one-state solution whether we like it or not. I’m not being visionary. This reflects two large realities: Israel insists on having a…
Sheldon Adelson has lost $16 billion this year, ABC News reports. What will happen to Birthright, Freedom’s Watch, and the Republican Jewish Coalition ads that say Obama will bring back the Holocaust?
I remain baffled why the mainstream media isn’t doing stories about the war for the Jews between McCain and Obama, because the rhetoric is so extreme on the Republican side. The latest Republican Jewish Coalition ad presents Israel and the…
Yesterday I teed off on a New Yorker profile of Hank Greenberg that I felt had provided cover to Greenberg’s Israel-centered views of the Middle East. I don’t keep up on the New Yorker, but a friend sent along the…
Here’s the triangulation I’ve been talking about. Today Jeffrey Goldberg has a piece attacking the Aish HaTorah sponsored “Obsession” DVD, which the Clarion Fund is distributing to swing states, as a hate video. And the Council on American-Islamic Relations is…
The Times reports that an email is circulating among Jewish voters in Pennsylvania equating a vote for Obama with a vote for Hitler. Because of Ahmadinejad, presumably. That is the same link that emigre to Israel Gil Ronen has made,…
Here is Ira Glunts, a former IDF soldier, challenging Obama adviser and “soft neocon” Dennis Ross at Colgate University last week or so about Israel attacking Iran. “At 53:10 Ross says something like Israel is going to do what Israel…
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…